Stories

Have We Ever Been Modern? Modernism, Modernity, and Modernization in Twentieth-Century Ukraine

Course director: Volodymyr Ryzhkovskyi (Independent Researcher) This course offers a critical perspective on twentieth-century Ukrainian history by situating…

Intellectual Debates in Modern Ukrainian History

Course co-directors: Ostap Sereda (UCU/BCB) and Balázs Trencsényi (CEU) This course will be structured around the main political,…

War after War in the former Yugoslav Space

Course director: Vladimir Petrovic (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies) The course rests on a UNDP-sponsored…

The Future (of the) Balkans: Rethinking Balkans for Ukraine

Course co-directors: Marija Mandić (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade) and Aleksandar Pavlović (Institute for…

Exposing Injustice: German–Ukrainian Students for Human Rights

Are you interested in digital investigations, human rights, and international justice? Do you want to work with students…

Solomiia Beska

Solomiia Beska

Solomiia Beska is a legal scholar and cybersecurity researcher specializing in information protection, cyber resilience, and hybrid warfare.…

Bohdan Krawchenko

Bohdan Krawchenko

Bohdan Krawchenko is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Afghanistan Research Initiative at the University of…

Natalia Dziadyk

Natalia Dziadyk

Natalia Dziadyk is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Public Policy at Central European University and a…

Yuliia Karpets

Yuliia Karpets

Yuliia Karpets is a Ph.D. student at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.” Her research focuses on the…

Robert Person

Robert Person

Robert Person is a Professor of International Relations at the United States Military Academy and director of West…

Margarita Zavadskaya

Margarita Zavadskaya

Margarita Zavadskaya is a senior research fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) and a researcher…

Mariana Myrosh

Mariana Myrosh

Mariana Myrosh is a Master’s student in Cultural Studies program at the Catholic University of Leuven. Her academic…

Sasha Kokhan

Sasha Kokhan

Sasha Kokhan is an MA student in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University.

Taras Fedirko

Taras Fedirko

Taras Fedirko is a political and economic anthropologist studying war, media, and oligarchy in Ukraine. He is a…

Sergiy Kudelia

Sergiy Kudelia

Serhiy Kudelia is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, where he teaches courses on political…

Arina Kravchenko

Arina Kravchenko

Arina Kravchenko is a Ukrainian journalist, editor, and book reviewer. Her research interests include literary history, postcolonial studies,…

Mykola Riabchuk

Mykola Riabchuk

Mykola Riabchuk is a Ukrainian poet, translator, prose writer, and essayist. He is the honorary president of the…

Oleksandr Kozytskyi

Oleksandr Kozytskyi

Oleksandr is a Master’s student in History at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His research interests focus…

Anastasia Kostenko

Anastasia Kostenko

Anastasia Kostenko has a bachelor’s degree in Philology from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and is currently…

Nadiia Chervinska

Nadiia Chervinska

Nadiia is a researcher, curator, and cultural manager. She holds…

Kateryna Osypchuk

Kateryna Osypchuk

Kateryna is a History in the Public Sphere Erasmus Mundus…

Yevhen Yashchuk

Yevhen Yashchuk

Yevhen Yashchuk is a DPhil Student in History at the…

Kateryna Lysenko

Kateryna Lysenko

Bachelor’s student in Philosophy at the University of Leipzig.

Nataliia Shuliakova

Nataliia Shuliakova

Bachelor’s student in History at Yale University. Research Assistant in Forced Migration…