Kseniia Cherniak

Research associate

Saarland University
Campus
Building C5 3
Room 2.17
D-66123 Saarbrücken

Since October 2026 Research assistant within the Professorship for European Studies in the Department of European Studies in the Social Sciences at the Saarland University
2024-2026 Surveys and Elections Specialist at the Capital City of Potsdam
2021-2023 Research associate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies (ICES) at the University of Flensburg
2019-2021 Research assistant at the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS)
2019-2020 Student assistant on the project “Affective and Cultural Foundations of Integration Following Flight and Migration (AFFIN)” at the Free University Berlin
2017-2018 Chair assistant at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

2018-2021: Master of Arts in sociology – European societies at the Free University Berlin
2017-2019: Master in sociology at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
2013-2027: Bachelor in sociology at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Implementation of the PoliSCi-subproject on the implementation of EU sustainability policy objectives at the municipal level
European integration
Researchers at risk
Migration and refugee studies, especially labour market integration
Global dynamics of knowledge production
Postcolonial and Southern theories

Roos C., Nagel M., Kieschnick H., Cherniak K. (2025) The Emigration Conundrum: EU Countries of Origin of Migrants Between Integration and Demarcation.” JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 63, 1, pp. 160-178. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.13637
Kieschnick H., Cherniak K. (2024) Europe Outside Europe? An interview with Dr. Agnieszka Weinar on her book "European Citizenship and Identity Outside of the European Union: Europe Outside Europe?" Journal of Political Sociology, Vol. 2, 1, pp. 140-152. https://doi.org/10.54195/jps.17166
Roos C., Cherniak K., Kieschnick H. (2024) A European Labour Market and nationally bounded Welfare States. EU Emigration and Challenges to social Citizenship. Journal of European Integration, Vol. 46, 6, pp. 839-859. https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2024.2334376
Cherniak K., Lytovchenko A. (2024) Positioning post-soviet sociology in global sociology: between the Global South and the Global North. Studies of Transition States and Societies, Vol. 16, pp. 39-57. https://doi.org/10.58036/stss.v0i0.1067