Also see the Dianne Widzinski Visiting Fellows at the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies.
Céline Béraud
WCEE Affiliated Scholar (Department of Sociology, U-M)
Céline Béraud is a sociologist and professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris), where she holds the chair in Gender and Religion. She is an alumna of the École Normale Supérieure (Paris-Saclay), where she studied economics and sociology. After obtaining her PhD in the sociology of religion under the supervision of Danièle Hervieu-Léger at EHESS, she worked as a lecturer at the University of Caen (2007-2016). In 2016, she obtained her habilitation degree at Sciences Po and joined EHESS. Her main current research topics are gender and sexual issues within Catholicism, as well as religion in public institutions such as prisons and hospitals. She was recently appointed to chair the research commission investigating sexual violence committed by Abbé Pierre, a well-known French priest and social activist. Béraud has published Une religion parmi d’autres. Le catholicisme en prison et à l’hôpital (PUF, 2025), Les géométries variables de l’aumônerie musulmane (prison, hôpital, armée) (PUAM, 2024, with Claire de Galembert, Benjamin Farhat, and Anne Fornerod), Le catholicisme français à l’épreuve des scandales sexuels (Seuil, 2021), and La bataille du genre. Du mariage pour tous à la PMA (Fayard, 2021).
Anna Yefimova
WCEE Research Fellow [for Ukrainian PhD Students], Winter 2025
Anna Yefimova is a PhD student in the “Psychology of Personal, Social, and Organizational Development” program at the University of Education Management of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She holds degrees in Psychology and Global Economics. Her research interests revolve around the social and psychological impacts of forced migration on individuals, families, and communities. She is a graduate student researcher at the university under the supervision of Dr. Oleksandra Bryukhovetska. Yefimova conducts training for refugees, students, and postgraduates who have experienced forced migration as a result of the war in Ukraine, and she has several scientifically significant publications on the topic. In her free time, Yefimova enjoys outdoor activities, taking cooking classes, volunteering with Ukrainian refugee groups, and spending time with family and friends.
Halyna Bodnar
WCEE Nonresidential Scholar, 2025
IU-Ukraine Nonresidential Scholars Program
Halyna Bodnar is associate professor of contemporary Ukrainian history at Ivan Franko National University in Lviv, and a member of the Ukrainian Association of Oral History. Her research interests include history of everyday life, oral history, history and memory of Soviet Ukraine, the Revolution of Dignity and the volunteer movement in Ukraine, oral history of unfolding events in the Russo-Ukrainian War, and memory studies. Bodnar is the author of the monograph Lviv. Daily Life of the City through the Eyes of Migrants from Villages, 1950‒80 (Lviv, 2010). Among her other publications are the co-edited volume On Dignity. Volunteer Movement in Ukraine 2013–2017 (Lviv, 2018. 816 pp.) and Collection of Memories: Maidan from the First Person. Regional level. Lviv‒Chernihiv Region (Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, Kyiv, 2018).
Hanna Shvindina
CREES Nonresidential Scholar, 2025
IU-Ukraine Nonresidential Scholars Program
Hanna Shvindina is an associate professor at the American University Kyiv (AUK), where she also serves as the Academic Director of the Global Management Program and the Head of the Institutional Review Board at the School of Management. She holds a PhD in Environmental Economics and a Dr. Sci. (Dr. Hab.) in Management from Sumy State University. She is an accomplished academic and practitioner, having received prestigious international awards, including the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (2015-2016, University of Montpellier) and Fulbright Scholarship (2018-2019, Purdue University). Since October 2024, Shvindina has been a fellow in the Ukraine Research Network@ZOiS, where she researches female leadership in times of crisis. In 2018, she co-founded and became the CEO of the NGO Lifelong Learning Centre in Sumy. Under her leadership, the organization has successfully implemented numerous social projects focused on adult education, civic engagement, and psychoeducation initiatives, contributing significantly to community development and resilience.
