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Anna Olenenko is a PhD student in Media and Cultural Studies at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and a research assistant at the Kule Folklore Centre. She graduated from Zaporizhzhia National University in 2007 and received her Candidate of Sciences in History from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2013. Her research interests include the environmental history of Ukraine, particularly the Steppe region, animal studies, and oral history. She serves as the Regional Representative of Ukraine and a member of the Board of the European Society for Environmental History, and she is a co-founder of the EnvHistUA Research Group.

Her recent publications include a co-authored chapter with Stefan Dorondel, “In Quest of Development: Territorialization and the Transformation of the Southern Ukrainian Wetlands, 1880–1960,” in A New Ecological Order: Development and the Transformation of Nature in Eastern Europe (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), pp. 65–86; a chapter titled “Camels in European Russia: Exotic Farm Animals and Agricultural Knowledge,” in Thinking Russia’s History Environmentally (Berghahn, 2023), pp. 151–173; and “‘Our New Sea Is Our New Grief’: The Conflict between the Ukrainian and the Soviet in the Struggle to Construct the Landscape of the Lower Dnipro,” in East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (Edmonton and Toronto), vol. 11, no. 2, 2024 (forthcoming).

Email: aolenenk@ualberta.ca