2022 – Lvivcenter

Albert Venger

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:31:41 +0000

He graduated from the Faculty of History of Dnipro National University in 2008. He is a Ph.D. in History and head of the world history department at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University. He is the author of three individual and two collective monographs and the compiler of one collection of documents. His main research interests include the history of ethnic communities in Ukraine and intellectual history. In 2022, he received a scholarship from the Foundation for Jewish Studies in Wroclaw in cooperation with the Center for Urban History.

He participated in several international research projects, some of which focused on the lives of people with mental and physical disabilities during the Nazi occupation. He became a guest editor of the 28th issue of the scientific journal "Ukraina Moderna. The Useless People: War Crimes, Judgement, (Non)Memory". In 2020, he led a team of historians that won the Second International History Hackathon; and based on the team's work, an educational platform, was created. In 2022, he participated in the project "The Many Faces of Ukraine: mapping Ukraine's ethnic diversity" supported by the University of St.Gallen.

He is currently working on completing a monographic and archeographic work on the lives of patients and medical staff of psychiatric hospitals in the Dnipro region during the Nazi occupation.

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Maria Gryshchenko

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:34:21 +0000

Researcher at the Center for Urban Studies, a guest lecturer in social studies and participatory urban planning at the Kharkiv School of Architecture and the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture.

Maria studied sociology at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, having a Master's degree in sociology. She participated in short interdisciplinary educational programs and summer schools for urban researchers and planners in Georgia, Austria, Germany, Portugal, Romania, the Netherlands, Ukraine, and Estonia.

She participated in interdisciplinary projects in the field of urban development and education for urban planners and civic activists as a researcher, expert in the field of research and involvement, as well as a facilitator of educational processes. She worked in the teams of CANactions School, the project "Integrated Urban Development of Ukraine", Cedos, CUS. She contributed to the writing of the sections on Integrated Spatial Development of the second edition of the manual for territorial communities: "A practical manual on spatial planning of territories designed for employees of executive bodies of local self-government", and also participated in the creation of an educational platform for communities within the framework of the project "Integrated Spatial Planning for Amalgamated Territorial Communities", implemented by CANactions School with the support of ULEAD.

The key areas of Maria's research interest are urban communities, urban grassroots movements and participation practices of citizens in decision-making processes, implementation of policies in the field of involvement of key actors and stakeholders in spatial development processes, and development of humanitarian education in the field of spatial planning. Key publications include research on the network of urban grassroots initiatives in Ukrainian cities and the interaction of civil society institutions with local authorities in Ukrainian cities.

At the Center for Urban History, she received a scholarship, with the support of the University of Lund, and participates in projects to document the experiences of war; she will also be joining educational initiatives.

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Volodymyr Masliychuk

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 23:11:35 +0000

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of History of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. 1996 - Graduated from the History Faculty of Kharkiv State University, 2001 - Defended his Candidate thesis, 2019 - Doctoral Thesis. Since 2019, he has been working at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy teaching courses on the methodology of history and historiography and the history of the nineteenth century, special courses on women's history

Author of seven monographs, the last one: In captivity of borders and narratives: Research on the history of Sloboda Ukraine XVII-XIX centuries. Kharkiv: Publisher Oleksandr Savchuk, 2021.
Compiler and editor of a number of collections and collective monographs. The recent one, co-authored with Ihor Serdiuk: Disenchantment of the ailment. Local tradition, old diseases and new medicine in Ukraine XVIII-XIX centuries./ Collective monograph ed. V. Masliichuk and I. Serdiuk. Kharkiv: Publisher Oleksandr Savchuk, 2021. He has received many research grants from the funds of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and the Shevchenko Scientific Society in America.

In 2021, together with their colleagues, they worked on the topic "Quality of life and demographic characteristics of the population of Nadnipryanska Ukraine in the second half of the XVIII – early XX centuries." The research interests include an urban way of life in towns of the Left Bank of Ukraine (Poltava and Chernihiv provinces) that have not been affected by intensive industrial transformations (Poltava, Romny, Nizhyn, Pryluky, Chernihiv, Hlukhiv), and that is common for the south and east of Ukraine, studies of the traditional world and modernization incursions. The researcher also focuses on the history of education (the appearance of educational institutions, admission to school, women's education, and the role of local institutions), especially from the "post-reform period" of the 70s. Nineteenth – early twentieth centuries and study of the activities of local government bodies (rural councils) that were quite successful in this area.

At the Center for Urban History, he received a fellowship supported by the Körber-Stiftung (Hamburg) and the Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg.

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Roman Moldavskyi

Thu, 19 May 2022 13:59:14 +0000

Graduated from the Faculty of History at Zaporizhzhya State University. He defended his Ph.D. thesis on the military history of Southern Ukraine in the last quarter of the 18th century. He taught at the Department of Source Studies, Historiography and Special Historical Disciplines of the Zaporizhzhya National University. For the last two years, he worked at the National Museum of the Genocide Holodomor.

Since 2001, he has been taking an active part in ethnographic and archaeographic expeditions of the Zaporizhzhya Novytsky Scientific Society. For 15 years, he was the head of ethnographic expeditions of students of the historical faculty of ZNU. He participated in the projects – "Oral History of Steppe Ukraine", "Forgotten Diary", "Oral History of the Russian-Ukrainian War of 2014 – 2015". He is the editor of this series of publications.

In recent years, he has been engaged in studying the history of childhood through the prism of the Genocide Holodomor. In 2019, a monograph "Institutional Care for Children on the eve and in the years of the Holodomor 1932 – 1933" was co-authored with I.M. Shuhalyova.

Roman received a fellowship at the Center for Urban History in cooperation with Lund University. He participates in projects to document the experience of the war, and he will also be involved in educational initiatives.

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Yevhen Horb

Sun, 24 Apr 2022 19:27:49 +0000

Independent researcher, historian, translator. Over the past few years, he has been actively exploring the issues of creating Russian historical myths of the military history of Central and Eastern Europe of the 17th-19th centuries, which were built as a result of the domination of the Russian imperial and Soviet methodology in history. These developments resulted in two scientific monographs published in Poland during 2019-2021: Lwów-Jezierna. Kampania kozacko-moskiewska roku 1655. Zabrze – Tarnowskie Góry, 2019 (co-authored); Belgrad – Oczaków. Konfrontacja Imperium Osmańskiego z koalicją rosyjsko-austriacką w 1788 roku. Zabrze – Tarnowskie Góry, 2021. As of now, Yevhen has prepared the third monograph for publication, scheduled for 2022. Other current projects include the preparation and graphic processing of historical maps for a number of publications by Polish scholars, the translation and critical publication in Polish of classical military-historical works of Russian and Ukrainian scientists of the 19th – early 20th century (together with the Inforteditions publishing house).

Yevhen is a graduate of the Master's Program from Mariupol State University, majoring in History, and a post-graduate school of Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University, where at the Department of World History he worked on thesis research on: "The Activities of Political Parties in the Second Polish Commonwealth of the Period of Parliamentary Democracy (1918-1926)" (academic supervisor – Doctor of Philosophy, Professor V.A. Morhun). Author of more than 40 scientific publications in Ukrainian and Polish. He cooperates with the Polish-Ukrainian Information Portal as a journalist.

He works at the Center for Urban History as part of a scholarship in cooperation with the Institute of Human Sciences, dedicated to documenting the 2022 war of Russia against Ukraine.

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Serhii Pakhomenko

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:13:36 +0000

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Mariupol State University. In 1996, he graduated from Mariupol State University majoring in History. In 2003, he defended his PhD thesis on "Cultural Development of the Greek Community of Ukraine in the Second Half of the 20th Century" at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv). He has 26 years of experience in teaching and research; he teaches disciplines in history, political science, and social communication.

Award holder of the Ivan Vyhovsky Award from the Institute of Eastern Europe of the University of Warsaw (2017). As part of the program, he took an internship at the Catholic University of Lublin and the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Latvia (2020) and the Jan Skütte Institute of Political Studies of the University of Tartu (2021). He was the academic coordinator of the Erasmus+ project "Rethinking Regional Studios: Baltic-Black Sea Communication" and headed the Center of Baltic-Black Sea Studies of Mariupol State University.

Recent publications include articles in collective monographs of Springer Publishing House - "Between History and Propaganda: Estonia and Latvia in Russian Historical Narratives", "Russian-Ukrainian War in Donbas: History as a Tool of Propaganda," and in a number of foreign specialized publications – "Securitization of Memory During the Pandemic: Cases of Russia and Latvia," "Memory Policy in Latvia and Ukraine," etc.

Academic interests: memory policy, oral history, ethnopolitics, nationalism studies, political development of the Baltic states.

Serhii Pakhomenko received a fellowship at the Center for Urban History in cooperation with Lund University. He participates in projects to document the experience of Russian aggression against Ukraine.

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Alla Petrenko-Lysak

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:00:58 +0000

Associate Professor at the Department of Sectoral Sociology of the Faculty of Sociology at Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. Research focus includes the study of social space, cities, urban everyday life, and the latest spatial mobility. Co-author of the "Sociology" course of the "Kharkiv School of Architecture". Researcher in urban projects, supervisor of research practices (research partners include CEDOS, Agents of Change, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Natalka Park NGO, YozhkaKultura NGO, MistoSad NGO). Within the research scope, Alla acted as an expert, lecturer, and speaker in urban projects and educational programs on urban development (in particular, the architectural competition from "SAGA", the architectural festival "CanAction", and "Ukrainian Urban Forum" and other urban and cultural events.

Alla is the author of scientific and popular texts on urban life, the author of the blog "city transition" ("Rubric" website), and a participant in a number of media projects and public discussions on social, urban, and cultural topics. She is the author of the manual "Social Space in the Interdisciplinary Dimension" which offers an analytical consideration of a wide variety of spaces, from physical to virtual, from the standpoint of various sciences such as sociology, psychology, cultural studies, philosophy, social geography. Co-author of the manual "How to explore public spaces in Ukraine: trends and methods" - sections "What are public spaces?" and "We study people", and methodological recommendations for conducting online public surveys in the planning of public spaces of the European Council Project "Promoting citizen participation in the democratic decision-making process in Ukraine".

Alla works at the Center for Urban History as part of a scholarship in cooperation with the Institute of Human Sciences. She participates in projects to document war experiences and she will also be engaged in educational initiatives.

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Valentyna Shevchenko

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 23:28:50 +0000

Senior research fellow at the Institute of the History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Valentyna Shevchenko mastered her history major in Vynnychenko Kirovohrad State Pedagogical University where she had lectured until 2005, and was a deputy dean. In 2009, she defended her Candidate thesis on the development of banking activities in South of Ukraine in the 19th and early 20th century.

Valentyna is the author / compiler of over 60 research, training and methodological works on the history of Ukraine of the 19th and early 20th century and law studies, such as the monograph on "Private Banking Business in Odesa (19th – early 20th century), Kyiv, 2010;" chapters in such collective publications as the "Economic History of Ukraine: Historical and Economic Study: in 2 Vol., Kyiv, 2011," "The Great War of 1914–1918 and Ukraine. In 2 vol., K., 2014–2015." Since 2011, she has been member of the organization committee of the annual International Scientific Conference "History of Trade, Taxes, and Custom Duties" (Dnipro); she is an acting secretary of the editorial board of the collection of papers on “Issues of the History of Ukraine of the 19th – early 20th century". Valentyna also participated in two research summer schools - "Jewish History and Culture of the Central and East Europe of the 19-20th centuries." (Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine, 2012) and "Catching up or Falling Behind? Institutions, Geography and Economic Development of Eastern Europe in the Long Run" (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 2014). Moreover, she stayed on the research residence on "Building Public Space of a Modern City in Ukraine (second half of the 19th century and early 20th century)" (Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine, 2019).

Her research focus is on historical urban studies, social and economic history of Ukraine of the 19-20th century, Ukrainian context of the First World War.

Presently, in addition to studying the process of building a public space of Ukraine’s cities in the Modern era, Valentyna lays much focus on exploring the aspects of keeping memories about the First World War in Ukrainian society (historical memory and commemorative practices, memoirs and epistolary heritage, visual chronicles of the frontline life). In 2020–2021, she participated in a research project "A Human in the War: Ukrainian Society through the Lens of the First and Second World Wars" implemented under the Program Supporting Nationally Prioritized Scholarly Studies and Research and Development (experimental projects) of the NAS of Ukraine.

At the Center for Urban History, she participates in projects on documenting experiences of war; she will also engage in education initiatives.

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Artem Kharchenko

Fri, 25 Mar 2022 23:23:36 +0000

An associate professor at the Department of Ukrainian Studies, Culturology, and the History of Science at the National Technical University "KhPI" in Kharkiv, where he works on a monograph "Jewish Community Within the Space of an Imperial City, 1859–1914." He is a lecturer on the history of the Holocaust of the university partner program “Claims Conference”. Co-founder of the "Center for research of interethnic relations of Eastern Europe.” NGO. Artem’s research offers an outlook on Jewish population in the South of Russian Empire Beyond the Pale of Settlement. The research focuses on the issue of internal Jewish migration, relations of Jewish population with imperial authorities, and the diversity of the region’s Jewish communities.

Artem studied history in Karazin National University of Kharkiv. He defended his Candidate thesis on the history of family in Kharkiv region in the 19th century. He worked on the project "System of Orphanages in Soviet Ukraine in the Holodomor period, 1928-1935." In 2011, he participated in a research summer school "Jewish history and culture of East and Central Europe in the 19-20th centuries" at the Center for Urban History, Lviv. He participated in education programs in the USA, France, and Germany. He was a guest researcher at the Simon Dubnov Institute in Leipzig, New European College in Bucharest, Jerusalem University. Some recent publications include chapters in a collective monograph "Uman. (Un) known stories of the city," Kharkiv, 2021.

In the Center for Urban History, he participates in projects for documenting war experiences; in addition, he will be joining education initiatives.

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