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Current Academic Position

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

Higher and postgraduate education

• Candidate of History, School of History, Dnepropertovsk National University, Ukraine (2004)
• Master of Arts, School of History, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine (1998)

Languages

• Ukrainian, Russian, English, Polish

Employment history

• School of History, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Lecturer, 2005–until now
• Museum of History, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Director, 2013–2024
• School of History, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Deputy Dean, 2010–2013
• Middle School №18, Kharkiv Teacher, 1998–1999

PhD Thesis

• Memoirs of the Professors and Students Concerning the History of Kharkiv University of the 19th – early 20th Centuries. Dnipropetrovsk, 2004

Fellowships, scholarships, awards and research grants obtained

• 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, 1 October 2022 – 31 March 2023; Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen Documenting Ukraine Fall 2023 Grant.
• June 19–24, 2023 Erasmus+. Staff mobility for Training between Karazin Kharkiv National University and University of Gdansk, Faculty of History (Gdansk, Poland).
• 2022 The Association for Women in Slavic Studies stipend
• 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. The Chief of the project.
• 2008–2010 International Research Project “Ubi universitas – Ibi Europa. Transfer and adaptation of university ideas in the Russian Empire of the second half of the 18th – first half of the 19th century” supported by Gerda Henkel Stiftung (AZ 02/SR/08)
• 2004–2008, 2012–2013 Research Project “University Culture in the Ukrainian Intellectual Space (19th - Early 21st Century)”, sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Selected Publications

Co-author of books

• Kharkiv University of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries in the Memoirs of Its Professors and Alumni: Collection of Documents (Kharkiv, 2008–2010, in Ukrainian)
• History of Sweet Life. Essays on the History of Sweets Production in Kharkiv (Kharkiv, 2010, in Ukrainian)
• V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (1991–2013): Chronicle of Events (Kharkiv, 2015, in Ukrainian)
• Kharkiv University (1917–1941) in the Memoirs of Its Faculty and Alumni: Collection of Documents (Kharkiv, 2016, in Ukrainian)
• Facing the World: History of International Relations of Karazin’s University (Kharkiv, 2016, in Ukrainian)
• Classic ahead of time: to 215 Anniversary of Karazin University (Kharkiv, 2020, in Ukraine).
• Kharkiv University (1941–1945 рр.) in the Memoirs of Its Faculty and Alumni: Collection of Documents (Kharkiv, 2023, in Ukrainian)
• Marin Drinov: Letters, telegrams, reports. 1859-1905: Collection of Documents (Sofia, 2023, in Bulgarian)

Selected Article

• ”One’s” and ”Somebody else’s” in the University Memory (On Memories Materials of Kharkiv University 1920–1930) in Kharkiv Historiographical Review, 2016, № 15, p. 174–187 (in Ukrainian). https://periodicals.karazin.ua/historiography/article/view/9454/8976
• Constructing “the Life Course” in Autobiographies of Ukrainian Historians in the 19th – early 20th centuries in Historiographical studies in Ukraine, 2018, № 29, p. 50–65 (in Ukrainian). http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/160400
• Universities of the Russian Empire in Autobiographies of Historians in the 19th – early 20th Centuries: “Events”, “Actors”, “Stories” in The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series: History, 2019, № 56, p. 46-55 (in Ukrainian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.26565/2220-7929-2019-56-05
• Vignettes in the Margins: Women in the Autobiographies of Scholars from the Late 19th to Early 20th Century in Women's Dimensions of the Past: Perceptions, Experiences, Representations: a collective monograph. Lviv, 2023. P. 20–35 (in Ukrainian).
• “I Am Stronger Now, I Know I Can Do So Much”: Women Academics in Conditions of Forced Migration During the Russian-Ukrainian War in L'Homme. Europäische für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 2024, № 1, p. 99–118 DOI: https://lhomme.univie.ac.at/de/lhomme-z-f-g/news/single-view-news/news/ukraine-12024/ (with Y. Kiselyova, in English, in Scopus).
• “To live your life not in vain”. Ukrainian academics’ experience of forced migration in Poland in Historia i Świat, 2024, № 13, p. 489–510 (with Y. Kiselyova, in English, in Scopus) DOI: https://doi.org/10.34739/his.2024.13.29 .
• Oral History Project “Moving West: Ukrainian Academics in Conditions of Forced Migration (2014–2024)”: Issues Of Research Methodology in The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series History, 2024, № 65, p. 199–227 (with Y. Kiselyova, in English). DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.26565/2220-7929-2024-65-09

Editorial Board Memberships

• until 2017 Kharkiv Historiographical Review – Харківський історіографічний збірник.
• The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. History – Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Історія.

Professional memberships

• Member of the Ukrainian Oral History Association
• Member of the Museum Association (2022–2024)
• Honorary member of National Union of Local Lore Researchers of Ukraine (2005)

Teaching Experience (COURSES)

• The Special Historical Disciplines
• The Methodology of Teaching History at School
• The Oral History: Theory and Practice
• The Museum Innovations
• The Teaching Internship

Research Interests

• Source Study (ego-documents)
• History of Universities
• Intellectual and Cultural History
• Oral History
• Museology
• Migration Studies