{"id":38183,"date":"2026-03-17T12:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.internationalaffairs.org.au\/?post_type=aiia-authors&#038;p=38183"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:56:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:56:01","slug":"dr-iryna-skubii","status":"publish","type":"aiia-authors","link":"https:\/\/www.internationalaffairs.org.au\/aiia-authors\/dr-iryna-skubii\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Iryna Skubii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Dr Iryna Skubii is a historian of Ukraine, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. Dr Skubii is the inaugural Mykola Zerov Fellow in Ukrainian Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her research examines the economic, social, and environmental history of the region, with particular attention to food security and famines, commodity frontiers, and agriculture. 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