Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on February 2, 2026 to attend this event in-person.
Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a book talk by Sophia Wilson. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk.
Sophia Wilson will discuss her book, “Maidan: Ukraine’s Democratic Revolution” – a carefully researched account of the underbelly of the Ukrainian revolutionary process in the winter of 2013-14. The book investigates how participants self-organized to create the resistance, why the peaceful movement eventually turned to violence, and how the revolutionary process changed those who came to change the country. The Ukrainian state used violence and violations of due process to suppress the resistance, thereby declaring new boundaries in rights relations. Wilson’s book shows how the people pushed back in multiple arenas – the protest square, courtrooms, hospitals, churches, and media – to successfully challenge the constitutionality of the state’s actions.
(https://www.mqup.ca/Books/M/Maidan)
Dr. Sophia Wilson is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and the President of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. She was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) in 2015, and taught at the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI) in 2017, 2019 and 2025. She was a Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Law, Society and Culture at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2012-2013. In October of 2023, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin, as she began her work on a new book, comparing three occupations of Ukraine: by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and modern Russia.
