Mariya Rohava
Maryia Rohava is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oslo and a Marie Curie fellow in the project “Post-Soviet Tensions”. Rohava completed a research Master’s degree in European Studies at Maastricht University and a Bachelos's degree in Political Science from the European Humanities University in Lithuania. She was awarded a ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius PhD grant “Trajectories of Change” and a Civil Society Scholar Award from the Open Society Foundations for her fieldwork in Belarus. Rohava's doctoral thesis focuses on the aspects of everyday nationalism in authoritarian societies. Before joining the University of Oslo, she worked as a research assistant on multilevel governance of the European Union at the European Institute of Public Administration in Barcelona and participated in election observation missions in Lithuania, Georgia and Belarus.