Prof. Andrii Portnov is a Ukrainian historian, essayist, and editor. He is the director of the PRISMA UKRAЇNA Research Network Eastern Europe. He specializes in Polish-Russian-Ukrainian history and memory studies. He was a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for Slavic Studies of the Humboldt University in Berlin and Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam. In 2016–2017 he was a research fellow at the University of Geneva. In 2017 and 2019 he was a short-term Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. Portnov taught courses on Ukrainian and East European history and cultures at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Free University Berlin, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University of Basel, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon, etc. The thematic scope of his research includes the Polish-Russian-Ukrainian triangle of history and memory, genocide and memory studies, Ukrainian and Soviet historiography, Ukrainian emigration in inter-war Europe, the Partitions of Poland and the Ukrainian politics of the Russian Empire, and the history of Dnipro (former Dnipropetrovsk).
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Period of affiliation:
2025 - 2026
Organisation:
PRISMA Ukraina