Maria Mayerchyk (Ukrainian: Маєрчик Марія Степанівна, born 15 October 1971) is a Ukrainian feminist academic and the editor-in-chief of Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies.
They are noted for their analysis of feminism at the Euromaidan protests.
They are a senior research scholar at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine's Institute of Ethnology in Lviv. Their academic interests include diaspora, feminism, folklore, sexuality, queer studies, and decolonial epistemologies of the European periphery.
Mayerchyk are the editor-in-chief of Feminist Critique: East European Journal of Feminist and Queer Studies.
They were the academic director of the OSI-HESP ReSET project "Gender, Sexuality, and Power" (2011–2014).
Publications
Maria Mayerchyk, Olga Plakhotnik. “‘Uneventful’ Feminist Protest in Post-Maidan Ukraine: Nation and Coloniality Revisited.” Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice, ed. by R. Koobak, M. Tlostanova, and S. Thapar-Björkert, 121–137. New York: Routledge (Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality Series), 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003003199-11
Mayerchyk, Maria. "Doshliubni intymmni stosunky sered molodi v selakh ta mistakh Skhidnoi ta Tsentral'noi Ukrainy na pochatku XX Stolittia,"Україна Модерна, 6 (2010): 101–112
↑Sperling, V. (2015). Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p.239 & 242
↑Скрипник Ірина. РЕЦЕНЗІЯ НА МОНОГРАФІЮ Марія Маєрчик. Ритуал і тіло. Структурно-семантичний аналіз українських обрядів родинного циклу: Монографі. – К.: Критика, 2011. – 327 с. / Review of the monography by Maria Mayerchyk. Ritual and Body. The structural-semantic analysis of the Ukrainian familial-cycle rites / Maria Mayerchyk. – Kyiv: Krytyka, 2011. – 327 p. Aktualʹnì Pitannâ Suspìlʹnih Nauk ta Istorìï Medicini . 2014;(4(4)):117-118. Accessed April 18, 2022. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsdoj&AN=edsdoj.740417a4e0a04cd3bbd566b90a2a8037&site=eds-live&scope=site
↑New Imaginaries: Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine's Cultural Paradigm. (2015). United Kingdom: Berghahn Books. p81