She is an anthropologist, folklorist, and oral historian. After completing her basic philological education at the Lviv Ivan Franko National University, she received her PhD in folklore studies and worked as a senior researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2001-2023). Since 2024, she has been an independent researcher. She is a member of the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Association of Oral History.

As part of her scholarship support from the Józef Mianowski Foundation, she completed an internship at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw (2008). In 2022, she participated in the Erasmus+ Academic Mobility Project. She is a scholarship holder of the STIBET I program of the German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD (2023).

In recent years, her research interests have been related to oral history and folklore studies of the experience of the "difficult past" (collectivization, deportation, imprisonment, famines, and the Holodomor, the Holocaust, wars, the Resistance Movement in the twentieth century) and the "difficult present"— the Russian war against Ukraine in the twenty-first century. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, he has been conducting interviews with those who have experienced Russia's war against Ukraine. She focuses on the verbal representation of the subjective experience of war in the context of typological features of the construction of the narrative about the "difficult past."

Her previous research has focused on the cultural typology of Ukrainian borderlands in general and the folklore tradition of the Ukrainian-Moldovan borderland in particular. She is the author of a monograph on the symbolism of Ukrainian folklore and co-author of a study on the folklore tradition of Ukrainians in northern Moldova.

During her LivArch fellowship at the Center for Urban History, the researcher will develop tools for "navigating" the textual space of archives that are being formed as part of collective and individual projects documenting Russia's war against Ukraine. Among the primary tasks is the development of an Index of key concepts and motives (criteria for compiling it), which is expected to help build a common trajectory in systematizing and further studying the entire body of evidence, especially when it comes to those initiatives that record the experience of war in the format of storytelling.