Roman Horbyk
Roman Horbyk is known for his work in media, language, politics, and modern history. He worked as postdoctoral researcher at Södertörn University and Umeå University after defending two dissertations, on illustrated press in the 1920s Weimar Republic and Soviet Ukraine (Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, 2015) and on media power in representations of Europe in Ukraine, Russia and Poland during Euromaidan (Södertörn University, 2017); the latter was shortlisted for the best Swedish dissertation in media studies award. He has also been a Senior Lecturer at Örebro University and an URIS Fellow at the University of Basel, among other academic affiliations he has held in recent years.
Dr Horbyk’s studies are interdisciplinary and focus on various aspects of postcolonial and mediatization theories, sociolinguistics, history of representations and ideas.
