Nataliya Tchermalykh is a visual anthropologist and socio-legal scholar working at the intersection of art, politics, and law, with a long-term focus on Eastern Europe and Ukraine. Her research explores how images, artistic practices, and material landscapes shape political contestation, and forms of dissent, particularly in contexts of war and social transformation. 

She is the recipient of the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for the project ICONS: Exploring Global Iconoclastic Politics in the 21st Century. She is the author of Shifting Landscapes: An Anthropology of Art and War (Toronto University Press, forthcoming) and editor of Subversive Intrusions: How Activist Interventions Redefine the Museum.

Nataliya Tchermalykh is a research professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Her classes bring together students from art and the social sciences to examine how political processes are shaped, represented, and contested through visual and artistic practices, fostering analysis of the visual dimensions of international politics.