Fellows

Anastasiia Puhach is a PhD Candidate at the Criminal Law Department of Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Her dissertation, “The crime of Ecocide: International and Domestic Criminal Law Policy,” examines the necessity of recognizing ecocide as the fifth core international crime under the Rome Statute, as well as discovers challenges in the current framework of investigating grave environmental damage under Ukrainian Criminal Code.

Her research interests include international criminal law, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law, with a particular focus on environmental crimes, the crime of ecocide, the human right to a healthy environment, and the rights of future generations.

In 2024–2026, Anastasiia is an Invisible Graduate School scholar within the Invisible University for Ukraine project initiated by the Central European University. In spring 2025, she participated in the PROM short-term academic mobility program at the University of Łódź (Poland).

Currently, as a fellow of the Denkraum Ukraine project at the University of Regensburg, Anastasiia investigates the genesis of ecocide at the international level and explores its conceptual roots in Ukrainian legislation, with a particular interest in Ukraine’s environmental history of the 18th–20th centuries.

e-mail: a.o.pugach@nlu.edu.ua

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiia-puhach/ 

Volodymyr V. Kravchenko, Professor in the Department of History, Classics and Religion, and Director of the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada.) He is the author of about 200 publications on Ukrainian modern history and historiography, including articles, book chapters, monographs, and edited collections. Fields of interest include also history of East European, Russian and Soviet studies. 

Recently published:

• The Unpredictable Past? Reshaping Russian, Ukrainian, and East European Studies. Edmonton-Toronto: CIUS Press, 2024. 462 pages (Co-editor with Marko R. Stech).
• Kravchenko, Volodymyr. Ukrainian Historical Writing in North America during the Cold War: The Struggle for Recognition, Lexington Books, 2023, 312 pages.
• Kravchenko, Volodymyr. Kharkov/Kharkiv: A Borderland Capital. NY-London: Berghahn Books, 2023, 313 pages.

• Kravchenko, Volodymyr. The Ukrainian-Russian Borderland: History versus Geography. Montreal: McGill U Press, 2022, 352 pages.

Dr. Iryna Matsyshyna is a Professor of Political Science, PhD in Political Institutions and Processes.

Her research interests include political culture, visual technologies, symbolic politics, political folklore, and political anthropology. She has participated in the European project “Cross-Media and Quality Journalism”, is a fellow of the Mieroszewski Center scholarship program, and is a certified media literacy trainer.

Dr. Matsyshyna is the author of more than 200 scholarly works, including the monograph “Constructing the Political Reality of Ukraine.”

As a fellow of the Denkraum Ukraine project at the University of Regensburg, she is currently investigating the representation of Ukrainian forced migrants in German media. Her research focuses on visual narratives that help uncover filters and blockages in information flows, levels of social interaction and integration, as well as potential risks of bias.

In her analysis, she combines critical discourse analysis with computational methods, framing analysis, and other research tools.

The project aims to develop strategies for balanced, context-sensitive communication in integration policy.

Dr. Iryna Odrekhivska is a leading scholar specializing in Ukrainian and East European culture, literary and translation studies, and linguistics. She has been affiliated with University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies since 2023. She is also Associate Professor of Translation Studies at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, where she has directed the Center for Academic and Cross-cultural Communication. Previously, she was Wayne Vucinich Fellow at Stanford University (2019) and Coimbra Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Graz (2018). Dr. Odrekhivska has also supervised research projects run by the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2025, she co-edited with Oksana Dzera the authoritative volume “Translation in Ukraine (24 August 1991 – 24 February 2022)”, published by Lviv University Press (available in open access).

Her project under the Denkraum Ukraine Fellowship “Finding Voice: Ukrainian DPs in Post-WWII Regensburg – Cultural Entanglements, Translation and Identity” focuses on Regensburg as a significant locus of cultural and lingual entanglements for Ukrainian DPs in the immediate postwar period. Excavating the crossroads and unearthing the discourse of encounter through lingual mediation and translation, this study draws a range of Regensburg-placed instances that produced a culture of dialogue and reciprocity for DPs by integrating several languages, realigning intellectual horizons, and reframing Ukrainian literature. It revolves around the key research question – how did translation practices in post-war Regensburg contribute to the formation of a sense of “place” for the Ukrainian displaced, enabling them to establish a connection to local community? 

Dr. Sergiy Stelmakh is a Professor of History and Chief Research Fellow at the Institute of World History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. 

He holds a Doctor of Historical Sciences degree, with expertise in historiography, the theory and methodology of historical knowledge, and the history of Central and Eastern Europe. His academic interests focus on nationalism, memory politics, and intellectual history in imperial and post-imperial contexts.

Dr. Stelmakh has held teaching and research positions at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where he served as Professor in the Department of Central and Eastern Europe. He has been a visiting researcher at leading institutions in Germany, including the universities of Cologne, Leipzig, and Halle-Wittenberg, and has co-organised international seminars on nation-building, historical narratives, and identity formation in Eastern Europe.

He is the author of over 200 academic publications and regularly collaborates on interdisciplinary research initiatives related to the politics of history, the history of Germany, and cultural memory in Ukraine and the broader region. 

As a Fellow of the Denkraum Ukraine project at the University of Regensburg, Dr. Sergiy Stelmakh researches the “Russian factor” in Germany’s policy towards Ukraine in the 1990s. His work focuses on the re-evaluation of Germany’s relations with Eastern Europe after the collapse of the USSR, with particular emphasis on how Germany’s strategy towards Russia influenced its stance on Ukraine. The project critically analyzes the political, economic, and historiographical aspects of German policy, revealing the challenges of building trust, national identity, and foreign policy in the post-Cold War era.

Mykhailo Tupytsia was born in 1996. In 2018, graduated from the Master’s program at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. In 2023, he completed a PhD program in history at Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU). He currently works at UCU as a Lecturer at the Department of Liturgical Studies, Faculty of Philosophy and Theology, and as an executive assistant at the “Kyivan Christianity” research program. He is a young researcher and innovator at COST Action CA23137 “Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe 1500–1800”. Currently, he finalizes the PhD thesis on the topic “Cultural history of Mukachevo eparchy in the 18th century: parochial and monastic book collections”. As part of the fellowship, Mykhailo aims to concentrate on writing the chapter of the PhD thesis about the disciplining of the clergy and laity of Mukachevo eparchy in the 18th century and its impact on the community’s book culture.

Research interests: Early-Modern history of East-Central Europe, Book culture, Church history.

Dr. Vasyl Namoniuk is Head of the Department of International Finance at the Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, and a visiting professor at Chu Hai College of Higher Education in Hong Kong and Vilnius University Business School. He holds a PhD in World Economy and International Economic Relations. His expertise encompasses sustainable finance, green economy transitions, post-conflict economic recovery, and international financial system transformations. Dr. Namoniuk has extensive international experience, including research collaborations with GIZ on Ukraine's energy transition, work with USAID on trade barrier analysis, and participation as a National Team Expert in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM). He has received multiple international fellowships, including SARU scholarship at Copenhagen Business School and Global Campus Collaborative Virtual Visitorship at Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Dr. Namoniuk has held visiting academic positions through Erasmus+ programs at universities across Europe, including Erlangen-Nuremberg University, University of Aveiro, Pecs University and Mykolas Romeris University. As EEN Expert for the European Commission, he provides strategic guidance to SMEs on internationalization and green technology commercialization. Dr. Namoniuk has authored publications on sustainable finance mechanisms, green energy transitions, and post-war development scenarios, with recent work focusing on the integration of environmental, social, and governance criteria into investment strategies during economic reconstruction and Ukraine's sustainable recovery pathways.

Volodymyr Tokar is a professor at the Department of Software Engineering and Cybersecurity at the State University of Trade and Economics (Kyiv, Ukraine) and a visiting professor at KROK University. He holds a Doctor of Economic Sciences in Economic Security and a PhD in World Economy and International Relations. His expertise covers economic security, cybersecurity, gender equality, and European integration. Dr. Tokar has held visiting professorships in Poland, the United States, and Germany, including appointments at the University of Redlands, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, and the Free University of Berlin. He actively contributes to several EU-funded Jean Monnet projects on economic and gender security and serves on editorial boards and as a reviewer for international academic journals. He is also the founder and organizer of the annual international conference “Challenges and Reality of the IT-space: Software Engineering and Cybersecurity” held in cooperation with European academic partners.

Viktor Drozdov is an Associate Professor of the Department of History and Methods of Teaching and Chairman of the Danube Historical and Memorial Commission at Izmail State University of Humanities. In 2023, he completed doctoral studies at Zaporizhzhia National University. Currently, he is working on the monograph “Soviet Politics of Memory in the Annexed Ukrainian Territories in 1939-1953”.

Viktor has participated in the international research project “Ukraine-Moldova: Common Historical Memory, Lessons, and Prospects”. Additionally, he was a grant recipient of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and a fellow at the Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe. 

He is the author of over 75 scientific works in the fields of history, public management, and education. His academic interests include the politics of memory, historical regionalism, historical urbanism, and the history of Stalinism. 

As part of his fellowship, Viktor Drozdov is conducting a historical-comparative analysis of museum heritage in Ukrainian cities during the occupations of totalitarian Stalinist and authoritarian Putinist regimes. His study will focus on museums and museum collections in Western Ukrainian cities that the Soviet Union occupied during World War II, as well as Southern Ukrainian towns occupied by the Russian Federation following its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Vadym Miroshnychenko is a cultural studies scholar, writer, translator, and literary critic. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Kharkiv State Academy of Culture, where he currently works as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies and Museology. From 2022 to 2024, he was a Associate Professor at the Departments of Cultural Studies and Philosophy at the Ukrainian Catholic University, where he taught the courses «Ideology in the Discourse of the Humanities» and «Philosophical texts». In 2023, he received a research fellowship from the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) for his project «The Deconstruction of Incognito and a New Philosophical Language». In 2024, his collection of avant-garde texts «Māteria» was published by Kyiv-based publisher Komubook. That same year, Lviv-based publishing house Kontur released his Ukrainian translation of Catherine Malabou’s book «Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought». He co-founded the intellectual community Plateforme 15 and the media hub Baudelaire. He is currently a co-curator of the translation project Partisans of Culture and serves as a literary critic for the journal Krytyka. 

Vadym Miroshnychenko is the author of over 170 academic and popular science publications in scholarly journals and online media in Ukraine, France, and Poland, exploring topics in cultural theory, ideology, literature, and philosophy. His research interests focus on the deconstruction of the body and bodihood, the rethinking of the concepts of poetry and writing, the ideological implications of culture, and French Theory. 

As part of his current fellowship, he is working on the project «Ukrainian Poetry During Russia's Full-Scale Invasion: Representation of the Concept of the Body».

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Dr. Lesia Baranovska holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics at the V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is an Associate Professor at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. She is also the Founder and CEO of the Ukrainian Laboratory of Educational Research. Lesia Baranovska is the author of more than 170 scientific publications, including 6 monographs on Game Theory and AI and 30 textbooks on higher mathematics. Her research interests are Game Theory, Conflict-Controlled Processes, Computer Vision, and AI.

Dr. Baranovska is a certified international expert in the quality of higher education. Dr. Lesia Baranovska was the Chair of the Industry Expert Council (Mathematics and Statistics) at the National Agency for Higher Education Quality Assurance. 

She is a certified mathematician by Imperial College London, Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Tokyo, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is a member of the American Mathematical Society, a member of a network of European Women in Mathematics, a member of the London Mathematical Society, a member of the Association of Women in Mathematical Physics, and a member of the Data Science Association. Dr.Baranovska is an Editor and Reviewer of several international scientific journals in the USA, Japan, Brazil, Estonia, and India. 

During her fellowship, Lesia will work on a project on conflict-controlled processes with time delay. 

Tetiana Marchuk is an Associate Professor at the English Philology Department at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. Her research interests primarily focus on Comparative Literature Studies, Modern Drama, Critical Thinking, Translation Studies, Academic Integrity, Information Literacy, and Media Literacy. 

Tetiana is the author of over twenty scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals, including “Ukrainian Modernist Drama in the European Context”(2022). This work highlights the progressive development of Ukrainian drama at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, revealing the significant influence of German Expressionism and avant-garde theater on its evolution. She participated in an Erasmus+ Teaching Assignment under the project KA171-2022 for the academic year 2023/2024 at Akademia Yakuba z Paradyza in Gorzów Wielkopolskim, where she delivered a course of lectures titled “Translation and Literary Interaction.”

As a member of the nonprofit organization "Center for Communication Research," Tetiana has played a key role in a think-tank group that worked on the "English for Media Literacy" grant project, supported by the IREX Council for International Research and Exchanges. She contributed to the development of the "Media Literacy Toolkit in the English Language Classroom," (2021) an English-language manual designed to enhance critical thinking and media literacy among students. 

In her scholarship, Tetiana Marchuk is developing her research to explore the creative influence of German Expressionists on Ukrainian literary and theatrical life in the early 20th century, thereby preserving the cultural heritage shared by the two nations.

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Mariia Shevchenko is a historian and Senior Lecturer at the Department of History and Political Theory at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of the National Technical University "Dnipro Polytechnic" (Ukraine).

She was awarded the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences in 2019. She teaches the following subjects: History of Ukraine, Demography, and History of Education.

Her academic interests include migration processes, forced labourers, and women's history.

In recent years, Mariia has taken part in several research projects. In 2023, she was a fellow of the Ukrainian-German Historical Commission (Munich), where she conducted research in the Arolsen Archives. She was also a fellow at the Centre for Urban History (Lviv), where she carried out a comprehensive analysis of documents and materials that provide insight into the living conditions of repatriates in the post-war years.

As part of this fellowship, she is researching the situation of Ukrainian forced labourers in Germany during the Second World War, using the example of the camps in Regensburg. She is analysing documents held in the State Archive of the Dnipropetrovsk Region, including filtration files, photographs, and official letters. The rich informational content of these documents forms a kind of dossier on individuals who worked in the territory of the Third Reich. Their uniqueness lies in the fact that these are all original materials, possessing a high degree of authenticity and reliability.

Serhii Lunin is a historian and translator from Kharkiv. Currently he is a Ph.D. student at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.

As translator and fact checker (academic editor) he has collaborated for several years with Serhii Plokhy, the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor at Harvard University. His translations of Plokhy’s books into Russian include “The Gates of Europe” and “The Man with the poison gun”.

In 2015 Mr. Lunin won the translators’ competition held by the University of Lisbon — “Por outras palavras” (“In other words”). In 2022 he authored an article in Portuguese about the sociolinguistic history of Ukraine — “Como a língua nos ajuda a entender a guerra na Ucrânia” (“How the language helps us understand the war in Ukraine”), published at 24.sapo.pt.

For many years his main scholarly interest lied in “Холодний Яр” (“The Cold Ravine”, as it is sometimes translated), a memoir by Yurii Horlis-Horsky. This book seems an adventure story, however it is a valuable account of the events of 1920 in a remote corner of Central Ukraine. It has been immensely popular with the Ukrainian nationalists since 1930s and continues to grow in popularity.

On the other hand, its various editions printed since 1991 contain a posthumously distorted text and the commentary (if available at all) is amateurish. No translation into any language had appeared until 2022, when his Russian translation was published in St. Petersburg with an extensive commentary (296 notes). Already in 2017 an “academic edition” in original Ukranian, prepared by Serhii Lunin, was printed in Kharkiv, accompanied by five articles on relevant subjects (the textual history, the book as a source, the author’s biography etc.). The latter is the first edition where not only any posthumous distortions are absent, but also the corrections in the last edition of the author’s lifetime (Lviv, 1938) are taken into account.

Since 2015 he has been interested in the language question in different parts of the world. It is a topic which, although vital for the Ukrainian society where the debates around language grow more acrimonious if not yet violent, is almost totally ignored by Ukrainian scholars — the notable exception being “Language policy in multilingual countries”, a monography by Volodymyr Kulyk. In 2016 Mr. Lunin published a short column on the former Luso-Castilian bilingualism in Portugal. In 2022 he produced a review of Kulyk’s book and an article on the Norwegian language conflict which, although unfinished due to the outbreak of the full-scale war, contains much more information on the subject than any previous text in Ukrainian.

Now Serhii Lunin aims to research different cases when the so-called “language of the enemy” was used by those who strived to liberate their country from the same enemy. In the 17th century alone there were four such cases in Europe: Portugal, Catalonia, the Lands of the Czech Crown and Ukraine.

Andrii Smyrnov is a professor at the Department of history at the National University of Ostroh Academy (Ukraine). His research interests are focused primarily on the church history, religious studies, church-state relations, and ecumenism. Dr. Smyrnov earned his Doctor of Historical Sciences degree in 2021 at the National University of Ostroh Academy. He is the author of Between the Cross, the Swastika and the Red Star: Ukrainian Orthodoxy during the Second World War (2021) as well as a number of publications on the history of religion.

Dr. Smyrnov serves as a member of the Expert Council under the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience, Synodal Commission for the inter-Christian relations of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, Pathways to Peace Initiative steering group of the Conference of European Churches, and the World Council of Churches reference group for the pilgrimage of justice, reconciliation and unity.

Vitaliі Naіda is a Ukrainian scientist, writer and police officer. He is currently a senior researcher at the research laboratory of socio-psychological support, support and rehabilitation of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Educational and Scientific Institute No. 3 of the Kharkiv National University of Internal Affairs, head of the School of Scientific Leadership of the university and coordinator of the branch of the university's legal clinic in Vinnytsia. 

Vitaliі Naіda is a Doctor of Philosophy in Law, the author of over 110 scientific publications, a fellow of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and was awarded the scholarship of the President of Ukraine for young writers and artists for a number of published poems, essays and literary scripts. 

Vitaliі Naіda has also implemented several social projects, in particular, currently, together with the Vinnytsia Regional Association of Local Governments and the Central-Western Department of Free Legal Aid of the Northern Interregional Center for Free Legal Aid, he holds consultative meetings for local councils and residents of territorial communities of Vinnytsia region on current legal issues. 

In his scientific research and works of art, Vitalii Naida considers a wide range of problematic issues of administrative and legal support for police interaction with the public, in particular under martial law, and proposes amendments to Ukrainian legislation. Vitaliі Naida is also interested in the administrative and legal support for organizing scientific activities under martial law.

Olena Syniavska is an Associate Professor, Candidate of Historical Sciences (speciality 07.00.01 - History of Ukraine). Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the Department of History of Ukraine and Special Historical Disciplines at the Odesa I.I.Mechnikov National University, teaching courses on the history of Ukraine and Ukrainian culture, cultural heritage and historical memory, local history, and history of education. Her research interests focus on certain aspects of the sociocultural development of Ukrainian lands in the context of the political, social and cultural history of Central and Eastern Europe in the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries, in particular the history of education and scientific institutions in the southern region of Ukraine, local history and intellectual biography. She is a participant in international conferences and seminars in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and Germany, and co-organiser of various projects on the history of the southern region of Ukraine and Odesa. 

As part of her scholarship, Olena Syniavska is researching archival materials stored in the State Archives of the Odesa Region in order to compile a list of the names of people of German descent who were persecuted in the 1930s and who worked at the Odesa German Pedagogical Institute and other educational institutions in Odesa.

Vadym Adadurov is a historian and specialist in historical anthropology, sociology, and biographical studies.

In 2002, he took part in the interdisciplinary doctoral program at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. In 2004, he received a French interdisciplinary degree in Religion and Sciences of Society (directeur d’études Claude Langlois, consultant membre de l’Institut Jean Tulard). DEA: “The Religious Policy of Napoleon in the Duchy of Warsaw (1806–1813)”. After his return to Ukraine, he has been working in various positions (lecturer, associate professor, professor, head of the department) at the Faculty of Humanities of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. In 2008,  he received his degree of the Doctor of Historical Sciences (HDR) from the Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (advisor Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak). Dissertation: “Napoléonide” in the East of Europe: Perceptions, Projects, and Actions of the French Government towards the South-Western Borderlands of the Russian Empire at the dawn of the 19th Century”.

Vadym Adadurov obtained several fellowships and he taught at the scholarly institutions France, Austria, Germany, Poland, USA, and the Vatican. He also published more than hundred publications in seven languages, including 6 monographs and 2 anthologies of historical sources. The latest books, published in 2024 and 2025, are dedicated to the biographies of Ukrainian intellectuals Ilko Borschak (1894-1959) and Viktor Petrov / V. Domontovych (1894-1969).

Head and board member of Analytical Center JurFem, Ph.D. in Law (thesis “Forensic examination models in criminal proceedings applied in European countries and Ukraine”, 2023), Assistant of the Department of criminal procedure and criminalistics, – Faculty of Law, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. 

She studied law at the University of Bologna under the Erasmus+ program (2018) and was a participant in the Internship Program at the Office of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine – Department of Relations with Judicial Bodies (2019). She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Wroclaw, Poland (2020) and the University of Alberta, Canada (2022). In 2022 – the lecturer of the course “Gender equality and women’s rights in Ukraine” at the University of Alberta.

Area of ​​research interests: involving an expert in criminal proceedings and the possibility of using expert opinions as evidence; pre-trial investigation of the CRSV; pre-trial investigation of criminal offenses related to domestic violence; pre-trial investigation of criminal offenses against sexual freedom and inviolability.

Area of ​​professional responsibility: organization of the work of the Analytical Center JurFem, expert involvement in the development of draft legal acts, preparation of research in the field of women’s rights protection and other areas of work of the JurFem Analytical Center.

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Born on November 5, 1972, in Kherson. Doctor of Philology, Tetyana Shevchuk is Professor of the Department of English Philology and World Literature at Izmail State University of Humanities. She is the author of over 150 scientific works in literary studies, art history, and regional studies, published in Ukrainian, English, Bulgarian, and Romanian. As an art historian and the secretary of the Izmail Municipal Organization of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, she is a moderator of its site, a compiler of the album «Artists of Bessarabia» (2020), a collective monograph «The Cultural Space of the Bessarabian Bulgarians» (2018), and other works. 

Maryna Litvinova graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1988 with a degree in Physics. In 1997, she received her PhD in Physics and Mathematics, and in 2019, she received her Doctorate in Education. She also holds a master's degree in psychology and a master's degree in system software and is the author of more than 100 scientific and educational publications. Currently, he is a professor at the Department of Software Engineering, Physics and Mathematics at the Kherson Educational and Research Institute of the Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding, Ukraine. She has devoted her main psychological and pedagogical research to the adapted teaching of students with a special style of thinking that has developed in the digital society (mosaic thinking). She also explores the features of youth education, which are formed adequately in different psychological and social contexts. As a guest lecturer at the Kherson Academy of Continuous Education of the Kherson Regional Council, she teaches teachers of the Kherson region innovative original pedagogical methods.

• Doctor PhD of Cultural Studies (specialty 26.00.01 - theory and history of culture, diploma DK No. 047818 dated July 5, 2018. Dissertation theme: «Cultural-creative potential of religious tourism: the formation of Ukrainian experience»);

• Associate Professor (Certificate of Associate Professor of the Department of In 2019, she received the academic title of associate professor of the «Art Management and Event Technologies» department.

• She teaches disciplines: «Pilgrimage and religious tourism», «Modern cultural practices», «Art management», «Art journalism». 

• Field of scientific activity: culture, tourism, history, religious studies, management, social communications. 

• Author and co-author: more than 100 publications in the sphere of tourism, including: 2 monographs, theses and materials of international conferences, as well as articles in scientific professional and international publications including Scopus (7 articles), participation in International grant projects (Germany, Bavaria).

Svitlana Panchenko is studying the scientific theme «Development of religious tourism and the promotion of pilgrimage in Ukraine», as well as various types of tourism, including international, social and religious. She defended her dissertation on «Cultural-creative potential of religious tourism: the formation of Ukrainian experience», continues studying the pilgrimage routes of the holy apostles, considers their missionary journeys in terms of modern religious tourism to sacred sites. Currently, Svitlana is writing a monograph about these pilgrimages and missionary travels. 

Vadym Osin is a political scientist, an Associate Professor at the Department of History and Political Theory, Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Dnipro University of Technology (Ukraine). 

He received his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2003 from Dnipropetrovsk National University. Thesis title is Content analysis as means of political science constitution and reproduction.

His main research interests are politics of knowledge in the post-Soviet space and the impact of Ukraine’s neopatrimonial political regime on Academia, sociology of science, postcolonial theory, and history of political science. 

He is the author of more than 70 studies, including monographs and has developed numerous academic courses for BA and MA students enrolled in Political Science program. His published works include Processes of constitution and reproduction in science: researching content analysis variations (Dnipropetrovsk, 2007), Power and Knowledge in Post-Soviet Space: Political Regime, Academic Degree, Ideology and Career in Ukraine and Moldova (co-authored with Angela Zelenschi and Sergiy Shulyak, Vilnius, 2014), Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova in the context of geopolitical strategies of the USA, EU and the Russian Federation: axiological ideals and forced praxis of executive and legislative powers in Ukraine (content analysis of press) (collective monograph, Torun, 2015), and Scientists and Power in the context of political science in post-Soviet Ukraine (collective monograph, Kyiv, 2016).

In the frames of this fellowship, Dr. Osin will reveal temporal dynamics of power/knowledge patterns of obtaining academic degrees in public administration by applicants from outside the Academia during 1999-2024. 

Andrii Krasniashchykh (born 1970) is a lecturer (since 1992) and an associate professor (since 2020) at the Department of the Foreign Literature and Classic Philology in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology in 1992 and completed his postgraduate studied at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in 1997. In 2000, he received his PhD in Philology (literature of foreign countries). His thesis is entitled “James Joyce: peculiarity of the artistic world and the problem of creative method (Joyce’s Ulysses)”. Dr. Krasniashchych has developed and teaches the following modules on UG programs “History of World Literature”, “Mythopoetics of foreign literature of XX–XXI centuries”, etc. Under his scientific guidance, six PhD (candidate) theses were defended, where the works of modern authors and writers of the 20th century were studied using the mytho-critical method. Author of more than fifty scientific publications in Ukrainian and international scientific journals. 

In his research he explores literature at the time of crisis (how historic transformations are reflected in identity shifts and literature imagination). He has given lectures on the topic of related phenomena, namely the revision of the imperial and Soviet heritage during the Russian-Ukrainian war – at the University of Regensburg (2015), the Munich Institute of Foreign Languages and Translators (2022), the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø (2023); he also gave presentations on this topic at conferences at the University of Oslo

(2016) and the University of Tartu (2017). He was three times a participant of festivals-symposiums of Ukrainian and German writers “Eine Brücke aus Papier” (2016, 2017, 2022). He was twice a participant in the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna) project “Documenting Ukraine” (2022, 2023).

His essays and articles about everyday life in Kharkiv during the Russianinvasion of 2022 and about the life of displaced persons in Poltava were translated into German and published by “Literaturportal Bayern”. His work has been also translated into English, Estonian, Latvian, Czech, Polish, Norwegian.

Selected books:

• “All to pieces. Kharkiv: As bombs fall. Poltava: Displaced persons” (Kharkiv: Prava lyudyny, 2023) and as “God exists. +/-. Kharkiv: As bombs fall. Poltava: Displaced persons” (Freedom Letters, 2023), translation of this book into Estonian: Andri Krasnjaštšõhh “Jumal on. +/-” (Tallinn: Loomingu Raamatukogu, 2024)

• “Sholem Aleichem” (Kharkiv: Folio, 2020)

• “Writers in Kharkiv. Slutsky” (Kharkiv: Prava lyudyny, 2020)

• "Kharkiv in the Mirror of World Literature" (Kharkiv: Folio, 2007, with Konstantin Belayev)

• "Ukrainian Nostradamus" (Kharkiv: Folio, 2005)

Dmytro Hordiienko was born on 8 March 1977 in small town Ponornytsia (Chernihiv Region, Ukraine) and graduated from secondary school there. He is a graduate of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. In 2013, he defended his PhD thesis on ‘Byzantine-Rus’ relations during the reign of Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus’. Dmytro Hordiienko is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Classical, Byzantine and Medieval Monuments of the Mykhajlo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography and Source Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Leading Researcher at the ‘St. Sophia Institute’ of the National Conservation Area of St. Sophia in Kyiv. Author of over 300 academic publications, including 3 monographs, on the history of Ukraine, Byzantium and Medieval Europe. Executive secretary of the editorial boards and managing editor of the journals ‘Ucrainica Mediaevalia’ and ‘Byzantinoucrainica’. He is married and has two daughters, aged 3 and 9.

Oleksii Ankhym is an associate professor at the Department of Germanic Philology and Foreign Literature (Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University, Ukraine). His scientific interests are theory of literature, modern German-language literature and transnational literature. He is currently working on his research „Ukrainians in Germany: on contemporary German-language literature by authors of Ukrainian origin“, which aims to acquaint Ukrainian and world society with the works by modern German-speaking authors of Ukrainian origin.

Iryna Holotova is a Junior Researcher in the O. O. Potebnia Institute of Linguistics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is currently involved in the research of the personal naming system of the representatives of the Polish national community of Ukraine from 1991 to 2019. Investigating the anthroponymy of the national minorities of Ukraine, she is focused on Polish-Ukrainian linguistic and cultural contacts, the language consciousness of the national minorities of Ukraine, and the linguistic landscape on the Polish-Ukrainian borderlands. 

During her PhD studies, Iryna Holotova participated in many scholarship programs, such as The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Scholarship Grantee (2019), The Program of Internship for Youth at the Apparatus of the Parliament of Ukraine (2021), The Scholarship Program of the Government of Poland for the Young Scientists (2022-2023), etc. 

As a DU Fellow, she conducts research dedicated to the main tendencies of the personal naming system of the ethnic Poles of Ukraine in the context of the theory of post-colonialism. She also considers the impact of sociolinguistic factors, such as religion, national identity, language and political situations, etc., on the personal naming system of the ethnic Poles of Ukraine in 1991-2019. Along with researching the personal naming system of the ethnic Poles of Ukraine, her research interests include historical grammar of the Slavic languages, onomastics, sociolinguistics, Ukrainian-Polish language contacts, and comparative linguistics.

Research Area: Cultural History. 

Oleksii Kuraiev is a Ukrainian researcher of the history of political and cultural contacts of Ukraine with Germany in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. 

As a research associate at the M.S. Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography and Sources of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, he is engaged in the acquisition, processing and publication of unknown German-language sources on the position of German politicians, diplomats and intellectuals on Ukrainian issues in early and late Wilhelmine Germany, especially during the reign of Otto von Bismarck and the First World War. Thanks to the cooperation with many German experts on Ukraine, he was able to discover important unexplored German and Austrian archival documents and thus substantially expand the ideas about Wilhelmine policy on Ukraine. These research results are presented in two monographs and numerous articles in Ukraine and Germany.

In addition, now also as a DU Fellow, he is working on a new topic, the interpretation of an important and little-researched masterpiece of German cartography and political figurative graphics, the first German map of Ukraine by the Nuremberg cartographer and publisher Johann Baptist Homann. It was published in 1711 under the title “Ukrania quae Terra Cosaccorum ...” (Ukraine or Land of the Cossacks ...” and represents a rare historical phenomenon in which the south-western border of Ukraine is identical to that of the medieval principality of Halyč (Polish: Halicz), and where the Land of the Cossacks shows its largest territorial dimensions in comparison to all other Western European maps of Ukraine. This research also examines the extent to which the legal and political conditions in the Holy Roman Empire of the early 18th century were able to eliminate Moscow's claims to Cossack Ukraine.   

Inna Volosevych 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 is working on a research project Mobilization and Social Cohesion in Ukraine - The Frictions of Domestic and International Burden-Sharing with Dr. Fabian Burkhardt, Dr. Christofer Berglund, Felix Hett.

Her research interests:

• War and conflict studies

• Gender studies

• Migration studies

• Employment studies

• Values studies

• Mental health studies

Tetyana Panchenko is a Ukrainian social and political scientist specializing in migration and displacement. As a professor at Karazin Kharkiv National University, she researches the social and political impacts of forced migration, particularly on Ukrainian refugees. In recent years, Tetyana has contributed to several research projects, including her role as a Research Specialist at the ifo Center for International Institutional Comparison and Migration Research in Munich (2022–2024), where she investigated the adaptation strategies of Ukrainian refugees. She also held a KIU Fellowship at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (2024–2025), conducting her project “On the Border of Two Spaces: The Transformative Experience of Ukrainian Refugees in Germany.” 

As a DU Fellow, she continues her longitudinal study on the transformative experiences of Ukrainian refugees. Her current research project, “Displaced People as Human Capital for Ukraine’s Recovery: The Case of Germany,” explores how displaced Ukrainians, while integrating into a new environment, preserve their national identity and ties to their homeland—and how they contribute to Ukraine’s struggle, resistance, and recovery.