Kateryna Shynkaruk

Kateryna Shynkaruk, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in Eastern European Politics, European Security and International Relations Theory at the Bush School of Government and Public Service in Washington, D.C. She is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Shynkaruk has over 15 years of experience working in academia, with think tanks and diplomatic missions. Her research interests cover Eastern Europe, Ukraine’s foreign and security policy and the role of ideas and culture in International Relations. She earned a Ph.D. in Global Political Affairs in 2011 from National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. Her doctoral thesis focused on emergence of Ukraine’s foreign policy identity as an international actor.

Shynkaruk has over 30 publications on the topics of post-communist transformations in Ukraine and across Eastern Europe. She was a team leader in several cross-country research projects on democratic reforms in East European countries, such as the European Integration Index for Eastern Partnership Countries. From 2013 to 2020, she worked as a political analyst at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and received several high-level awards from the Department of State, including the Superior Honor Award in 2018 and the Meritorious Honor Award in 2017. Between 2007 and 2013, she covered Ukraine’s foreign and security policy as a senior research fellow at the Kyiv-based Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting.