Oksana Chorna

Education

since 2022 Affiliated fellow (Ph.D. student) at the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS)

2019–2022 MA in Democracy Studies, University of Regensburg

2014–2018 BA in Journalism, Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University



Work experience

since 2022 Research fellow at the University of Bremen and the Research Centre for East European Studies in the context of the CRC 1342 Global Dynamics of Social Policy (Phase Two)

2021–2022 Student assistant at the Research Centre for East European Studies, data collection for the project “Characteristics of Political Elites: Long-term Trends in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe”

2016–2018 Journalist at independent online media (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)


Research data

Oksana Chorna, Charlotta Cordes, Friederike Jahn, Kateřina Kňapová, Daniel Kovarek, Ekaterina Paustyan, Heiko Pleines, Michael Rochlitz, Esther Somfalvy, David Swiezy, Mareike zum Felde (2022): Characteristics of Political Elites: Long-term Trends in Post-Socialist Central and Eastern Europe, v. 1.0, Discuss Data

Publications

Chorna, Oksana (forthcoming). Social Policies for Internally Displaced People in the Post-Soviet Region: Constructing IDP Deservingness in Wartime Ukraine', in: Khmelnitskaya, M. & Martus, E. (Eds.) Policymaking in Eurasia. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis).
 
Chorna, Oksana (forthcoming). Social Policy in Transition: The Impact of Political Regime Changes on Ukraine’s Welfare System. In: Dobbins, Michael (Ed.), Politics in Ukraine. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
 
Chorna, Oksana, Pleines, Heiko (2025). Das Elend lindern. Sozialpolitik in Kriegszeiten. Osteuropa, (11-12/2025), 287–294.
 
Chorna, Oksana (2025). Who Deserves Support During Wartime? Reactions of Ukrainian
Internally Displaced Persons to Benefit Cuts. Ukrainian Analytical Digest, (13), 12-17.
https://css.ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/pdfs/ukrainiananalyticaldigest-013.pdf
 
Chorna, Oksana, Heinrich, Andreas, Isabekova, Gulnaz, Pleines, Heiko (2025). Sozialsystem und Arbeitsmarkt. In: Worschech, Susann (Ed.), Freiheitsschauplatz. Ein Gesellschaftsportrait der Ukraine. Baden-Baden: NOMOS VERLAGSGESELLSCHAFT.
 
Chorna, Oksana (2025). Sozialpolitik im Wandel: Einflüsse politischer Regimewechsel auf das ukrainische Wohlfahrtssystem. In: Dobbins, Michael (Ed.), Das politische System der Ukraine: Institutionen, Akteure, Politikfelder (pp. 293-318). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
 
Chorna, Oksana, Pleines, Heiko (2024). Ukraine’s political elites. Composition and changes from 1992 to 2023. Ukrainian Analytical Digest 7.
 
Chorna, Oksana (2023). Das Sozialsystem in der Ukraine: Was ist nötig, damit es unter der schweren Last des Krieges besteht?. Ukraine-Analyse, (283), 2–5.
 
Chorna, Oksana, Pleines, Heiko (2023). Beyond the Frontline: Preventing the Meltdown of Ukraine’s welfare state. Social Policy Worldwide. Retrieved from
https://socialpolicyworldwide.org/post/beyond_the_frontline-_preventing_the_meltdown_of_ukraine--s_welfare_state_7
 
Chorna, Oksana, Pleines, Heiko (2023). Die politischen Eliten der Ukraine im Wandel. Ukraine-Analysen, (285), 4–9.