Name
KOROSTELINA, Karina
Position and Affiliated Institution
Professor, Director Peace Lab on Reconciling Conflicts and Intergroup Divisions, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, USA
Degree
Ph.D.
Education and Academic Employment
| Education: | |
| 2003 | Dr. of Sc. (Habit.) in social psychology. Institute of Psychology of the Ukrainian Academy of Science, Kiev. “Structure and dynamic of social identity system” |
| 1994 | Ph.D. (Candidate of science) in psychology. Odessa State University, “Types of decision-making process” |
| 1991 | MS (honors) Kiev National University. Psychologist, lecturer on psychology |
| 1990 | BS (honors) Kiev National University. Psychologist |
| Academic Employment: | |
| August 2016- present | Professor, Director of the Peace Lab on Reconciling Divided Societies and Memories, Director of the Program on History, Memory and Conflict, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (former SCAR), George Mason University, Arlington, VA |
| January 2004- August 2016 | Associate Professor, Director of the Program on History, Memory and Conflict, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (former SCAR), George Mason University, Arlington, VA |
| August 1998 – December 2003 | Associate Professor, National Taurida Vernadsky University, Simferopol, Ukraine |
| September 1994- July 1998 | Assistant Professor Simferopol State University, Simferopol, Ukraine |
Research Topic
Reconciliation within democratic societies: comparative perspectives
Fields of Research Interests
Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Social Psychology
Academic Publications
- (2021) Neighborhood Resilience and Urban Conflict. Routledge
- (2016) Trump Effect. Routledge
- (2014) Political Insults: How Offenses Escalates Conflict. University of Oxford Press.
- (2013) Constructing Narrative of Identity and Power: Self-imagination in a Young Ukrainian Nation, Lexington
- (2013) History Education in the Formation of Social Identity: Toward a Culture of Peace, Palgrave Macmillan
Affiliated Academic Organizations
International Association for Reconciliation Studies
International Studies Association
International Peace Research Association
Awards (Recent five)
FELLOWSHIPS:
- Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, “Historic Representations and Perspectives on Japanese-Korean reconciliation,” 2023
- Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship at the University of Singapore, Singapore, “Collective memories and symbolic boundaries in North-East Asia,” 2020
- POSCO Visiting Fellowship with the East-West Center (EWC) in Honolulu, Hawaii, 2019
- Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, “Historic Representations and Perspectives on Japanese-Korean reconciliation,” 2018
- Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Academic Writing Residency, Bellagio, Italy, “Neighborhood resilience,” 2017
RESEARCH and PRACTICE GRANTS:
External:
- Principal Investigator, “Contact Theory in Democracy, Human Rights & Governance Programs, ” supported by the US Department of State, 2022-2025
- Principal Investigator, “The Costs of Peace: War Experience, Territorial Loss, and Peace Agreement Consensus in Ukraine,” supported by the NSF RAPID grant program, 2022-2023.
- Co- Principal Investigator, “Identity and Religion based approaches to Peace processes,” supported by Bridging Insights Harvard University, 2022-2023
- Principal Investigator, “Tolerance Promotion and Conflict Resolution: Teaching and Practice (Faculty of Philosophy University of Nis (UNI)/George Mason University Partnership)”, supported by the US Department of State, Embassy in Serbia, 2021-2023.
- Principal Investigator, “Developing curricula and internship program with EDGE for Lebanon,” supported by the US Department of State, Embassy in Lebanon, 2021-2022.
GMU Research grants:
- Principal Investigator, seed grant, “Bridging Divides in Social Movements for Peace and Justice: A Comparative, Mixed-Methods Analysis of Two LGBTQ-Justice Movements in the US,” 2022
- Principal Investigator, seed grant “Identity-based approaches to climate-related Migration,” 2022.
- Co- Principal Investigator, seed grant “Affective-Normative Theory of Conflict Transformation,” 2022.
- Principal Investigator, seed grant for the Peace Lab on Reconciling Divided Societies and Memories, 2021.
- Principal Investigator, “Impact of historical narratives on immigration policies in Greece,” supported by the GEO office, George Mason University, 2018.
Other Interests
Architecture, national cousins
