Olena Sobolieva

Olena Sobolieva is a Lecturer at the Department of Ethnology within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her work aligns with the department’s research clusters, including intimacy, gender, and kinship; mobility, belonging, and citizenship; medical anthropology; material culture and heritage; and critical ethnological knowledge production. She is based at the Ethnological Seminar (Münsterplatz 19, Basel) and can be contacted via email at olena.sobolieva@unibas.ch.

The department emphasizes regional expertise in Africa, Eastern Europe, Oceania, and the Afro-Atlantic, with a methodological focus on qualitative and interpretive approaches. Sobolieva’s role involves teaching and outreach, including initiatives like the Ethnographic Imagination Basel video podcast and the Basel Anthropology Papers journal. Her research interests intersect with themes such as transnationalism, social theory, and globalization.