Maryna Shevtsova is a EUTOPIA Postdoctoral fellow and Visiting Professor at the Sociology Department, University of Ljubljana and FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven. She was a Swedish Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gender Studies Department at the University of Lund in 2020 and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florida, USA 2018/19. Her most recent publications include LGBTI Politics and Value Change in Ukraine and Turkey: Exporting Europe? (Routledge 2021), and edited volumes LGBTQ+ Activism in Central and Eastern Europe. Resistance, Representation, and Identity (with Radzhana Buyantueva, Palgrave Macmillan 2019), and LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective: Persecution, Asylum, and Integration (with Arzu Guler and Deniz Venturi, Springer, 2019).