Viktoriia Ivashchenko

Viktoriia Ivashchenko studied history at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, obtaining her PhD in 2004 with a dissertation on nineteenth-century university memoirs. Since 2005, she has been an associate professor at the Department of Historiography, Source Studies, and Archeology at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. In addition, she took on the role of director at the V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University History Museum in 2017.

Her research interests center around the peculiarities of the representation of the scientific community in ego-documents. Viktoriia’s current oral history research project at the MPIWG (together with Yulia Kiseleva) deals with the study of the forced migration of historians from areas of military conflict in Ukraine from 2014 to 2022. She is currently working on the following research projects: “Aberration of Memory in the Autobiographies of University Professors of the Russian Empire from the Late-Eighteenth to the Early-Twentieth Century” and “M. Drinov’s Epistolary Heritage” in collaboration with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

She was an editor of the series Kharkiv University in the Memory of Its Faculty and Alumni: Collection of Documents (Kharkiv, 2004–2016, in Ukrainian). She has also participated in the international research project “Transfer and Adaptation of University Education in the Russian Empire from the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century” (2008–2010) at DHI Moscow and which is supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, as well as the project “University Culture in the Ukrainian Intellectual Space” (2004–2013), supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.