Victoria Anastasia Aranowicz

Victoria is currently a DPhil (PhD) History student at the University of Oxford in St. Antony’s College. She holds a Master of Arts in European and Mediterranean Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in History, Journalism, and Creative Writing from New York University. Additionally, she spent more than a decade as a trained theatre performer.

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Victoria’s DPhil project focuses on the birth of the Neopagan Slavic Native Faith in Poland and Soviet Russia, a severely under-studied topic. Her general research interests lie in the Central/Eastern European region in belief systems and how they affect cultural and political ideologies such as nationalism, identity, antisemitism, gender and sexuality, and more.

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With her research, literary, and arts experience, as well as her Polish-American background, Victoria hopes to bring a unique take on global news to the team.