Mariia Burtseva

Mariia Burtseva is a PhD candidate in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta and a graduate research assistant at CIUS. She came to the institute as a visiting researcher via the University of Alberta’s Disrupted Ukrainian Scholars and Students (DUSS) initiative after the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Her research focuses on Ukrainian LGBTQI+ migration in Canada. Her interests include Ukrainian and Ukrainian Canadian studies, queer studies, oral history, and migration studies.