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Dr. Maksym Yakovlyev

Dr. Maksym Yakovlyev

Dr. Maksym Yakovlyev is Director of School for Policy Analysis and Associate Professor at the Department of Politics at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy at which he also teaches for the Department of Sociology, Kyiv-Mohyla School of Public Administration, School of Public Health. He did his BA in social work, MA (with distinctions) and PhD in politics (2010).

Dr. Yakovlyev was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, University of Maastricht, University of Geneva, and taught at Corvinus University in Budapest, Comenius University of Bratislava, University of Helsinki. His research focuses on post-socialist social and cultural transformations, political concepts and ideologies, Ukrainian identity, the Donbas region, and the (post)modern Russian imperialism. He also has a passion for both qualitative and quantitative research methods and is active in translating books into Ukrainian (most recent translations: Erich Fromm “Escape from Freedom”, James Mace “Communism and the Dilemmas of National Liberation…”, Richard Florida “Creative Class” etc).