Fiona Rose Greenland is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. She holds a D.Phil. in Classical Archaeology (Oxford University) and a Ph.D. in Sociology (University of Michigan). Her current work builds the concept of natiocide—nation-killing in contrast to nation-building—based on extensive fieldwork in wartime Ukraine. The book, To Kill a Nation, is under contract with Princeton University Press. Dr. Greenland’s prior book, Ruling Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2021), explored tomb raiders, informal networks, and police power in Italy and received the American Sociological Association’s Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in Culture. Her work has been published in Theory & Society, Sociological Theory, Nations and Nationalism, and the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, among other journals.
Greenland is the founder and co-director of the Cultural Resilience and Informatics Lab (CURIA). In 2023 and 2024, she led the CURIA Lab’s Conflict Observatory Ukraine team, which documented Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian cultural heritage sites. She continues to support investigations into cultural atrocities globally as a certified OSINT researcher (open source intelligence) and registered expert with Justice Rapid Response (JRR), an independent Geneva-based human rights organization. She was a Residential Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg für kulturelle Praktiken der Reparation (CURE), in Germany in 2024-25, and is an Affiliated Fellow with INDEX-Ukraine in Lviv.