Denys Gorbach
Temporary Lecturer and Researcher at University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Printemps laboratory
Denys Gorbach defended his PhD thesis in political science, "The (un)making of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Socialist City", in 2022. As of September 2023, he is a temporary Lecturer and Researcher at University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Previously, he was a doctoral fellow at Sciences Po (MaxPo and CEE), under the supervision of Jenny Andersson and Gilles Favarel-Garrigues. Before that, he received his Master's degree in June 2017 from the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Central European University, Budapest and his BA in political science and MA in philosophy from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. He has also worked as an economic journalist. Denys' research project is focused on national populism in today's Ukraine – both as the basis of dominant national public discourses and as the defining factor of the country's national variety of capitalism.
Research interests
Political economy, social movements, class formation, hegemonic processes, post-Soviet region, politico-economic anthropology, moral economy.
