I am a political sociologist and an assistant professor 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.

I study social movements, their interactions with political parties, as well as political representation of social groups, political and social inequalities.

I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences). In the past, I have 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). I was a visiting scholar at WZB Berlin Social Science Center (Germany) and the University of Toronto (Canada).

Recent publications:

    • Zelinska, Olga. 2026. Political Parties, Transnational Ties, and Protest Mobilization: Euromaidan in Ukraine, 2013-2014. Problems of Post-Communism, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2025.2605573

      Revtiuk, Yevhen and Olga Zelinska. 2026. Toward Sustainability: Examining Economic Inequality and Political Trust in EU Countries. Sustainability, 18(1), 210; https://doi.org/10.3390/su18010210

      Zelinska, Olga. 2025. Policy Contention and the Movement-Party Relationship: Pro-choice Mobilization in Poland, 2020–21. Women’s Studies International Forum, 110, 103083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103083

      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

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Contact details:

SWPS University

Chodakowska 19/31

03-815 Warsaw Poland

www.swps.pl

ozelinska[at]swps.edu.pl