Received Sylff fellowship in 2020
Academic supervisor : Dr. Geneviève Zubrzycki
Current affiliation : University of Michigan
Liudmila Listrovaya is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Russian
Politics at the University of Michigan’s Weiser Center for Europe and
Eurasia. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of
Oregon. Her research examines how authoritarian governance
reshapes environments, societies, and migration patterns across
post-Soviet spaces.
Her first line of research focuses on environmental inequality and
environmental politics in Russia. The second explores the
demographic and political consequences of the war in Ukraine,
including predatory conscription and the experiences of relokanti—
Russian political migrants. Supported by a SYLFF Dissertation
Fellowship, she conducted fieldwork in Russia that led to a published
article in Society and Natural Resources. Her broader work appears
in Qualitative Sociology, Environmental Sociology, and is forthcoming
in Social Forces.
Liudmila uses ethnographic and mixed qualitative methods to trace
how authoritarian systems produce and normalize inequality—
whether through environmental degradation or the management of
dissent. Her work contributes to scholarship in political and
environmental sociology, migration studies, and post-Soviet area
studies. She is currently developing book projects on environmental
injustice and migration in post-Soviet contexts.
https://www.listrovaya.com
