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Dr Taras Fedirko is a Lecturer in Organised Crime and Corruption at the University of Glasgow’s School of Social and Political Science, with a joint appointment in Sociology and Central & East European Studies. He is also a Fellow at the Centre on Armed Groups (Geneva) and co-editor of the political & legal anthropology column in Anthropology News. Fedirko holds a PhD in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from Durham University, with earlier training in geography (BSc, Ivan Franko Lviv National University) and East European studies (MA, University of Bologna).
His research focuses on the political economy of war in Ukraine since 2014, exploring transformative effects of conflict on elites and alliances. Earlier work examined oligarchy, corporate resistance to regulation, and the transformation of Ukrainian journalism post-Maidan. Key interests include media ethics, state-building, and historical sociology.
Recent publications include Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power (2024, co-edited) and articles on Ukrainian state formation, war economy, and media censorship. He has received a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021–2022) and an ESRC grant for studying actors in Ukraine’s political economy of war.
Teaching includes the course Crime and Corruption in the Former Soviet Union. Fedirko supervises research in political economy of conflict, anthropology of media, and qualitative methods in Eastern Europe.
