Yana Volkova
Member since 2025
Leaders are those who change a system through words — words guided by sharp intellect and a kind heart. So, let’s lead the change!
Bio
Yana Volkova graduated from Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University (Ukraine) and obtained her PhD in Political Science in 2018. Her PhD thesis focused on Turkish nation-building and Turkey’s kin-state policy. As a participant of the Horizon 2020 project titled “Knowledge Exchange and Academic Cultures in the Humanities: Europe and the Black Sea Region,” she investigated the correlation between politics and knowledge flows among different European countries. Since 2022, she has been working as a visiting scholar at Queen’s University Belfast. Her current research interests encompass nationalism, nation-building, and discursive construction of national identity. Her ongoing project as part of the British Academy fellowship examines the process of Russian extraterritorial nation-building in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine.
