Profile
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Oksana MYSHLOVSKA

International History and Politics
Spoken languages
Ukrainian, English, French, Italian, Russian
Areas of expertise
  • Politics of history and memory in Ukraine and Eastern Europe
  • Transitional justice in post-Soviet space
  • Decentralization
  • Theory and practice of state reconciliation
Geographical Region of Expertise
  • Former Soviet Union

PROFILE

 

PhD, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

PhD, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Bern, Oksana Myshlovska contributes to an FNS project that focuses on the role of civil society in conflict transformation and reconciliation in relation to history and memory in Ukraine, Chechnya, and Georgia. Previously, she was an invited lecturer at the Graduate Institute and a researcher at the University of St Gallen and the Global Studies Institute in Geneva. Earlier, she also worked at the World Economic Forum and the Geneva Center for Security Sector Governance. Her research is at the intersection of memory studies, history, transitional justice and conflict transformation.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Schmid, Ulrich, and Oksana Myshlovska, eds. Regionalism without Regions:Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity (Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, 2019)

  • “Regionalism in Ukraine: Historic Evolution, Regional Claim-Making, and Centre–Periphery Conflict Resolution”, In: Shelest, Hanna, Rabinovych, Maryna (eds) Decentralization, Regional Diversity, and Conflict. Federalism and Internal Conflicts. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 17-47, 2020. 

  • Liebich, André, Oksana Myshlovska, Viktoriia Sereda, Oleksandra Gaidai, and Iryna Sklokina "The Ukrainian Past and Present: Legacies, Memory and Attitudes." In Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity, edited by Myshlovska Oksana and Schmid Ulrich, 67-134. Budapest; New York: Central European University Press, 2019.

  • “Delegitimizing the Communist Past and Building a New Sense of Community: the Politics of Transitional Justice and Memory in Ukraine”, International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity, 7, 372–405, 2019.

  • “Establishing the ‘irrefutable facts’ about the OUN and UPA: the role of the working group of historians on the OUN-UPA activity in mediating memory-based conflict in Ukraine” Ab imperio 1, 223-254, 2018.

 

 
ACTIVITIES 

 

  • Member of the Trilateral Working Group. A dialogue project of scientific collaboration between young scholars from Ukraine and Russia financed by the Swiss FDFA (2021-2022)

  • Investigator, Learning Journey “Governance in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts. The Case of Ukraine”, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, and the Swiss Development Agency (2017- 2018)

  • Member of Regionalism in Ukraine network, University of St Gallen (2015-)

  • Member of the FNS multidisciplinary project “Region, Nation and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconsideration of Ukraine” (2012-2015)

  • Member, La Société académique suisse d’étude de l’Europe orientale

Oksana MYSHLOVSKA