Fellow 2024

INDEX-IWM - Autumn 2024 4 September – 4 November 2024

Kristina Hook is an anthropologist and scholar-practitioner specialising in genocides and mass atrocities, Ukrainian identity, and Ukraine-Russia relations, past and present. Her research contextualises the 1932-1933 Holodomor’s generational impact and memory in modern Ukraine, including the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war (2014-present).

Project: Genocide, Memory, Identity: Holodomor Narratives during Russia's Full-Scale War against Ukraine

As a major topic of her research agenda, Kristina’s work contextualises the 1932-1933 Holodomor’s generational impact and memory in modern Ukraine, including the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war (2014-present). Kristina has written a forthcoming book that explores the events of the Holodomor from the anthropological perspective and its central importance to questions of Ukrainian national identity, memory, and solidarity. Drawing from multi-year ethnographic fieldwork since 2015, interviewing across 35 locations in Ukraine, and archival work, this book is the result of more than a decade of research. Kristina used her fall 2024 INDEX residency to finish the book manuscript.

Drawing from multi-year ethnographic fieldwork since 2015, interviewing across 33 locations in Ukraine, and archival work, she is writing a book that explores the events of the Holodomor from the anthropological perspective and its central importance to questions of Ukrainian national identity, memory, and solidarity.

Kristina Hook

Dr. Kristina Hook is Assistant Professor of Conflict Management at Kennesaw State University (Atlanta, USA). She is an anthropologist and scholar-practitioner specialising in genocides and mass atrocities, Ukrainian identity, and Ukraine-Russia relations, past and present. Her research has been supported by U.S. National Science Foundation, Fulbright, USAID, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships.

Her work has appeared in numerous peer-reviewed and media outlets and been cited by the International Court of Justice, United Nations, NATO, Parliamentary Assembly of Europe, U.S. government, and others. In 2024, Dr. Hook was a top-three finalist for the Conference-USA Professor of the Year. Dr. Hook received her joint PhD in anthropology and peace studies from the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Anthropology Department. She is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center.