Dr. Liudmila Listrovaya

Biography

Liudmila Listrovaya is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan, specializing in environmental political sociology with a focus on Russia. Her research spans topics such as environmental inequality governance, authoritarian populism, and war-prompted migration. Liudmila received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Oregon in 2024. She has completed a six-month internship with the United Nations Environment Programme in Geneva. Her current research projects explore the intersection of authoritarian populism and environmental issues in Russia, analyzing how historical internal colonialism and ethnic discourse have shaped perceptions of environmental inequality. A key project investigates the consequences of the war in Ukraine, particularly the regime-prompted outmigration from Russia. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Georgia, she has collected interviews with Russian political migrants. Liudmila aims to transform her dissertation into a book manuscript that further examines the ramifications of the war in Ukraine and plans to expand her research into a comparative study of Russian and Ukrainian war-time migrants, focusing on their pathways to integration and peacebuilding in host states. Her work has been published in Qualitative Sociology and Society & Natural Resources.

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