Current Academic Position

Assistant Professor, School of History, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

Higher and Postgraduate Education

2008–2014: Candidate of History (PhD equivalent) V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

1997–2002: Master of Arts (School of History, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)

Languages

Russian – native speaker, Ukrainian – fluent, English – B2

Employment History

2019-present: Associate Professor, Department of Historiography, Source Studies, and Archeology, School of History, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

2012–2019: Lecturer, Department of Historiography, Source Studies, and Archeology, School of History, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

2010–2012: Research Fellow, Kharkiv University History Museum, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

2002–2006: Academic Affairs Coordinator, School of History, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University

2001–2002: Teacher of History, Secondary school №125, Kharkiv

PhD Thesis

The Formation and Development of Historiography as an Academic and Scientific Discipline at the Imperial Kharkiv University. Dnipropetrovsk, 2014.

Fellowships, awards and research grants

2013–2015 Research Project “University Culture in the Ukrainian Intellectual Space (19^th - Early 21^st Century)”, sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

2015–2016 Research Project “Kharkiv University (1917–1941) in the Memory of Its Faculty and Alumni” Collection of Documents (Kharkiv, 2016, in Ukrainian), sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.

07.2018 Mobility Grant, International Summer School “Public History: Methods, Difficulties, Perspectives”at Wroclaw University, Poland.

2018–2021 Research Project “Practices of the Self-Representation of Multinational Cities in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Era”, supported by Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.

05.2022 Internship at Universytet Gdanski within Polish-Ukrainian scientific programme (Poland).

06.2022 Erasmus+ academic mobility program at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany.

2022Research Project «City аnd War: Destruction, Preservation and Rethinking of the Urban Cultural Heritage of Large Cities in Eastern and Southern Ukraine within the Russia's Military Aggression», supported by Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.

2022 to present Research Oral History Project “Moving West”: Ukrainian Academics in Conditions of Forced Migration (2014-2022), sponsored by Max Plank Institute for the History of Science.

Reсent Research Project

• Historiographical Dissertations of the Era of Ukrainian Independence through the Prism of the Quantitative Method (Analysis ofthe Database of Authors’ Abstracts of Dissertations)
• “From Academic Liberalism to Party Scholarship”: Transformation the Professional Ethos of Historians During the 1910-1920s (the Case of University Historians in the Ukrainian Lands)

Selected Publications

Book

• Formation and Development of Historiography at the Imperial Kharkiv University (Kharkiv, 2014, in Ukrainian)
• “Please Do Not Decline”: Appeals of Humanities Scholars and Members of Their Families to the Authorities in the Early 1920s: Collection of Documents (Kharkiv, 2021, inUkrainian)

Co-author of books

• Kharkiv University (1917–1941) in the Memory of Its Faculty and Alumni: Collection of Documents (Kharkiv, 2016, in Ukrainian) sponsored by the CIUS, University of Alberta.
• V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (1991–2013): Chronicle of Events (Kharkiv, 2015, in Ukrainian)
• The Historian and Power / Institute of Ukrainian History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, 2016, in Ukrainian)
• Classic ahead of time: to 215 Anniversary of Karazin University (Kharkiv, 2020, in Ukraine).
• In Search of the Face of the City: Practices of the Self-Representation of Multinational Cities in the Industrial and Post-Industrial Era (Kharkiv, 2021, in Ukraine)

Selected Article

• “The Values of University Culture through the Prism of Feelings (on the Basis of Memoirs of Students and Professors of the Imperial Kharkiv University)” in Dialogue with Time. Intellectual History Review, 2017, Issue 60, p. 111–127 (Moscow, in Russian, in Scopus).
• “The Ethical Aspects of Historiographical Criticism” in Między wolnością a zniewoleniem wartości w historiografii polskiej i środkowoeuropejskiej od końca XVIII po początki XXI wieku. Red. naukowa Barbara Klassa i Leonid Zaszkilniak. – Gdańsk, 2020. (Poland, in English).
• “I was Close to Despair … My Work Rescued me”: V.P. Buzeskul in 1920s// Laurea: изследвания и материали в чест на 80-та годишнина на доценту В.Попов. – Велико Търново, 2021. – С. 289-306.(with S. Posokhov, Veliko Tyrnovo, Bolgary, in Russian).

Selected Conference Talks

• “Emotional Self-Presentation in Historians` Autobiographies, Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century,” delivered at the International MAG Convention “The Image of the Self” (Lviv, Ukraine, June 27-29, 2018).
• “Emotional Aspects of Collective Memory Actualization (on the Materials of Monumental Memorial Sites in Ukraine),” delivered at the international scholarly conference “Public History: Methods, Difficulties, Perspectives” (Wroclaw, Poland, July 2-5, 2018).
• “Practices of the Representation of Monumental Memory Sites in Today’s Mass Media (the Case of Kharkiv)” at the International Conference of Historical Tourism and Historiography „Sites of Memory-History-Tourism” (Gdansk,Poland, October 17-18, 2019)
• «Historiographical Dissertations of the Era of Ukrainian Independence through the Prism of the Quantitative Method» at the International Conference “Changes and Expectations: Facing new orientations and research trends in Polish and Ukrainian historical science” (Lublin,Poland, May 27-28, 2022).
• «Ukrainian Academics in Conditions of Forced Migration after Russian Invasion of Ukraine: “expectations” and “results”» at the International Conference “Migrations in the age of social crises” (Lodz, Poland, September 22-23, 2022).

Editorial Board Memberships

2010-2017 Executive Secretary of Kharkiv Historiographical Review - Харківський історіографічний збірник.

2019 to present The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. History - Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Історія.

2015 – to present Member of «Polish Ukrainian HistoriographicalCommunity» (Towarzystwa Historiograficznego).