2025-2026 Non-Residential Scholars

Nadiia Bureiko is ‘Ukraine Abroad’ Program Director at the Foreign Policy Council ‘Ukrainian Prism’ (Kyiv). Most recently she has also been research fellow at the the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, the George Washington University and at the Institute for Advanced Studies, the Central European University. She held teaching and research positions at the Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania, and the Centre for Culture and Governance in Europe, the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Prior to this, she completed her postdoctoral research at the University of St. Gallen as a holder of Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship and at the New Europe College as a holder of Pontica Magna Scholarship. Nadiia completed her MA in International Relations and PhD in Political Science at Yurii Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine, where she also worked as an assistant professor at the Department of International Relations. 

Dr. Bureiko has coordinated and conducted research in international projects funded by the European Commission, the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, the Research Council of Norway, the International Visegrad Fund, the Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation, and USAID. She has published academic articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Eastern Journal of European Studies, and contributed to books published by Routledge and Manchester University Press. Nadiia is also the editor and contributor to policy-oriented analytical reports, including the annual assessment of Ukraine’s foreign policy that recieved a high assessment from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.  

Vladyslav Davydov is an Advisor to the First Deputy Minister for Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine. His research and professional interests include economic policy, recovery and reconstruction, macroeconomics, sanctions, and regional development.  

Before his current position, Vladyslav served as Advisor to the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Economic Development of Ukraine, where he worked on strategic initiatives related to Ukraine’s recovery, entrepreneurship support, and industrial policy.  

Vladyslav holds a Master degree in Public Policy and Governance from the Kyiv School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. 

Oleksandr Fisun is a professor and chair of the political science department at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. He earned his B.A. with Highest Honors in Political Economy in 1987, followed by a Candidate of Philosophical Sciences degree in 1990, and a D.Sc. habilitation in Political Science in 2009. His research primarily focuses on Ukrainian and post-Soviet politics. 

Over the past decade, Dr. Fisun has held visiting fellowships at various academic institutions, including the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta, the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Amsterdam, the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto, the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies in Warsaw, the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, and the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at George Washington University. 

Dr. Fisun's publications include the book "Democracy, Neopatrimonialism, and Global Transformations" (Kharkiv, 2006) as well as numerous chapters and articles on comparative democratization, informal politics, neopatrimonialism, and regime change in Ukraine and post-Soviet Eurasia. 

Additionally, Dr. Fisun serves as the President of the "Observatory of Democracy" policy research center he founded in 2016 with a group of political experts to enhance democratic accountability, civic activism, free and fair elections, and citizen awareness in eastern frontline Ukrainian regions. 

Halyna Hleba is an art historian and curator of exhibition projects, public, and educational programs on Ukrainian art. She examines how artistic practices function as cultural documentation, forms of resistance, and instruments of memory-making. She holds a degree in Art History and Theory from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, and an MA in Memory Studies and Public History from the Kyiv School of Economics. 

She is a co-founder and former editor-in-chief of The Wartime Art Archive (a project by MOCA NGO that documents artistic responses to Russia’s full-scale invasion), and a co-founder and current researcher at the Memory Studies and Public History Lab at the Kyiv School of Economics. Her curatorial and academic work explores the role of artists in shaping collective memory and public historical narratives. 

She has collaborated with the Grynyov Art Foundation and the Research Platform at the PinchukArtCentre, and served as guest editor of SALIUT, a magazine on Ukrainian photography. Her practice focuses on contemporary Ukrainian art in wartime, with particular attention to local memory cultures, the experiences of artists serving in the military, and the visual representation of war. 

Svitlana Kaiuk is an Associate Professor of History of Ukraine at Oles Honchar Dnipro National University. Her research focuses on the history of Southern Ukraine, Ukrainian Cossacks, Crimea, the Ottoman Empire, the Turkic and Muslim components of Ukrainian history, intellectual history, and the politics of memory. She is the moderator of the online academic seminar and YouTube channel History of Crimea and the Black Sea Region, organized in cooperation with the Institute of History and the Institute of Archival Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. At the University, she teaches original courses including The Muslim World of Ukraine: History and Future, Jews and Muslims in the History of Ukraine, and The Frontier Dimension of Ukrainian History. 

Dr. Kaiuk is a member of the international scholarly networks PIEES (Platform of International Eastern European Studies) and GTOT (Gesellschaft für Turkologie, Osmanistik und Türkeiforschung), and was an Associate Member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in 2022. She is the author of the monograph Echoes of a Lost Muslim Civilization: The Provocative Discourse of Ismail Gasprinsky and a co-author of collective monographs including The Ukrainian Multifrontier: A New Outline of Ukrainian History (Neolithic – Early 20th Century) and Muslims of Central Eurasia in the 21st Century: Challenges, Opportunities, and Prospects. 

Her current research project, War, Borders, Migrations: From the Everyday Life of Migrants to the World of Ideas (The Crossing of the Long 18th and 19th Centuries in the Northern Black Sea Region), examines the intersections of social history, migration studies, and intellectual exchange in a frontier zone. 

Gennadii Korolov, Dr. habil., associate professor, historian, and political scientist. He serves as Principal Investigator at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Mieroszewski Centre in Warsaw. He is also a member of the Polish-Ukrainian Commission for the Study of Relations in 1917–1921. 

Prof. Korolov has taught and conducted research at several institutions, including the Institute of Ukrainian History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv), the University of Warsaw, Harvard University, Hokkaido University, the University of Vienna, the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg, and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). 

His current research focuses on the period of wars and revolutions (1914–1923), the history of political and social concepts in East Central Europe, 19th- and 20th-century intellectual history, and Polish-Ukrainian relations. He is the author of a monograph on federalist projects in East Central Europe (1815–1921) and has published approximately 70 articles and essays. 

Tamara Kutsaieva is a scholar affiliated with the National Historical-Architectural Museum “The Fortress of Kyiv” and completed her PhD in the history of Ukraine at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine). Since 2017, she has been studying historical book collections of the 19th century neglected at the soviet era from collections of Kyiv museums. 

Ms. Kutsaieva’s scientific interests are united by Book studies, Heritage studies, Museology and the polyculture history of Ukraine (mostly, Judaica). Since 2022, she has been developing Military Museology for Ukraine, which, through the new crisis concept of “Historical Museum Collection”, will allow Ukrainian culture to adapt at the theoretical and methodological levels to the irreversible losses of state museum collections, as well as to form a culture of memory about these losses during the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine. 

Ms. Kutsaieva published two monographs (“Memories of Polish reading culture of the Modern era in the reflections of Polish provenance marks (the Second half of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th century)” (2023; by a grant from the scholarship program “Badaj na Ukrainie” from “Centrum Dialogu im. Juliusza Mieroszewskiego”, Poland) and “The found and perceived: Judaica in the collection of the main historical museum of Ukraine” (2024; by a grant from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the USA). 

Iryna Maidanik is the Leading Researcher in the Department of Migration Studies at the Institute for Demography and Life Quality Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. I hold a PhD degree in Sociology and specialize in Ukrainian migration issues. Earlier, I primarily studied labor migration from Ukraine abroad, but after the full-scale Russian invasion, I began focusing on forced migration. I have almost 100 publications, including two personal books titled "Ukrainian Youth in Foreign Labor Markets, 2010" and "Temporal Characteristics of External Labor Migration in Ukraine, 2020". I have collaborated with IOM Ukraine and served as the principal investigator in Ukraine for the TEMPER project, conducted under the 7th Framework Program. I act as a peer reviewer for scientific journals in Ukraine ('Ukrainian Society', ‘Demography and Social Economy’) and abroad (“International Migration”, “Innovation”). 

Olha Maletova is legal scholar and practitioner specialising in corruption as a social phenomenon, anti-corruption strategies, and the intersection of digitalisation with corruption prevention. Dr. Maletova holds a Doctor of Law degree (2021) from Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs, where her habitation thesis examined "The Concept of Criminal Law Counteraction to Corruption in Ukraine," and a Ph.D. in Criminal Law and Criminology (2016) from the National Academy of Internal Affairs, Kyiv. 

Since 2021, Dr Maletova has served as Head of the Criminal Law and Procedure Department at Sumy State University, where she leads cutting-edge research on law enforcement cooperation and anti-corruption methodologies. She currently directs multiple state-funded research projects, including investigations into corruption during martial law and post-war reconstruction, international technical assistance oversight, and institutional consolidation in crisis conditions. 

Dr Maletova's expertise extends beyond academia through her active engagement in public oversight and policy development. She serves as a member of the Public Oversight Council at the State Bureau of Investigation and holds leadership roles in working groups focused on anti-corruption system improvement at both municipal and regional levels. Her contributions to Ukrainian governance reform are recognised through her position as Chair of the Council of Young Scientists under Sumy Oblast State Administration. 

Her scholarly achievements have been recognised at the highest levels, including scholarships from both the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for young scientists. Dr Maletova's research combines theoretical rigour with practical application, contributing to evidence-based policy development in corruption prevention and democratic governance under challenging conditions. 

Natalia Mushak, Dr. Hab., is Professor of International and European Law at State University “Kyiv Aviation Institute”. She specializes in EU Law, Schengen Law, Human Rights, and International Commercial Arbitration, with over 80 publications including books, articles, and course programs.  

Dr. Mushak has held academic positions at leading Ukrainian institutions, including Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv University of Law, and the State Academy of Administration under the President of Ukraine. Her teaching portfolio includes courses on EU Law, EU Migration Law, International Law, and Constitutional Law of Ukraine. Beyond academia, she has contributed to policy as a Senior Expert at the Ministry of Ecology of Ukraine within the international project Association for You, and as a secretary assistant in an EU–Ukraine international trade dispute. 

Dr. Mushak has been a visiting scholar at Kiel Albrecht University (Germany), Masaryk University (the Czech Republic), European Humanitarian University (Lithuania), Gdansk University (Poland), Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), Leona Kozminskiego Academy (Poland). Representative Speaker from Ukraine at the World Law Congresses in New York (USA), Barranquilla (Colombia), Madrid (Spain), Regensburg (Germany) etc. She has also contributed to policy through roles in the Ministry of Ecology and as a secretary assistant in an EU-Ukraine trade dispute. Her work bridges academic excellence and practical legal expertise in European integration and governance. 

Prof. Mushak has extensive international experience as a visiting professor, having taught and conducted research at Kiel Albrecht University (Germany), Adam Mickiewicz University (Poland), Gdańsk University (Poland), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), European Humanitarian University (Lithuania), and Kozminski Academy (Poland). She has been awarded prestigious fellowships, including those from the Volkswagen Foundation (Germany), Fundusz Obywatelski (Poland), Perugia University (Italy), and KIU (Germany). 

Prof. Mushak combines academic excellence with practical legal expertise, advancing scholarship and dialogue on European integration, governance, and human rights. 

Sergii Pakhomenko, PhD in history (2003) is Associate Professor of the Political Science and International Relations Department of Mariupol State University (relocated to Kyiv); Senior Researcher of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of University of Latvia. His research interests include the politics of memory in Ukraine, Russia and the Baltic states, propaganda and information warfare. 

His recent articles are Between History and Propaganda: Estonia and Latvia in Russian Historical Narratives; Securitization of Memory in the Pandemic Period: Case of Russia and Latvia; Politics of Memory in Latvia and Ukraine: Official Narratives and the Challenges of Counter-Memory. He developed the lecture course and coursebook «Historical Narratives in Propaganda» 

Sergii Pakhomenko was a visiting fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute of University of Helsinki (2024), visiting fellow at the University of Tartu (Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies) (2021), and academic coordinator from Mariupol State University of Erasmus+ project Rethinking Regional Studies: Baltic-Black Sea Relations (2017-2020). 

Olesya Protsenko was born in the Kyiv region (Boyarka, Ukraine) and has been living in the city of Bucha since 1985.  From 1997 to 2022, she studied at the Institute of Philology at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Since 2022, she has been pursuing her graduate studies at the Institute of Philology at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. 

In 2006, Olesya Protsenko defended the candidate dissertation on the topic "Pragmatic Self-Correction in Spontaneous Oral Speech (based on television and radio interviews)".  

Since 2006, Dr. Protsenko has been working at the Educational and Scientific Institute of Journalism at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv: as an assistant, associate professor in the Department of Language and Stylistics / Department of Media Language. From 2009 to 2012, she served as the deputy director of the Institute of Journalism for educational work. She has also worked part-time as an associate professor in the Department of Ukrainian Language at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (2006–2010), and as an associate professor in the Department of Philology and Humanities at the Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Sciences (2006–2018). 

Her area of scientific interest is communicative linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language culture, and teaching methodology. 

In February-March 2022, due to the Russian aggression, Dr. Protsenko experienced active combat actions and occupation in her hometown, Bucha. To escape from Russian terror, she had to leave her home with her family and live as internally displaced persons in another part of Ukraine for two months. In May 2022, they returned to liberated Bucha to rebuild their home and the hometown.  

Dr. Protsenko has three young children. Her husband is currently defending Ukraine from the Russian aggressor. 

Yuriy Syerov is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Communications and Information Activities, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine. He holds a Ph.D. in Social Communication and Information Activities and an M.Sc. in Intelligent Decision Making Systems from the same university. Yuriy has led and participated in numerous national and international research projects. He also serves on editorial boards and reviews for several high-impact journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. His academic work has been honored with multiple awards, including diplomas from Lviv Polytechnic and a regional award for young scientists for impactful research. With over 160 scientific publications, including monographs, textbooks, and patents, he is a prolific researcher in the fields of social communications, information technologies, and digital society. Yuriy Syerov’s research explores how digital communication influences public perception, especially during crises. His work focuses on managing online communities, analyzing psychological and social impacts of information, and using computational methods to detect and understand propaganda and disinformation in virtual environments. 

Tetiana Soproniuk is an independent researcher from Ukraine. From 2020 to 2025, she was a PhD student at the Department of History of Ukraine of the Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University (Ukraine). Her research focuses on the public sentiments of the Ukrainian SSR population of the 1920s and 1930s, Soviet propaganda, and the foreign perception of the Holodomor. From 2018 to 2021, she worked at the Holodomor Museum in Kyiv. In 2023, Tetiana was a visiting postgraduate student at Cambridge University. She is an alumna of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. 

Vsevolod Serhiienko is a third-year post-graduate student of Faculty of History and Law, Hryhory Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University. His research interests include History of Soviet propaganda in the mass media during the Holodomor 1932—1933 and History of the Holodomor 1932—1933 in Kharkiv region. He teaches courses of History of Ukraine, World History and Basics of Law in secondary school and works as a Methodist in the Institute of Educational Development of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in Kyiv.  

Yulia Kovalchuk is an expert in International Criminal and International Human Rights Law. She currently works as a Legal Officer at the European Union Advisory Mission in Ukraine, helping the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine to investigate and prosecute international crimes. Previously Yuliia worked as a lawyer with The Docket, part of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, where she handled legal issues related to Russia's war against Ukraine. Before joining The Docket, Yulia worked with several Ukrainian and international non-governmental organizations, focusing on the legal aspects of the Russian-Ukrainian war, including cases involving violations of international criminal law. Yuliia is a member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. She received her Master of Laws degree from the University of Washington, where she was a Barer Foundation Scholar and Joan Fitzpatrick Fellow. She also holds a Master of Laws degree from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. In addition to her native Ukrainian, Yulia is fluent in English and Polish.