Nataliya Tchermalykh is a social and legal anthropologist. She is currently a postdoctoral teaching and research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Center for Children’s Rights Studies at the University of Geneva. In 2019, she completed her doctoral degree in anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (Switzerland), under the supervision of prof. Grégoire Mallard.

Her research interests encompass socio-legal studies, legal anthropology, visual anthropology and art. In 2020-2021 she leads a research project, called Can a Child Sue a State? A socio-anthropological inquiry into prerequisites of children’s access to international justice, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under the SPARK funding scheme.