My name is Mariia Chetverikova, and I am a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago. I am interested in Global and Transnational Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge, and International Migration.
My dissertation studies the integration of post-Soviet scholars into U.S. academia after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. I treat this event as an exogenous shock, analyzing how migrant scholars navigate expectations of American academia and how disciplines reconfigure their social orders in response.
At UIC, I also teach several undergraduate sociology courses and collaborate on Public Sociology projects, most recently a community-based study on mental health crisis response in Chicago.
Before coming to UIC, I worked at International Memorial (2016–2023), an organization awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. There, I contributed to the creation of a digital archival database documenting over 100,000 individuals persecuted during Stalin’s repressions. This work continues to shape my interest in archives, memory, and the politics of knowledge.