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- Research topic:
- Soldiers-liberators vs. Soldiers-volunteers: Commemorative Practices in Transcarpathia in the Soviet and Modern Period
- Period:
- January – February 2025
PhD in History, Associate Professor of the Department of Archeology, Ethnology and Cultural Studies at Uzhhorod National University. He is a member of the working group of the Ukrainian Association of Oral History. He is responsible for ethnographic expeditions of students of history, which result in the publication of the annual Ethnica of the Carpathians. He organized the international scientific conferences "Identities in the Borderlands" in Uzhhorod in 2021 and 2023, and edited the collections of articles by their participants.
Pavlo is working on her doctoral dissertation on the politics of memory in Transcarpathia during the Soviet period (1944-1991). Among the tasks of this work is to study the implementation of the Soviet memory policy in the region in the context of changes in the identity of the multicultural population of the region: Ukrainians-Rusyns, Hungarians, Slovaks, Germans, Romanians, and others. It focuses mainly on official ritual and commemorative practices, as well as the local population's reflection on them. The research uses archival, ethnographic, oral history, and visual materials from family archives.
His research interests include the history and theory of ethnology, oral history, migration processes on the borderlands, the politics of memory, traditional folk crafts and trades.
During his stay at the Center for Urban History on a scholarship program supported by the Institute of Human Sciences, Pavlo plans to study the development of the cult of the Great Patriotic War in Transcarpathia during the reign of Leonid Brezhnev. In particular, the study focuses on the involvement of the population in the construction of monuments, their participation in the formation and maintenance of ritual and ceremonial practices related to Victory Day.