Béla Kapossy is a professor of Early Modern History at the University of Lausanne who has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European and Swiss political thought. His current book project focuses on the reception early nineteenth-century Restauration political ideas by thinkers interested developing alternatives to the modern nation-state. Since 2022, he has been involved at EPFL and UNIL in setting up support infrastructures for displaced scholars from Ukraine and in facilitating research networks bringing together Ukrainian and Swiss and other European scholars in the humanities.
Role in the Project : Principal Investigator of the Project (Switzerland)
bela.kapossy@unil.ch
Anastasiia Shevchenko is Senior FNS Researcher at the University of Lausanne. In December 2021, she received her Ph.D. in history and archaeology from Zaporizhzhia National University (Ukraine). Her specialization is family history and intellectual history of Ukraine in the 19th and 20th century. Since May 2022, Shevchenko has been a senior FNS researcher at the University of Lausanne. During this time, she published her monograph, “The Hoshkevych Family in the Socio-Cultural Life of Ukraine: New Family History” (2024), as well as a series of articles. She is the author of the project Restore#UACulture which is aimed at researching and highlighting cases of destruction of the cultural heritage of Ukraine as a result of the full-scale military invasion of Russia.
Role in the Project : Researcher, Co-coordinator of the team’s archival research and research output
anastasiia.shevchenko@unil.ch
Oleksii Yas is a Leading Researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and, since 2021 – a Corresponding Member of the NASU. His research interests include Ukrainian historiography and intellectual history of the 19th–20th centuries. In a monographic project on the study of styles of thinking in Ukrainian historiography of the 19th–20th centuries, he studied the visions of M. Drahomanov in particular his perception of positivist and romantic concepts, as well as their interpretation. He focused also on the main ideas of M. Drahomanov’s comparative studies.
Role in the Project : Principal Investigator of the Project (Ukraine)
alexyas@ukr.net
Yaroslava Vermenysh is a Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences, and Head of Department at the Institute of History of Ukraine, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU). Since 2021, she has been a Corresponding Member of the NASU. Her research interests include cultural studies, limnology, historical urban studies, regionalism, and spatial history. She has developed the conceptual foundations of Ukrainian historical regionalism, proposed a methodology for dating the early history of Ukrainian cities, and formulated the theory of historical urban studies. She has studied the territorial structure and models of regional organisation of Ukrainians, as well as the spatial and geopolitical factors in Ukrainian history. She is the author of over 20 monographs and has explored Mykhailo Drahomanov’s political programme and his concept of federal democracy.
Role in the Project : Researcher, Author of conceptual proposals and summarising texts
verrosla@gmail.com
Oksana Yurkova is a Leading Researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine. Her research interests include Ukrainian historiography, especially focusing on the activity of the Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevsky, as well as Ukrainian historical institutions; historical iconography; anthropology of academic life; and electronic information resources. Since 2015, she has been the initiator and co-coordinator of the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Digital Archives project. Her latest project is the preparation for publication of the memoirs of Nadiia Surovtsova (1896–1985), a Ukrainian public figure, diplomat, women’s movement activist, interpreter, publicist, and long-term Gulag prisoner (the book is due to be published in 2025).
Role in the Project : Researcher, Author of the Mykhailo Drahomanov Digital Archive architecture concept and algorithms for filling it with digital content
Svitlana Blashchuk is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Her research interests include 20th-century intellectual history, biographics, digital humanities, digitalisation of information resources, and encyclopedic projects. She has studied the scientific heritage, vital and professional histories of the repressed Ukrainian scientists in the first half of the 20th century and published a number of their unknown and little-known texts. She is a participant in the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Digital Archives and the Ukrainian Central Rada Online Encyclopedia projects.
Role in the Project : Researcher, Co-coordinator of the search work and systematisation of the results of archival, source and bibliographic heuristics
blashchuks@gmail.com
