CURRICULUM VITAE OLEKSII CHEBOTAROV

Correspondence address: SHSS-HSG, Müller-Friedberg-Str. 8 / 52-7138, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Tel.: +41 71 224 2561 Mob.: +41 78 82 54 336, +38 067 98 31 666 Fax: +41 71 224 2669

EDUCATION 2015 – 2020 Ph.D. Program in Cultural Theory and Organization Studies at the University of St. Gallen Thesis title: " Immigration and transmigration of the Jews from in Habsburg , 1870 – 1914" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid; Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern 2016 – 2019 Associate fellow, Doctoral Program “Austrian Galicia and its multicultural heritage”, Institute for East-European History, Vienna University Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Susanne Jobst 2013 – 2015 MA Program in History at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Ukraine) Thesis title: "Jewish question in Lviv public space (late 1870s – early 1880s)" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Yaroslav Hrytsak 2009 – 2013 BA Program in History at the V. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) Thesis title: "Jewish question in Ukrainian National Movement of the Russian Empire (late 1850s – early 1880s)" Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Serhiy Naumov

LANGUAGES Ukrainian, Russian – native; English – advanced; Polish – intermediate; German, Yiddish – pre- intermediate, Hebrew – elementary.

EMPLOYMENT November Managing editor, The online open access Journal ‘Euxeinos. Governance and Culture in 2016 – the Black Sea Region’ (published by the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at Present University of St.Gallen) http://www.gce.unisg.ch/en/euxeinos September Research Assistant, the Department of Russian Culture and Society of the School of 2015 – Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of St. Gallen Present https://www.unisg.ch/de/universitaet/schools/humanities+and+social+sciences May 2013 – Researcher, Assistant of the “Urban Media Archive” at the Center for Urban History of Present East Central Europe, Lviv www.lvivcenter.org/en October Co-Founder and Projects Coordinator at the Center for Interethnic Relations Research in 2011 – Eastern Europe, Kharkiv Present https://ethnickh.wordpress.com/

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SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLIC LECTURES December International Conference 'Contesting Jewish Loyalties: The First World War and Beyond' 16-17, 2016 (Jewish Museum Berlin): Who were the Tsarist Jews? Questions on Loyalties of Russian Jews in Habsburg Galicia February 11– International Conference "Kissing the Mezuzah": Jews Between Public and Private Space, 12, 2016 Jewish Studies Graduate Conference (Indiana University): Transmigration Areas as Communication Spaces: The Case of Russian Jews in Late Imperial Galicia October 23, Research seminar of Jewish studies program of Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv: 2014 ‘Histoire Croisée’ of Lviv public space. Reflections of the Anti-Jewish pogroms of early 1880s case October 10, Research seminar of Institute of History (Polish Academy of Sciences): Jewish question 2014 in Public Space of Lviv (late 1870s – early 1880s) Jun 24–26, Polish-Israel Students Graduated Workshop on the History and Culture of Polish Jews 2014 (University of Wroclaw): Jewish question in socio-political thought in Eastern Galicia (late 1870s – early 1880s) May 27–28, 2nd International Conference – Holocaust Museums and Memorial Places in Post- 2013 Communist Countries: Challenges and Opportunities (Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum): Holocaust studies in historical higher education in Ukraine February 3– 20th Annual International Conference of Jewish Studies in Moscow (Center for 5, 2013 University Teaching of Jewish Civilization "Sefer"): Wiliam Berenshtam’s Ukrainian Choice May 24–25, 12th International Conference “Cyril and Methodius Readings” (V. Karazin Kharkiv 2012 National University): Jews in Ukrainophile discourses in -Hungary and Russian Empires in the second half of the nineteenth century: on the question of integrity of the Ukrainian national movement June 2, 2011 Workshop "Jews in the ethnic mosaic of Ukrainian lands in the XIX-XXI centuries in Kharkiv (Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe): On the question of

the activists of “Stara Gromada” relationships Jewish intellectual's

STIPENDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND ACHIEVEMENT Jun – Internship in “Artes Liberales” Department of University of Warsaw September 2014 August 2013 Study-Trip to the House of the Wannsee Conference “Teaching the Holocaust History – Perspectives and Approaches” (Berlin, ) March 2012 – Analytical and historical texts’ author Present “Historians” web portal (www.historians.in.ua), “Virtual Shtetl” web portal (www.sztetl.org.pl), Analytical and historical texts’ author October 2011 Study tour to Foundation for Educational Activities «KReAdukcja» (Lublin, Poland) June – July Second annual summer school on Jewish History and Culture of East-Central Europe 2011 (Lviv, Ukraine) January 2011 Winter School of Jewish Studies (Moscow, Russia) October 2010 Recipient of the scholarship for young researchers in Ukrainian Studies from Oleg – May 2011 Olzhych Research Foundation (USA)

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PARTICIPANT OF RESEARCH PROJECTS: Transcultural Contact Zones in Ukraine (Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at University of St.Gallen) The Memory of Vanished Population Groups in Today’s East–Central European Urban Environment. Memory Treatment and Urban Planning in Lviv, Chernivtsi, Kishinev and Wroclaw (Centre for European Studies, Lund) https://memoryofvanishedurbanpopulations.wordpress.com “Region, Nation and Beyond. An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconceptualization of Ukraine” (University of St. Gallen and Center for Urban History of East Central Europe) http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/researchprojects/stgallenproject/ "Voices of Resistance and Hope: Kyiv-Lviv-Kharkiv" (Center for Urban History of East Central Europe) http://www.lvivcenter.org/en/researchprojects/ProtestVoices

ORGANIZATION OF CONFERENCES AND SUMMER SCHOOLS: Conference “Mass violence and genocides in the Ukrainian lands in the 1930-s-1940-s”. Kharkiv, December 1-2, 2016 Conference “Jews in the Ethnic Mosaic of Eastern Europe”. Kharkiv, September 24–25, 2015 Conference “Jews in the Ethnic Mosaic of Ukrainian Lands”. Kharkiv, May 21–22, 2014 Conference “Ethno-political Problems of the World War II in Ukraine: Collaboration and Resistance”. Kharkiv, May 14, 2013 Conference “30th Local History Conference of Young Researches”. Kharkiv, December 14, 2012 Conference of young scholars “65th Karazin Readings”, Kharkiv, April 20, 2012 Conference “29th Local History Conference of Young Researches”. Kharkiv, December 16, 2011 Workshop “Ethno-political problems of WWII”. Kharkiv, October 31, 2011 Conference “Jews in the Ethnic Mosaic of Ukrainian Lands of the Nineteenth through the Twenty-First Centuries”. Kharkiv, June 2, 2011 Conference “11th Cyril and Methodius Readings”, Kharkiv, May 20, 2011 Conference of young scholars “64th Karazin Readings”, Kharkiv, April 22, 2011

PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS

Schweizerischen Akademischen Gesellschaft für Osteuropawissenschaften World Union of Jewish Studies European Association for Jewish Studies Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Swiss Network of Young Migration Scholars

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