Iryna Piatnytskova
Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University
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- Research topic:
- Destruction of Ukraine's Cultural Heritage in the Optics of Documentation Initiatives
- Period:
- July-September 2025
Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University
Historian, PhD (2010). Associate Professor of the Department of History and Archeology at Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University. She graduated from Donetsk National University with a degree in history (2007). She defended her PhD thesis on the role of the cooperative movement in the life of the population of southern Ukraine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
She was a scholarship holder of the Center for Urban History's residency program in 2022/2023 and also received a scholarship at the Center with the support of the Kerber Foundation and the Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg for researchers affected by Russia's war against Ukraine.
Since 2022, she has been a participant in the documentary project "Researching the Collecting, Preserving, Analyzing, and Disclosing of Ukrainian War Testimonies" (U-CORE).
During the LivArch War Documentation and Archiving Fellowship at the Center for Urban History, she will work on identifying, analyzing the methodology and content of documentation projects that document the cultural heritage of Ukraine destroyed and damaged by Russia at both the national and regional levels.