Lidiya Zubytska, Ph.D.

Lidiya Zubytska specializes in comparative politics of Eastern European states and foreign policy analysis, including domestic factors shaping foreign policy choices in states undergoing political transition. Her current research projects examine new Ukrainian approaches to diplomacy during wartime and the presidentialization of politics in Eastern Europe. Dr. Zubytska has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington D.C. and the Institute on Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University (Sweden); as well as teaching positions at the Ukrainian Catholic University, Randolph-Macon College, Loyola University Maryland and the University of Mary Washington. Prior to her academic path, Lidiya Zubytska worked on civil service reform in the post-Orange revolution Ukraine. Dr. Zubytska is an Eastern Catholic, belonging to the Byzantine rite of the Ukrainian Catholic Church which is led in the US by his Excellency Archbishop Borys Gudziak.