Postdoctoral Fellow
About
As an environmental and political sociologist specializing in Russia, Liudmila Listrovaya's research spans environmental inequality and governance, authoritarian populism, and war-prompted migration. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Oregon in 2024, during which she also completed a six-month internship with the United Nations Environment Programme in Geneva.
Dr. Listrovaya's current research projects include exploring the intersection of authoritarian populism and environmental issues in Russia, focusing on how the history of internal colonialism and ethnicity discourse has shaped environmental inequality and its perceptions. Another key project examines the war in Ukraine and its consequences, specifically regime-prompted outmigration from Russia. For this, she conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Georgia and collected interviews with Russian political migrants. During the fellowship, she will transform her dissertation into a book manuscript and continue her research on the consequences of the war in Ukraine. She plans to expand this research into a comparative study of Russian and Ukrainian war-time migrants, focusing on their pathways to integration and peacebuilding in host states. Her work has been published in Qualitative Sociology and Society and Natural Resources.
