Olexandr Kolomyichuk

Olexandr Kolomyichuk

M. T. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics, and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine


  • Research topic:
    Empathy in the "Field" of the Current Russian-Ukrainian War: From Documentation to the Publication of Testimonies
    Period:
    2026
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Ethnologist, anthropologist, PhD in history. He graduated from the Institute of History, Political Science, and International Relations at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University. He defended his dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences on the topic "Autumn-Winter Calendar Customs and Rituals of the Boikos in the Second Half of the 19th – Early 21st Centuries" (2015). He worked as a senior research fellow at the museum of the "Demianiv Laz" Memorial Complex. Since December 2020, he has been a junior research fellow, and since July 2023, a research fellow in the "Ukrainian Ethnological Centre" at the Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics, and Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. 

He completed an internship at the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw (November–December 2016). Recipient of scholarships from international educational and research programs: the Government of the Republic of Poland for young researchers (2017–2018) and the International Visegrad Fund (2018–2019). He completed a postdoctoral internship at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw. Graduate of the 29th Eastern Summer School of the Center for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw (2019). In 2024–2025, in collaboration with ethnologists from the Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnology, he carried out the oral history research project "Contemporary Wartime Daily Life in Kyiv Region Communities: A Cultural-Anthropological Dimension." Based on the results of the research, a sourcebook titled "Kyiv Region Unbroken: Eyewitness Accounts of the Russian-Ukrainian War" was published (Kyiv, 2025).

As part of the LivArch fellowship for documentation and archiving of the war at the Center for Urban History, he will continue his research on empathy as a key tool in the "field" of the current Russian-Ukrainian war, applied across the spectrum from documentation to the publication of testimonies. The research will be based on materials from the academic oral history project, mentioned above, which was implemented as part of a grant from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine to research laboratories and groups of young scientists at the NASU for conducting research in priority areas of science and technology development in 2024–2025.