KIU-Fellows with Ukraine expertise

Dr. Alona Bilokon

She holds a Ph.D. in History and has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research, environmental studies, and sustainability-focused projects at both national and international levels. With Master’s degrees in International Relations and Financial Management, she has engaged in research and practical projects in environmental and sustainable development initiatives throughout her career. She has conducted research projects at the University of Regensburg and LMU Munich in Germany and has undertaken research stays in Switzerland and Austria. Additionally, as a member of the Supervisory Board of the regional accelerator centre for innovation, technology, and start-ups in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine, based at Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, she has contributed to various sustainable projects addressing both local and regional challenges.

Research interests:

•  energy transition
•  international relations and foreign policy
•  sustainable development
•  social involvement in RES-projects

Prof. Roman Galych

Associate Professor
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

PhD in Law, Associate Professor at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.
Head of the regional division of the Ukrainian Bar Association.

Research interests:

• social and labor relations
• protection of social and labor rights
• rights and freedoms of citizens
• financial security of citizens

Dr. Hab. Tetiana Gardashuk

Head of the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
National Academy of Sciences Ukraine

Dr. hab. in Philosophy, Head of the Department of Logic and Methodology of Science at the H. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Co-founder of the National Ecological Center of Ukraine; Member of the European Sustainable Use Network (ESUG).

Research interests:

• philosophy of science, eco-philosophy, and contemporary ecologism
• bioethics and environmental ethics
• environmental colonialism, environmental impacts and nuclear threats of war, and ecocide
• methodology of environmental peacebuilding

Prof. Inha Kozlova

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv

Associate Professor of Sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv). PhD in Sociology (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). Specialist in sociological project management and data collection; Head of the Sociological Laboratory at UCU since 2016. Collaborations include the Cultural Strategy Institute, the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, and the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS).

Research interests:

• Urban sociology
• Sociology of the city
• Qualitative methods of data collection and analysis
• Migration studies (IDP)
• Veteran studies

Dr. Pavlo Martyshev

Center for Food and Land Use Research
Kyiv School of Economics

Economist specialising in research of food markets and agricultural policy, modeling of agricultural prices. He received a PhD degree in economics at the Institute of Economics and Forecasting of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2020. Apart from his research activity, Pavlo worked as a grain market analyst at agricultural consulting companies. Pavlo participated in policy projects organized by the World Bank, UN World Food Programme, and other international institutions. Besides, he was engaged in the academic exchange with Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (Germany) and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Research interests:

• Agricultural economics
• Food security
• Agri-food policy
• Econometric modelling of commodity markets

Prof. Mykhailo (also Mikhail) Minakov

Guest Professor at the European University Viadrina
Professor at the Free University Riga

Senior advisor at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, Professor at the Free University (Brīvā Universitāte, Riga), and a philosopher and a scholar working in the areas of political philosophy, social theory, international development, and history of modernity. 

Research interests: 

• political systems and regimes, patronal politics and grand corruption, history of international relations, Eastern European and Northern Eurasian area studies (with a focus on Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, as well as on the post-Soviet de facto states)
• ontology, human existence, history of philosophy, philosophy of history, social epistemology, and ideology theories

Prof. Liana Moskalyk

Associate Professor
Department of International Economic Analysis and Finance, Faculty of International Relations
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

PhD in Economics  and specialist in Trade Policy and Commercial Diplomacy. Her current research investigates financial inclusion as a strategic pillar for Ukraine's post-war economic recovery and sustainable growth. 

Research interests:

• digital finance and fintech
• post-conflict economic recovery and reconstruction
• international economic and finance

Prof. Natalia Mushak

State University ‘Kyiv Aviation Institute’

Dr. Hab., Professor of International and European Law at State University ‘Kyiv Aviation Institute’. She has been a visiting scholar at Kiel Albrecht University (Germany), Masaryk University (the Czech Republic), European Humanitarian University (Lithuania), Gdansk University (Poland), Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), Leona Kozminskiego Academy (Poland).  Representative Speaker from Ukraine at the World Law Congresses in New York (USA), Barranquilla (Colombia), Madrid (Spain), Regensburg (Germany) etc. She has also contributed to policy through roles in the Ministry of Ecology and as a secretary assistant in an EU-Ukraine trade dispute. Her work bridges academic excellence and practical legal expertise in European integration and governance.

Research interests: 

• European human rights protection mechanisms
• Schengen law and EU border policies
• legal aspects of European Union–Ukraine Cooperation
• migration, security, and legal responses to crises in Europe

Oleh Nivievskyi

Kyiv School of Economics

He is a Professor of Economics at the Kyiv School of Economics and a founder of the Center for Food and Land Use Research at KSE. Oleh holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and Applied Statistics from University of Göttingen with more than 20 years of experience in agri-food markets and policy. Oleh is also interested in a political economy and performance of local governance in Ukraine, EU integration, conflicts’ impact and post-war rebuilding and recovery, as well as in transport services pricing and policy.

In 2025/26 winter semester Oleh was teaching 3 seminar courses at the European University Viadrina:

• Food security, agricultural markets and policy

• Transportation markets and infrastructure

• War Research Laboratory

Dr. Hab. Tetyana Panchenko

She studied sociology at the Karazin Kharkiv National University,  holds a PhD and a habilitation in political science from Dragomanov Pedagogical  National  University. She has been working in the positions of Lector, Assistant Professor, Professor in the political science department at the Karazin Kharkiv National University since 2001. She also worked in different research projects at the ifo Center for International Institutional Comparison and Migration Research in Munich (2022-2024), taught in Ukrainian Free University in Munich (2016-2017), held research fellowship at the Humboldt University in Berlin (2013–2014), was an alumna of the academic programs of Central European University, Institute of Federalism at the University of Fribourg and Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Research interests:

• comparative regionalism
• subnational policy
• voluntary and forced migration from Ukraine
• qualitative and mixed method in migration studies

Prof. Oleksandr Pryimenko

PhD in Law, Associate Professor, specializes in social security law of Ukraine and practice of the European Court of Human Rights. He earned his Ph.D. in 2014 at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alicante and Miguel Hernández University of Elche, where he focused on the Spanish experience with survivors' pensions. Specifically, he examined provisions for common-law partners and victims of gender-based violence to guide Ukrainian legal reform. He has also engaged in international cooperation through various projects, notably the Erasmus+ programme, addressing the Ukrainian higher education system.  

Research interests:

• social security law
• european protection of social rights
• comparative pension law

Prof. Francesc Rodríguez

Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg

Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (York University), is assistant professor in environmental humanities and STS in the Chair of Technoscience Studies at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg (BTU). While there, he has also worked within EUNICE, the European University for Customised Education, to develop and coordinate a new european joint M.A. programme in Technoscience, Environment and Society, connecting six universities in Germany, Ukraine, Greece, Portugal, France, and Sweden. In addition, Francesc collaborates with NUBiP in Kyiv, where he regularly gives lectures for the Faculty of Plant Protection, Biotechnology and Ecology. Previously, Francesc held research and teaching positions at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences and Open University of Catalonia.

Research interests:

• water & multispecies ethnographies
• socio-environmental conflicts
• science & society relations
• infrastructure studies

Dr. Taras Romashchenko

Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine

He is an associate professor of the Department of Economics and International Economic Relations at Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Ukraine. He is also a visiting professor and senior lecturer at Bielefeld University and has been a postdoctoral research fellow at Danube University Krems. Currently, also acts as a co-chair of German-Ukrainian online discussions about Ukrainian intellectual life – ‘Lunch Talks with Lviv’.
He holds a PhD in international economics from Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade, Ukraine, and has published on topics such as global labour migration, international flows of highly-skilled workers, remittances, etc. Recent publications have focused on the socioeconomic and demographic challenges faced by Ukraine in the context of the ongoing full-scale invasion by Russia.

Research interests:

• Ukrainian diaspora
• international labour migration and development of the countries of origin (diaspora direct investments/DDI, remittances, etc.)
• forced migration
• voluntary return migration
• refugee policy and challenges

Prof. Konrad Sobański 

Poznan University of Economics and Business

He is an Associate Professor at the Poznan University of Economics and Business (PUEB), Poland. His research focuses on international finance, financial markets, digital economics, blockchain finance, and fintech, with a particular interest in Central and Eastern Europe. He has published in numerous international journals and authored award-winning monographs recognised by the Polish Economic Society, the Leopold Kronenberg Foundation, and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. He has served as a Visiting Professor at universities in Azerbaijan, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Kazakhstan, Spain, and the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Economics and Business Review. He lectures in the Executive MBA programme jointly run by PUEB and Georgia State University in Atlanta, United States. Konrad is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, United Kingdom, and holds licences as Investment Adviser and Securities Broker.

Research interests:

• international finance
• financial markets
• digital economics

Dr. Hanna Vakhitova

University of Southern Denmark

She holds the position of Senior researcher and Assistant professor at the Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine) after receiving Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky (USA) in 2006.

I am a policy economist with over 15 years of experience in projects for the World Bank, ETF, ILO, USAID, European Commission, and Ukrainian government. I enjoy explaining complex economic concepts clearly and concisely to diverse audiences, from stakeholders to media. During May 2022 – Aug 2024, I had an opportunity to work at the University of Southern Denmark as a SARU fellow.

Research interests:

• migration economics (economic and forced migrants)
• skills and employment
• social protection

Inna Volosevych

Deputy Director of Info Sapiens

She is Ukrainian writer and researcher. She gained her Master’s degree in Sociology from the National University ‘Kyiv Mohyla Academy’ with honors in 2006. Since then, she has been working in Ukraine for the research companies GfK, Ipsos, and Info Sapiens in the area of social research. She is currently Deputy Director of Info Sapiens. Volosevych has managed more than 1.000 social research projects, mostly for international donors. She joined KIU in 2024 to work on a research project Adaptation of the Ukrainian Labour Market to Wartime.

Research interests:

• gender studies
• migration studies
• employment studies
• values studies
• mental health studies

Prof. Lesia Bidochko

Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

She is a Senior Lecturer at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the Deputy Head of the Research Center at Detector Media. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science (2019) from Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, where her dissertation, Cultural Materialism as a Methodology for Political Research: The Case of Ukrainian Left Parties, explored the intersection of anthropological theory and political ideology. From 2023 to 2024, Lesia was a GCE St. Gallen Fellow at New Europe College in Bucharest, where she conducted in-depth research on the political activities and ideological markers of Ukrainian far-right movements prior to 2022. During 2024–2025, she also worked as an External Subject Matter Expert for the Counter Extremism Project in Germany, contributing her expertise on extremism and disinformation to international efforts to combat radicalization. With her experience in academia and media, Lesia specializes in the study of far-right movements in Ukraine and the mechanisms of Russian propaganda, particularly the dissemination of Kremlin-backed narratives within Ukrainian social media spaces.

Research interests:

• Russian hybrid warfare and FIMI,

• the Ukrainian media landscape,

• REMVE threats,

• Ukraine’s strategic communications in occupied territories.

Dr. Michael Dobbins

Leibniz University Hannover

He was previously assistant professor (Juniorprofessor) of education policy at the Goethe University of Frankfurt (2013–2021) and adjunct professor (Ergänzungsprofessor) of policy analysis at the University of Konstanz (2019–2025). His doctoral dissertation dealt with post-communist higher education. His main areas of research are education policy, post‐communist transformation processes, and organized interests. He is the co‐director of the DFG-NCN research project ‘The Missing Link: Examining Organized Interests in Post‐Communist Policy‐Making’. He is co-editor of the Springer book series ‘Ukraine verstehen’ and editor of a new German-language anthology on the politics of Ukraine (Das politische System der Ukraine: Institutionen, Akteure und Politikfelder).

Research interests:

• organized interests
• post-communist politics
• education policy

Dr. Arvydas Grišinas

Lithuanian Institute of History & Kaunas University of Technology

PhD in Politics and Government, Senior Researcher at the Ethnology and Anthropology Department, Lithuanian Institute of History, Assistant Professor at Kaunas University of Technology. Formerly held temporary scholarly positions at Yale University, Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen Vienna, Uppsala University, University of Kent and Vilnius Academy of Arts. Member of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS), Lithuanian Anthropological Association (LAA). Author of ‘Politics with a Human Face: Identity and Experience in Post-Soviet Europe’ (Routledge, 2018) and ‘The Western Crisis of Truth in the Early 21st Century: As the Enlightenment Dims’ (Routledge, 2025).

Research interests:

• Central and Eastern European politics and culture
• political anthropology of social and political movements
• critiques of modernity and technology
• truth and power in a digital age

Dr. Olena Lazorenko

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Ph.D. in social philosophy, M.A. in political science; postgraduates’ programmes and trainings in management and organizational behaviour in Duke University (USA); Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (UK); Lovanium Catholic University (Belgium), Institute of Banking Education (Slovakia). Now she is a social researcher, trainer and civil society organization leader. She holds Senior Researcher post at Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine & President of NGO ‘League of Professional Women’, leader and key expert of LPW`s analytical & advocacy division. Olena elected as EaP CSF Delegate from Ukraine for 2024–2026 cycle of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum. She possesses more than 20 years of proven academic, leadership, managerial experience in policy analysis, academic research, civil society leadership and advocacy. In 2001–2017, she founded and ran for 16 years services in academic entrepreneurship in Ukraine, which was sold to new owners in the spring 2017. She authored more than 80 publications on democracy issues, adults learning and education, creativity, SDGs, women empowerment, social & human capital development.

Research interests:

• democracy theories
• social philosophy
• adults learning and education

Dr. Gaëlle Le Pavic

She is an associate postdoctoral researcher in Social Work and Social Pedagogy at Ghent University and a fellow at UNU–CRIS. Her research explores migration, feminist geopolitics perspectives, and knowledge production. Her current work examines social support in displacement contexts following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She held fellowships at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography and the University of Fribourg, where she studied Ukrainian mothers in exile. Her PhD focused on the social impacts of contested borders in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. She also has experience in international cooperation and research on EU migration processes.

Research interests:

• migration and border contestation
• feminist geopolitics
• knowledge production

Prof. Yuriy Matsiyevsky

Ostroh Academy National University

He is Professor of Political Science and the head of the Center for Political Research at Ostroh Academy National University in Ostroh, Ukraine. He received his doctoral degree in political science from Lviv University in 1996 and habilitation from Ivan Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2016. Previously he studied at the Graduate School for Social Research in Warsaw. Since 1999 he has taught at Ostroh Academy. Yuriy Matsiyevsky has recently held several non-residential scholar positions including at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy (2024-2025) and at the IERES, GWU (2022-2023). He is a member of Midwest Political Science Association, PONARS Eurasia Policy Network, Fulbright Alumni Association, and Ukrainian Political Science Association. Dr. Matsiyevsky is the author of one monograph (2016), twelve book chapters and numerous articles on various aspects of Ukrainian politics and regime dynamics.

Research interests:

• Ukrainian politics
• political regimes
• democratization and informal institutions in politics

Prof. Mykhailo (also Mikhail) Minakov

European University Viadrina

He is a senior advisor at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, professor at the Free University (Brīvā universitāte, Riga), and a philosopher and a scholar working in the areas of political philosophy, social theory, international development, and history of modernity. He is also the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal The Ideology and Politics Journal, of the Kennan Focus Ukraine blog, and of the philosophical web portal Koinè. Minakov is the author of seven books, co-author of another six books, and of numerous articles in philosophy, political analysis, and history. Mykhailo has over twenty years of experience in research and teaching in the universities of Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United States.

Research interests: 

• political systems and regimes, patronal politics and grand corruption, history of international relations, Eastern European and Northern Eurasian area studies (with a focus on Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova, as well as on the post-Soviet de facto states)
• ontology, human existence, history of philosophy, philosophy of history, social epistemology, and ideology theories

Prof. Maksym Obrizan

Kyiv School of Economics

He is an Associate Professor at Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) in Ukraine, which he joined in 2010 after earning his PhD in Economics from the University of Iowa (USA). He has published 26 SCOPUS-indexed papers with over 760 citations and an h-index of 10, focusing on transition economics, applied health economics, and macroeconomics. His work appeared in Journal of Comparative Economics, World Development, WHO Bulletin, and others. Maksym is an editor of RePEc series New Economic Papers in Transition Economics nd a regular reviewer of academic papers for international outlets. With 20 years of teaching experience across the USA, Ukraine, Georgia, and Germany, he has twice won KSE Best Professor Award. He has consulted for the World Bank, USAID, EBRD, and recently served as a Secretariat Researcher at the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All.

Research interests:

• transition and comparative economics
• applied health economics
• macroeconomics

Prof. Yaroslava Gnezdilova

Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine

She is Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Germanic Philology and Translation at Kyiv National Linguistic University, Ukraine. She is the member of Expert Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on the certification of scientific personnel in philological sciences and social communications. In 2024 Yaroslava Gnezdilova was awarded for her significant contribution to the development of education and science in Ukraine. She authored more than 70 scientific publications and two doctoral theses (CSc, 2007, and DSc, 2021) on detecting emotions in speech, discourse studies, manipulation, rhetoric and persuasion.

Research interests:

• public communication and manipulation
• emotions in speech
• political and media discourse studies

Yuliya Krylova-Grek

PhD, an Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, a researcher of Uppsala University, the director of NGO ‘Institute of Psycholinguistic Research’. She is an expert in psychology of language and media analysis and has research experience in the influence of media and political communication on public opinion and conflict dynamics. Additionally, she acts as a forensic linguist and psycholinguist, and an expert in the Crimea Human Right Group. Her work focuses on identifying hate speech, propaganda, and psychological impacts in media, particularly in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.  She has been a visiting scholar at Uppsala University, MacEwan University, and visiting professor at University of Hradec Králové.

Research interests: 

• language, media, and communication studies examined through the lens of sociolinguistics
• psychology of language

Prof. Nataliia Mushyrovska

Rivne State University for the Humanities & Open International University of Human Development ‘Ukraine’

She studied Philology at Rivne State University for the Humanities and received her Ph.D. in Ukrainian Literature from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She is Associate Professor at Rivne State University for the Humanities and at the Open International University of Human Development ‘Ukraine’. She has extensive teaching experience in linguistic disciplines. Her international experience includes research stays at the University of Vienna (Austria), the University of Granada and the University of Málaga (Spain), the University of Bologna (Italy), and Ghent University (Belgium), as well as presentations at numerous international conferences, including Università degli Studi di Milano and Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’ (Italy).
In Ukraine, she promoted Ukrainian language and literature, served on the juries of the Petro Jacyk International Ukrainian Language Competition and the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, lectured at the Rivne Regional Center for Retraining, and is a member of the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society. She was awarded distinctions from the Regional Department of Education and the Ukrainian Ministry of Education. Her research interests focus on discursive and cognitive strategies, linguistic mechanisms of identity construction, and national-cultural representation in texts.

Research interests:

• language as a symbolic system and semiotic resource
• linguistic mechanisms of identity construction
• discursive and cognitive strategies in communication
• political, media, and civic discourse in times of crisis

Dr. Liudmyla Pidkuimukha

She is a sociolinguist and Slavist specialising in language policy, ideology, and cultural studies. From May 2022 to April 2025, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Justus Liebig University Giessen, exploring language ideologies in Ukraine and Russia in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian war. She earned her Ph.D. in 2016 and has served as an Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a visiting lecturer at the Jagiellonian University. Dr Pidkuimukha has been a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto, TU Dresden, and FSU Jena. She co-founded the ‘Vision Ukraine: Education, Language, Migration’ network and advises the Young Scientists Council in Ukraine.

Research interests:

• language ideologies
• language policies
• language and cultural transformations

Prof. Nataliia Steblyna

Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University

She is a Ukrainian media researcher at Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University. She is the acting head of Journalism and Social Communications Department and the guarantor of the educational program “Political Journalism”. Her research interests are transformation of news in the digital times, modern political communication and computer assisted analysis of media texts. As a media analyst she cooperates with Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy and several Ukrainian media, covering the problems of Ukrainian regional media during the full-scale invasion, Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns, journalism education etc.

In summer semester 2025 Nataliia was teaching 3 seminar courses at the European University Viadrina:

• Digital instruments for media and political analysis
• Hacking and Restoring the Truth (Modern Russian propaganda studies)
• Media. War. Digitalization

Prof. Denys Chyk

Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy in Kremenets, Ukraine

He holds a Ph.D. and D.Sc. in Comparative Literature and currently serves as a professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and their Teaching Methods at Taras Shevchenko Regional Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy in Kremenets, Ukraine.

He is the author of many works on contemporary issues of comparative literature and Ukrainian literature, including the monograph ‘Longo sed proximus intervallo: жанрові системи української та англійської прози кінця XVIII – середини ХІХ ст.’ (2017). Since 2011, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the annual academic journal ‘Kremenets Comparative Studies’. Since the early days of the Russo-Ukrainian war, Denys Chyk has engaged in volunteering as a member of the Volunteer Centre ‘Kremenets. Army. SOS!!!’

Research interests:

• Literary genres studies
• Imagology
• Comparative typology

Alexander Dmitriev

Charles University in Prague

He is an intellectual historian and literary scholar currently working as an Assistant Professor at Charles University in Prague. From 2024 to 2025, he is also serving as a DAAD Guest Professor at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. His research focuses on intellectual history, Marxism, and literary theory in 20th-century Eastern Europe. One of his major publications is Atlantis of Soviet National Modernism (2021), co-authored with Galina Babak, where they explore the formal method in Ukrainian culture of the 1920s–1930s. Earlier, he published Marxism without Proletariat (2004), which examines the works of Georg Lukács and the early Frankfurt School. He is actively engaged in international research projects, regularly teach, and publish in several languages.

Research interests:

• intellectual history
• Orientalism
• exile

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Prof. Tetiana Hoshko

Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv

She is a professor in the History Department at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, specializing in the history of early modern towns in East-Central Europe (see https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1791-4346). She earned her Doctor of Historical Sciences degree from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2019. She was awarded fellowships from the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (2023), Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena (2023), University of Münster (2022-2023), German Historical Institute in Warsaw (2021-2022), Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta (2008-2009, 2013, and 2020), Polish National Commission for UNESCO (2011), Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (2005), etc. Additionally, she served as a consultant for the research project The Jagiellonians: Dynasty, Memory, Identity (Oxford University, 2015).

Research interests:

• History of early modern towns and town law
• Women’s history
• Ukrainian historiography

Dr. Nataliia Kotenko (Vusatiuk) 

Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine

She is a junior researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Textual Studies of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is a Ph.D. Candidate in Philology at the Department of literature of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine. Her doctoral project is entitled The Literary Critical Discourse of the Kyiv Neoclassicists.

She has published articles and book chapters on the history of the Ukrainian modernism and literary criticism of the 1920–1930s. She was a scholarship holder of the Deutsches Kulturforum östliches Europa (2022) and a fellow of the New Europe College in Bucharest (2023–2024). Together with Andrii Portnov she edited a German-Ukrainian edition of Oswald Burghardt`s anthology ‘Dichtung der Verdammten’ (Arco-Verlag, 2025).

Research interests:

• Ukrainian literary modernism
• History of literary criticism
• German-Ukrainian cultural relations

Prof. Albert Venher

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University

He is Chair of World History at the Historical Department of the Oles Honchar Dnipro National University. He received a PhD in history in 2012 with a thesis on the “Policy of Cultural Incorporation in Eastern Voivodeships of the Second Rzeczpospolita in 1918-1926”. From 2008 to 201, he was a postgraduate student at the Department of World History at Dnipro National University. Since 2023 he has been the Head of the Department of World History.  

Research interests:

• Intellectual history
• Oral history
• History of the Second World War
• History of national minorities in Ukraine

Dr. Hab. Nataliia Zalietok

Ukrainian Research Institute of Archival Affairs and Records Keeping

Dr. Hab. in History, Senior Researcher, the Head of the Department for Archival Studies at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Archival Affairs and Records Keeping. She investigates women's military service in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and conducts research in archival science. She was a Virtual Visitor to the Buffett Institute at Northwestern University (2022), an IU–Ukraine Nonresident Scholar (2022–2024), an Imre Kertész Kolleg Fellow and VUIAS Fellow abroad (2023–2024), a DAAD Future Ukraine Fellow (2024), a visiting scholar at the Osteuropa-Institut at Freie Universität Berlin (Scholars at Risk Program, 2025).

Research interests:

• gender and women’s history
• comparative history
• archival science