Kristina Hook

Kristina Hook is an assistant professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University’s School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding, and Development. As an anthropologist specializing in genocides, she has conducted extensive, multi-year fieldwork across Ukraine since 2015. A recipient of a 2024/25 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, her new book is titled When the Ukrainian Sun Rises: From the Holodomor to the Frontlines in Moscow’s Century of Violence (2026). She has published more than twenty peer-reviewed works and over forty policy reports and public commentaries. Her research on Russia's war against Ukraine has been cited by the International Court of Justice, United Nations, NATO, the Parliamentary Assembly of Europe, and the US government. She is currently a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.