Prof. Igor Serdiuk, Dr. habil., is a professor of the Department of History of Ukraine, Poltava Pedagogical University (Ukraine), and head of the Center for Historical and Anthropological Research.
His research interests are related to the historical demography, the social history of the Hetmanate, childhood history, history of ideas, and quality of life from a historical perspective. He is the author of the monographs Malenkyidoroslyi: Dytyna y dytynstvo v Hetmanshchyni 18 st. Kyiv, 2018. (Little Grown Up: Child and Childhood in the 18th Century Hetmanate), Polkovykh horodov obyvateli: istoryko-demohrafichna kharakterystyka miskoho naselennia Hetmanshchyny druhoi polovyny 18 st. Poltava, 2011 (Inhabitants of Regimental Towns: Historical and Demographic Characteristics of the Urban Population of the Hetmanate in the Second Half of the 18th Century). Editor and author of the chapter of a collective book “Disenchantment of the Disease. Local Tradition, «Old» Diseases and «New» Medicine in Ukraine in the 18 and 19 Centuries”, Kharkiv, 2021. The author of the chapter of the collective book “Eighteenth-Century Ukraine. New Perspectives on Social, Cultural, and Intellectual History”, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023.
The book “Little Grown Up: Child and Childhood in the 18th Century Hetmanate” was awarded the most prestigious prize in Ukrainian humanitarianism—the Ivan Franko International Prize (2020). Also, in 2022, Igor Serdiuk was awarded the President of Ukraine Prize for Young Scientists.
Co-editor of the scientific portal historians.in.ua. Co-founder of the popular initiative “Poltava Historical Society”. Member of the International Association of Humanitarians and the Ukrainian Society of History Researchers of the 18th Century. Guest professor at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (2014, 2024) and an associate researcher at the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (2023).