WGSS Ph.D. Candidate Lesia Pagulich recently was awarded a 2021-2022 Presidential Fellowship!

The Presidential Fellowship is offered to graduates during the spring and fall of each year and is the most prestigious award given to students by the OSU Graduate School. The fellowship provides financial support for students in their research and is awarded to up to 15 nominated doctoral candidates throughout all of the OSU colleges each semester who show outstanding scholarship.

Advised by Professor Jennifer Suchland, Lesia specializes in areas such as queer studies, transnational feminism, post-soviet/socialist studies, and critical race studies. During the academic year, Lesia teaches courses such as Introduction to Queer Studies (WGSST 2282), Gender, War and Peacebuilding (WGSST 3302), and Sexualities and Citizenship (WGSST 3370). She also has published work in several journals, including “New Lovers…? as Patriots and Citizens: Thinking beyond Homonationalism and Promises of Freedom (the Ukrainian Case)” in Queering Paradigms VIII: Queer-Feminist Solidarity and the East/West Divide and “(Re)thinking Postsocialism: Interview with Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora” in Feminist Critique: Breaking with Transition: Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspectives in Eastern Europe.

Congratulations to Lesia on her hard work and amazing accomplishment!

For more information about this and other graduate fellowships offered, please visit the Graduate School website.