Yevhenii Monastyrskyi

Yevhenii Monastyrskyi is a Ph.D. Student at the Department of History at Harvard University. He specializes in the history of the Soviet Union and is particularly interested in history of Soviet migration regimes, intergenerational history of the Soviet internationalist networks and intellectual history of the political migrants. 

He graduated from 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 taken part in 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. 

He is a lecturer at the Kyiv School of Economics and a lead researcher at the War Childhood Museum (Ukraine).

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