Iuliia Hoban

Title
Assistant Professor, College of Arts & Sciences
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Department
Department of Security and Emergency Services
College
College of Arts & Sciences
Iuliia Hoban

​Iuliia Hoban holds a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from Rutgers University, a Masters in International Development from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver along with certificate in Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance, and a B.A. in History from the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine.

Before joining Embry-Riddle, Iuliia held academic appointments at Radford University and the College of New Jersey as well as an administrative appointment at Virginia Tech as the Assistant Director for Intercultural Learning and Program Director for Mozaiko Living-Learning Community.

Dr. Hoban’s research agenda is broadly focused on the politics of childhood and youth in conflict and peacebuilding settings, the gendered dimension of responses to conflict and crisis, and the dynamic interrelationship between law and war.

Dr. Hoban also applied her research skills in NGOs and think tanks such as Watchlist for Children and Armed Conflict (New York, NY), the Institute of World Policy (Kyiv, Ukraine), and the Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking (Denver, CO) where her major responsibilities focused on analysis and research of multidimensional factors and aspects of human rights.

Areas of expertise:

  • human security and critical security studies
  • armed conflict
  • peace building and conflict resolution
  • human rights
  • feminist methodologies
  • European Union, Ukraine and Ukraine-Russia relations



  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Global Affairs, Rutgers University-Newark
  • M.S. - Master of Science in Global Affairs, Rutgers University-Newark
  • M.A. - Master of Arts in International Development, University of Denver
  • Graduate Certificate in International Studies: Humanitarian Assistance, University of Denver