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Anna Chebotarova

Senior Research Fellow (part time)
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Summary

Anna Chebotarova is a sociologist specialising in collective memory, identity, and societal dynamics in wartime, with a regional focus on Ukraine and Eastern Europe. 

She holds a PhD in Area Studies from the University of Oslo. Anna works as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Oslo, teaching Ukrainian language, culture, and history. She is also a Researcher at NUPI on the project “From ability to defend to willingness to defend – What can Norway learn from Ukraine?”. 

She has published on topics including collective memory in Ukraine, the politics of history after Euromaidan, and regional diversity in Ukrainian identity formation.

Expertise

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Europe
  • Migration
  • Nation-building
  • Nationalism

Education

2025 PhD in Area Studies, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo
2009 MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
2008 MA in History and Sociology, Ivan Franko National University, Lviv, Ukraine

Work Experience

2026 - Senior Lecturer, ILOS UiO
2025 - Senior Research Fellow (part time), NUPI
2021-2025 Doctoral Research Fellow, ILOS UiO
2015-2021 Project administrator, research assistant, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
2012-2022 Researcher, Center for Urban History in East-Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine
2009-2012 Project coordinator, Polin Museum, Warsaw, Poland

Aktivitet

Research project
2025 - 2026 (Ongoing)

From ability to defend to willingness to defend – What can Norway learn from Ukraine?

What does it take to create a willingness to defend your country? ...

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
  • Conflict
  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • NATO
  • Foreign policy
  • Europe
  • The Nordic countries
  • Conflict
Articles
Articles

Research group for Security and Defence

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • NATO
  • Cyber
  • Intelligence
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Articles
Articles

Research group for Security and Defence

  • Defence
  • Security policy
  • Terrorism and extremism
  • NATO
  • Cyber
  • Intelligence
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