LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/fiona-greenland
CURIA Lab: www.curialab.org

Research Interests: Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Historical and Comparative Methods, Social Theory, Archaeology

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) and draws on methods and frameworks from both disciplines in her research. 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 (forthcoming 2026). Dr. Greenland’s prior book, Ruling Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2021), studied tomb raiders, informal trading networks, and police power in Italy and received the American Sociological Association’s Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in Culture.

Greenland is the founder and co-director of the Cultural Resilience and Informatics Lab (CURIA), where she has invited a dynamic and diverse team of researchers to pursue both scholarship and public engagement in the relationship between state violence and material cultural heritage. In 2023 and 2024, she led the CURIA Lab’s Conflict Observatory Ukraine team, which investigated alleged attacks by Russia 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 is a research fellow at INDEX-Ukraine (Lviv).

Greenland has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including Theory & Society, Sociological Theory, Research in Social Movements, Conflict, and Change, and the American Journal of Cultural Sociology. She co-edited Cultural Violence and the Destruction of Human Communities with Fatma Müge Göçek (Routledge, 2020).

UVA Affiliations

• Associate Professor of Anthropology (by courtesy)
• Senior Faculty Fellow, Office of the Vice President for Research
• Associate Faculty, Global Commerce in Culture and Society (web site) [https://globalstudies.as.virginia.edu/global-commerce-culture-society]
• Founder and Director, CURIA Lab (web site) [curialab.org]
• Member, Faculty Steering Committee, Quantitative Collaborative

Selected Publications