Dr. Nadia Skokova

researcher (2024 - present)

Historian, Ph.D. dissertation about the formation of the modern identity of Eastern Galicia Jews (Ukrainian Catholic University, 2023). She researches the social and political history of Central and Eastern Europe, the development and implementation of national minority rights, the transformation of traditional society, modern processes, and the development of political consciousness of non-historical nations.

She is a participant in international research, archival, and educational projects and has also experience in journalism and publishing (2020-2023). She took part in summer schools and scholarly internships at the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, Tel Aviv University, the University of Wrocław, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute.

In 2023, she received a fellowship from the Center for Urban History, supported by the Foundation for Jewish Studies in Wrocław, to research the history of the Jewish ghetto in Lviv.

Her new research projects focus on the following topics: Jewish politics and public space in Austrian Lviv; self-government as an instrument of civil society in the dialogue with state authorities; the perception of the Ukrainian question in Jewish public discourses of the interwar period; and reconsidering the institution of violence and prehistory of the Lviv ghetto.

  • The East Galician Zionist Federation and the Polish Governments of 1922-1926 // Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, vol.18 (2020) P.85-97.
  • National Choice: development of the Jewish political movement in East Galicia (1860-1922) // Ukrainian Historical Herald, vol.21. – Kyiv, 2019 (into Ukrainian).
  • Local Self-Government of the Jewish National Minority of East Galicia: from Tradition to Modernization (1918-1924)// Hileya. – Vol.146. – 2019. – P.94-96 (into Ukrainian).
  • Integration of the Zionist Party into Political Space of East Galicia (1918-1922) // Ukrainian Historical Herald, vol.20. – Kyiv, 2018 (into Ukrainian).