Yevhenii Monastyrskyi entered the Ph.D. program in the Fall of 2023. He specializes in the history of the Soviet Union and is particularly interested in the intergenerational history of the Comintern and Soviet internationalist networks. He graduated Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University with a B.A. in history and pedagogy, Ukrainian Catholic University with an M.A. in Modern History of Ukraine and Yale University with an M.A. in European and Russian Studies. He is a recipient of Kowalsky Prize in Ukrainian Studies (2015), Global Dialogues Fellowship at The New School for Social Research (2018) and Merit Fellowship and European Studies Council Fellowship from the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University (2021-2023). Since 2015, he has embarked on numerous qualitative studies concerning the experiences and lives of Internally Displaced Persons in Ukraine, conducting over twenty research projects in collaboration with international and domestic organizations. Since 2020 he is lead researcher at the War Childhood Museum (Ukraine).

His academic interests include the history of Soviet internationalist institutions and their influence on European and North American left-wing movements, as well as the history of Eastern Ukraine.