Trubina, Elena

Dr. Elena Trubina, since her arrival at UNC-Chapel Hill in January 2022, has contributed substantially to the Russian and East European studies curriculum at UNC at Chapel Hill in her role as a visiting lecturer and postdoctoral research scholar. She taught an advanced seminar (GLBL 490) in the UNC Curriculum in Global Studies for two years and co-organized a speaker series on “Civic Organizations, Higher Education, Democratic Commitments in a Globalized, Precarious, and Post-Truth World at War: Spotlighting Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the US”. She currently focuses on two projects: a collaboration with Michele Rivkin-Fish on “Russian Civil Society in Exile,” and an individual research study, “Human Rights and the Destruction and Reconstruction of Cities in an Age of Crisis” addressing the sociological aspects of the on-going destruction and reconstruction of cities in today’s world, with the focus on Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe.