Dr. Yaroslav Zatyliuk is a Ukrainian historian with experience in academic and public history. He works in Kyiv at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, where he teaches several courses on the History of Ukraine and History of Byzantium. He also works at the Institute of the History of Ukraine in the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, where he is involved in research projects of the Old Rus’ sources from the 11th to 15th centuries. Besides, he has substantial experience in public history, particularly in organizing exhibitions and preparing publications for the popularization projects of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine and the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Reserve. He also provides expert comments and interviews for the major media.Dr. Zatyliuk was a Research Fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the Non-residential Scholars Program of Indiana University (Bloomington, USA).
The thematic scope of his research includes the historical culture of the Late Medieval and the Early Modern Ukraine and the social circulation of historical knowledge. His current research focuses on the historical representations of Prince Volodymyr of Rus’ in the historical cultures of Ukraine and Russia in Early-Modern and Modern times (16th-19th centuries). Currently, he is preparing the monograph ‘The Church Statute by the Prince Volodymyr and the Historical Imaginations about Res Gestae of the Baptizer of Rus’ during the 14th-17th Centuries.’