Research Fellow, Ph.D.
Since June 2005 – research fellow at the Skovoroda`s Institute of Philosophy of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Social Philosophy Department
Since April 2024 – Walter Benjamin research fellow at the Institute of Political Science (Institut für Politische Wissenschaft), RWTH Aachen University, Germany
October 2022 – March 2024, senior research fellow at the Käte Hamburger International Center for Advanced Study “Cultures of Research”, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
August-October 2015, Annual Seminar of Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
She has participated in various research projects both Ukrainian and international.
2004 - defense of the Dissertation titled ‘Intersubjectivity and Sociality’ (coordinator Prof. Dr. Anatoliy Loy).
1999-2004 - postgraduate student at Philosophy Faculty of Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University
1994-1999 - student, Philosophy Faculty of Kiev National Taras Shevchenko University, Ukraine (cum laude diploma)

Shcherbak S. (2023) Deliberative Discourse as a Response to the Crisis of Liberal Democracy // Discursive Practices of Deliberative Democracy in Ukrainian Society (in Ukrainian). Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, pp. 95-143.
Shcherbak S. (2023) "Modernization" as a social imaginary: methodological notes (in Ukrainian). Philosophical Thought, No. 4 (58-72), https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2023.04.058.
Shcherbak S. (2023) Studying Populism: A Theoretical Framework and the Case of Ukraine. Ideology and Politics, 1 (22), 1-16. DOI: 10.36169/2227-6068.2023.01.00004.
Kiryukhin D., Shcherbak S. (2022) The People, Values and the State: How Vladimir Putin’s Views on Ideology Evolved. Studia Politica, vol. XXII, no. 1, 9-33 (1,7 д.а.).
Shcherbak S. (2021) Populism in Global Times: The Revival of Community. In: Community and Tradition in Global Times, edited by D. Kiryukhin. Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series IVA. Eastern and Central European Philosophical Studies, Volume 59. Washington, DC: The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy. P. 11-41 (2 д.а.).
Shcherbak S. (2021) European Values and the Relationship between Democratisation and Economic Development. In: Socio-Philosophical Problems of Modernization of Ukrainian Society from the Perspective of European Values (In Ukr). Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, 154-191.
Shcherbak, S. (2021) Max Weber and the Modern Plebiscitary Democracy (In Ukr). Philosophical Thought (Special Issue: Weber’s legacy: at the crossroads of traditions), (1), 135–148. https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2021.01.135.
Shcherbak, S. (2020) Populism from the perspective of political philosophy: Current issues of modern political philosophy and ethno-national studies (In Ukr). Philosophical thought, (3), 61–78. https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2020.03.061.
Shcherbak S. (2020) One step forward and two steps back: The fate of modernity in Eastern Europe. Review on the book by Mikhail Minakov Dialectic of Modernity in Eastern Europe. Experience of socio-philosophical reflection. Kyiv: Laurus, 2020. Intellros Journal Club "Untouchable Stock", #131 (In Russian). http://www.intelros.ru/readroom/nz/131-2020/42876-recenzii.html
Shcherbak, S. (2018) Modernization Hypothesis and Neoliberalism (In Rus). The Russian Sociological Review, 17 (3), 291-328. https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2018-17-3/224869327.html.
Shcherbak, S. (2018) Demodernization or the Internal Tensions of Modernity? (In Rus). Ideology and Politics, 1(9), 17-78. https://www.ideopol.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/________2018%201.%204.%20ENG.%20Scherbak.%20Demodernization%20Ed%20copy.pdf.