Liudmila Listrovaya
WCEE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2024-26
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. At WCEE, she will transform her dissertation into a book manuscript and continue her research on the consequences of the war in Ukraine, further developing it into a comparative study of Russian and Ukrainian war-time migrants and their pathways to integration and peacebuilding in host states. Her research has been published in Qualitative Sociology and accepted for publication in Society and Natural Resources.
Education
- PhD, Sociology, University of Oregon, 2024
- MS, Sociology, University of Oregon, 2019
- Specialist of Cultural Studies in Chinese Culture, St. Petersburg State University, 2015
Awards and Honors
- Marvin E. Olsen Student Paper Award Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association, 2023
- Summer Dissertation Writing Grant, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2023
- David S. Easly Memorial Graduate Scholarship, University of Oregon, 2022-2023
- Graduate Fellowship for International Research, Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund, 2021-2022
- Civil Society in Russia Grant, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 2018-2019
- Young Leaders Scholarship, Northeast Asian Economic Forum, Hong Kong 2017
