Nataliya Tchermalykh, a social and legal anthropologist at the Interdisciplinary Center for Children’s Rights Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, won an ERC Starting Grant for her project “Icons in Crisis: Exploring Global Iconoclastic Politics in the 21st Century”. Her research interests encompass socio-legal studies, legal anthropology, visual anthropology and art.
Nataliya Tchermalykh graduated Kyiv National Linguistic University (Ukraine) with BA in Oriental Studies in 2004, complemented with a MA in Oriental Studies in 2006 from the same university, where she continued as Junior Lecturer. In 2014 she joined the Interdisciplinary Center for Children’s Rights Studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland as a PhD Student and Teaching Assistant. Nataliya was also a visiting research fellow at the Sciences Po (France). In 2019, she completed her doctoral degree in anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (Switzerland), under the supervision of Prof. Grégoire Mallard, with the thesis Making ART, breaking law: exploring the performative dissent and cause lawyering in post-Soviet Russia (Thèse, 2019). In 2020-2021 she led a research project “Can a Child Sue a State? A socio-anthropological inquiry into prerequisites of children’s access to international justice”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under the SPARK funding scheme.
The ERC Starting Grants program provides funding for research projects with a maximum budget of €1.5 million over a period of up to five years. This prestigious award is designed to support exceptional researchers at the beginning of their careers to launch their own projects, build research teams, and pursue their most promising ideas. In this round the success rate was approximately 12,2%.
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