Olga is a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, SWPS University in Warsaw. She is a PI of “The Impact of War on Social Movements in Europe” (2023/51/D/HS6/01835) and “The Relationship between Social Movements and Political Parties for the Democratic Representation of Social Groups in Europe” (2021/40/C/HS6/00229) projects funded by Poland’s National Science Centre. She studies social movements, their interactions with political parties, as well as political representation of social groups, political and social inequalities.

She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences). Olga cooperated with the Foundation “Open Society”, the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation and the Institute of World Policy (Ukraine), The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and The Broker (The Netherlands), The Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration and Democracy (Hungary). She was a visiting scholar at WZB Berlin Social Science Center (Germany) and the University of Toronto (Canada).

Recent publications:

• • Zelinska, O. (2024). Protest Mobilization by Ukrainians Abroad, 2013–2023. In The Palgrave Handbook of Non-State Actors in East-West Relations (pp. 457–472). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40546-4_87
  • Zelinska, O., & Revtiuk, Y. (2023). Why a Euromaidan movement party never emerged: a field theory approach. Acta Politica. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00317-3
  • Zelinska, O. (2023). Influential allies and grassroots movement mobilization: Ukraine’s Maidan, 2013–2014. International Sociology, 38(3), 334–352. https://doi.org/10.1177/02685809231166575

Olga’s CV

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Contact details:

SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Chodakowska 19/31

03-815 Warsaw Poland

www.swps.pl

ozelinska[at]swps.edu.pl