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Contact address:l.blikharska@lvivcenter.org.ua
Historian, researcher, archivist at the Urban Media Archive project (2025-now)
She earned her bachelor's degree in history from the Studies in Central and Eastern Europe: Histories, Cultures and Societies program at the Jagiellonian University, where she did her research titled "Educational Ideals in a Dominican Lower Seminary (Boarding School) in Żółkiew" (2020). She received her master's degree in history at the Faculty of Humanities of the Ukrainian Catholic University, where she defended her master's thesis on "To Become a Soviet Scholar": Ivan Krypiakevych and the Soviet System" (2022). Currently, she is finishing her PhD studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University, where she is working on writing an intellectual biography of the historian Ivan Krypiakevych.
She has participated in training programs, summer schools, internships, and scholarships at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), the International Cultural Center (MCK), the Amsterdam University of the Arts (Rijksakademie), The Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies "Tkuma", the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI), the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS), the Institute for the Humanities (IWM), and the Central European, Nottingham and Bielefeld universities. Since September 2023, she is a students’ mentor of the Invisible University for Ukraine program at the Central European University. She has been a member of the youth council, student government, student organizations, and was a member of the teams and leadership of several NGOs working in the fields of non-formal education, cultural heritage preservation, and civil society development.
In May 2025, she started working at the Urban Media Archive of the Center for Urban History, where she works with the collection of Visual War Documentation and continues to develop her dissertation research on intellectual history, contextualizing it within urban, social, and cultural history of Lviv in the XIXth and XXth c.
Her research interests include: intellectual history, oral history, digital humanities, and history of education. She focuses on the relationship between intellectuals and authorities, the everyday life and phenomenon of volunteering in the ongoing war, digital archives, school education in interwar Galicia, and the contested heritage of World War II.