Dr. Gražina Bielousova
Research areas
European Studies
Comparative Politics and Political Sociology
Political Theory
Additional info
gbielousova@gmail.com
Dr. Gražina Bielousova defended her PhD dissertation in Religious Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Duke University (US) in 2022. Before that, she taught a variety of compulsory and elective subjects in critical humanities and social sciences at LCC International University as well as at International Comparative Studies department at Duke. Currently she is an associate lecturer in political sociology at University College London as well as a postdoctoral researcher at Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science. Her postdoctoral project centers on the leftist feminist thought in Eastern Europe.
Dr. Bielousova while studying at Duke also obtained Certificate in College Teaching and was awarded Bass Instructional Fellowship and Preparing Future Faculty Fellowship.
She comments on various social and political events on her social media accounts and writes for various online outlets (Nara.lt, Lrt.lt, Bernardinai.lt).
Dr. Bielousova is a member of ASEEES (Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies), AWSS (Association of Women in Slavic Studies), as well as AABS (Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies).
Research interests
Intersections of race, religion, and gender in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe in Western imagination, media, and foreign policy
Feminism in Eastern Europe
Leftist political thought in Eastern Europe
Publications
Bielousova, G. (2022) Western Disorientations: The Vanishing East of South America and Eastern Europe, Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis
Bielousova, G. (2022). Gendered Memories: The Use of Pieta in Lithuanian Commemorative Monuments to Victims of Soviet Regime, Lituanus, 67
Bielousova, G. (2009). Breaking bread in a hungry world: Eucharistic imagination in a Time of Crisis, LCC Liberal Arts Studies, 2.
