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Dr. Anna Zhelnina

Dr. Anna Zhelnina

Universitair docent
Interdisciplinaire Sociale Wetenschap
a.zhelnina@uu.nl

I am a sociologist interested in cities and politics.

I defended my Ph.D. dissertation at the Graduate Center of the City ľϸӰ of New York, worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the ľϸӰ of Helsinki, and in 2023 joined Utrecht ľϸӰ as an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science. At UU, I participate in the Sectorplan “Social inequality and diversity.” In 2026, I will begin my ERC-funded project “Strategic Care in Activism: Mental Health Across Scales of Social Change” (Care2Act)

My work has been featured in sociological journals such as Social Problems, Sociology, City and Community, and others. In 2022, I published a co-authored book “” (Oxford ľϸӰ Press). 

My new book "" will be published in November 2025 by Temple ľϸӰ Press.

I enjoy interviewing authors about their new books for the New Book Network podcast: check out these conversations in my

You can also check out my , where I write about writing on an ERC Starting Grant application, among other things.