Anna Popovych is Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, originally from the Kyiv region of Ukraine. She holds a Master’s in Global Economy from Kyiv National Economic University (2006) and a Master’s in Global Labor from Penn State University (2019). Her dissertation focuses on how ongoing war disrupts and reshapes the system of meanings guiding social action.
Currently, Anna is developing a project on the post-amputation rehabilitation of war veterans. This research explores how varying interactional contexts of prosthetic treatment shape veterans’ recovery processes, sense of belonging, and visions of the future. Her other research includes the impact of wartime conditions on reproductive discourse in Ukraine, political attitudes of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Donbas, and the moral climate among Ukrainian war refugees.