Kristina Hook

Kristina Hook is an anthropologist and scholar-practitioner specializing in genocides and mass atrocities, Ukrainian identity, and Ukraine-Russia relations, past and present.  Her research contextualizes the 1932–1933 Holodomor’s generational impact and memory in modern Ukraine, including the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war (2014–present). Drawing from multi-year ethnographic fieldwork since 2015, interviews conducted across 33 locations in Ukraine, and archival work, she is writing a book that explores the events of the Holodomor from the anthropological perspective and its central importance to questions of Ukrainian national identity, memory, and solidarity. Her book bridges anthropological and comparative genocide theorizing with the specifics of the Holodomor case, including its immediate biosocial impacts (e.g., starvation, trauma), its longer-term repression, the resulting sociopolitical impacts (e.g., identity ramifications), and the recovery of Holodomor national memory in contemporary Ukraine, against the backdrop of an increasingly aggressive modern-day Kremlin.