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Tatsiana Shchurko serves as Assistant Professor of Instruction and Undergraduate Studies Director in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. A queer feminist activist from Belarus, she brings prior teaching experience from The Ohio State University and implements bell hooks' pedagogy of freedom through collaborative, critically engaged classrooms that foster interdisciplinary social analysis.
Her research centers anti-colonial feminist theory examining imperialism across Europe, Eurasia, and the United States. She investigates transnational feminist histories connecting U.S. Black women's activism with Eurasian knowledge production, exploring Black feminist solidarities that inform contemporary anti-imperialist movements. Current projects include a book supported by a 2023 ACLS Fellowship and the digital archive "The Archive Revisited: Black Feminist Internationalism and Eurasian Knowledge Production" with integrated teaching resources.
Shchurko's publications reveal consistent engagement with transnational feminist theory, Black internationalism, and postsocialist studies. Her work critically analyzes Eurasian borderlands, Soviet-era encounters, and modern protests through feminist lenses, bridging historical analysis with movements like Black Lives Matter and Belarusian uprisings. This scholarship demonstrates how transnational solidarities and anti-imperialist practices emerge from interconnected global feminist struggles across temporal and geopolitical divides.
She has received the following scientific awards:
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2023)
As Undergraduate Studies Director, Shchurko oversees academic programming and student advising while curating department initiatives like the Spring 2025 "Transnational Care" event series. Her leadership integrates research innovation with pedagogical development through digital projects and cross-disciplinary teaching resources.
