Photographing Maidan
A collection of photographs taken by Emily Channell-Justice during the 2013 (Euro) Maidan protests in Kyiv, Ukraine. The photographs capture events over the course of several months, from November 23, 2013 to May 2, 2014
Protesters holding flags during the Maidan uprising, 27 November 2013
Protestors waving flags in Independence Square, 27 November 2013
Women holding signs in a crowd of protestors waving flags, 24 November 2013
Protestors carrying votives and signs, 19 January 2014
About the Project
In 2013, Fulbright scholar Emily Channell-Justice arrived in Kyiv to research student activism in Ukraine. Her planned project took a dramatic turn when the groups she was studying participated in the Euromaidan protests that broke out in November of that year. Channell-Justice was the only Western scholar embedded among the protestors; she took over 3000 photographs of the event. Channell-Justice donated those photos to the Walter Havighurst Special Collections & University Archives while she was a Teaching Fellow at Miami University through the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies.
Photographing Maidan is a collaboration between the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies and the Walter Havighurst Special Collections & University Archives at Miami University. Special thank you to Dr. Emily Channell-Justice for donating her Maidan photograph collection and to the many Havighurst students who contributed to the project: Nick Campbell, Lauren Coviello, and Marcus Hock. For more information on Photographing Maidan please contact: havighurstcenter@miamiOH.edu.
Biography
Emily Channell-Justice is the Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. She is a sociocultural anthropologist who has been doing research in Ukraine since 2012. She has pursued research on political activism and social movements among students and feminists during the 2013-2014 Euromaidan mobilizations. Her book Without the State: Self-Organization and Political Activism in Ukraine was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2022 and won the Best Book of the Year by the American Association of Ukrainian Studies. Her edited volume, Decolonizing Queer Experience: LGBT+ Narratives from Eastern Europe and Eurasia (Lexington Books) was published in 2020. She has published academic articles in several journals, including History and Anthropology, Revolutionary Russia, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She received her PhD from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, in September 2016, and she was a Havighurst Teaching Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of International Studies at Miami University, Ohio from 2016-2019.
Photo of Emily