Olga Baysha
- Associate Professor: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
- Olga Baysha has been at HSE University since 2013.
Education and Degrees
University of Colorado
Thesis Title: The mythologies of moderity with the schizophrenic network dynamic
Thesis Title: Media Framing of Ukrainian Political Crisis 2000-2001
University of Colorado
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2024, 2020–2021, 2018
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2022
Dr. Baysha's Bio
Olga Baysha earned her MS in Journalism from Colorado State University and PhD in Communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Previously, she worked as a news reporter and editor in Kharkiv, Ukraine, then as an editor-in-chief of a documentary production company in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her research centers mainly on political and cultural aspects of globalization with an emphasis on new media and global social movements for justice and democratization. Dr. Baysha is especially interested in analyzing inherent anti-democratic tendencies of the discourses of Westernization employed by post-Soviet social movements. Dr. Baysha is the author of four monographs: "The Mythologies of Capitalism and the End of the Soviet Project" (Lexington, 2014), "Miscommunicating Social Change: Lessons from Russia and Ukraine" (Lexington, 2018), "Democracy, Populism, and Neoliberalism in Ukraine: On the Fringes of the Virtual and the Real" (Routledge, 2021), and "War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine" (Routledge, 2023). Her research has also appeared in such leading international journals as Critical Discourse Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Communication Gazette, International Journal of Communication, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, etc.
ACADEMIC AWARDS
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2020
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Top Paper of the Language and Social Interaction Division, International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Convention, Gold Coast, Australia, Virtual format. (“Decolonizing Critical Discourse Studies”). |
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2018
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Top Paper of the Peace and Conflict Communication Division, National Communication Association (NCA) National Convention, Salt Lake City, USA. (“The Games of Dehumanization: On the Material Components of Radical Antagonistic Discourses”). |
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Top Paper of the Activism, Communication, and Social Justice Division, International Communication Association (ICA) National Convention, Prague, Czech Republic. (“Democratic Globalization” or “Global Coloniality”? An Antagonistic Discourse of an Anti-Corruption Movement in Russia”). |
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2016
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Top Paper of the Peace and Conflict Communication Division, National Communication Association (NCA) Annual Convention, Philadelphia, USA. (“Terrorism” as an Impossible Totality: On the Role of Progressive Media in Constructing a ‘Terrorist Other’”).
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