Tamara Martsenyuk holds a PhD in Sociology and is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine. She studied and conducted research in the US, Canada, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, and Hungary. Tamara teaches Introduction to Gender Studies, Gender and Politics, Masculinity and Men’s Studies, Social Problems in Ukraine and the World, and more. After her evacuation from Kyiv due to the full-scale invasion in the spring of 2022, Tamara was hosted by Free University Berlin. Since July 2022, she is a visiting scholar at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, German.
Her research interests relate to gender and social structure, including women’s participation in protests and women’s access to the military. Between 2015–2023, Tamara (and her research team) conducted five sociological studies called Invisible Battalion, demonstrating the successes and challenges of gender equality implementation in the Ukrainian armed forces and military education, the status of female veterans, and the problem of sexual harassment in the military.
She authored more than 100 academic publications, chapters of books and textbooks, particularly in Ukrainian: Gender for All: Challenging Stereotypes (2017), Why Not Be Afraid of Feminism (2018), Defenders of the Galaxy: Power and Crisis in the Male World (2020). She authored chapters in Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine (2012), New Imaginaries: Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine’s Cultural Paradigm (2015), and more. Her papers have been published in the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, Problems of Post-Communism, and others. Tamara is a member of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN).
Tamara is engaged in educational activism and conducts training for a broad target audience: journalists, think tanks, civil servants, politicians, civic activists, and more. Tamara is the author of a popular online course on Prometheus titled Women and Men: Gender for All. As she believes in public sociology – science and research for social change – she is constantly involved in various international research or teaching projects.
