Viktoriya Sereda (sociologist) was a GIS Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute in 2016-2017 and in 2019-2020 where she worked on the following modules of the “MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine” project: “History and identity,” “Language,” “Religious Revolution,” and “Donbas and Crimea”. Her research focuses on urban sociology, nationalism, memory and migration studies. Viktoriya received her PhD in Sociology at the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2006, and MSc by Research in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh in 2001. In 2002-2015, she taught at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; and in 2015-2020 – at the Department of Sociology of the Ukrainian Catholic University. Since 2020 she is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology of the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Recently she participated in several sociological research projects: "Region, nation, and beyond. An Interdisciplinary and transcultural reconceptualization of Ukraine", “Displaced cultural spaces: current Ukrainian refugees” (both based at the University of St.Gallen), and “Present Ukrainian refugees: main reasons, strategies of resettlement, difficulties of adaptation.” She is an author of several articles published in Ukraine and abroad. Her recent publications include: Sereda, V. et al. (2019), “The Ukrainian Past and Present: Legacies, Memory and Attitudes,” in Regionalism without Regions. Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity. Eds. Myshlovska, O., Schmid, U. Baltimore: CEU Press, 57-109; Sereda, V. (2020), “‘Social Distancing’ and Hierarchies of Belonging: The Case of Displaced Population from Donbas and Crimea,” Europe-Asia Studies, 72:3, 404-431; Sereda, V. (2020), “In the Search of Belonging: Rethinking the Other in the Historical Memory of Ukrainian IDPs,” Ideology and Politics Journal, 2 (16), 83-107.