Myroslava Smolnitska
Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
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- Research topic:
- Spatial Metadata in Oral Accounts of the War
- Period:
- June 2026
Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Historian and senior research fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where she has worked since 2000. She researches the social and cultural history of 20th-century Ukraine, focusing on everyday life, memory, and traumatic experiences.
In her work, she actively uses oral testimonies and personal sources in combination with archival materials, particularly in local and microhistorical studies. In her current projects related to documenting the war, she focuses on issues of describing sensitive data and the spatial dimension of experience in oral narratives.
During her residency at the Center for Oral History as part of the LivArch scholarship for documentation and archiving, she will investigate how the spatial experience of war is reflected in oral testimonies and how its uneven documentation affects the understanding of changes in everyday life and social ties. Working with interviews, she will focus on why space in narratives often remains incompletely recorded and how this limits the possibilities for their further analysis.