Current position
Valentyna Shevchenko is a Historian and Archivist at the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv. She is also Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Department of History of Ukraine XIX – early XX century), Kyiv.
Research
For ten years, she has been researching historical sources in the context of preserving the memory of the First World War in Ukraine with a focus on ego-documents (diaries, memoirs, letters, visual chronicle). Shevchenko is also currently engaged in projects at the Center for Urban History to document the experiences of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine as a researcher and databases administrator. She is a member of the Ukrainian team of the U-CORE project. She was serves on the editorial boards in several fundamental collective publications in the history of Ukraine.
Awards/Distinctions
She has received a Documenting Ukraine Grant in 2022 (IWM).
Work experience
Shevchenko worked as a lecturer at Volodymyr Vynnychenko Kirovohrad State Pedagogical University (1997–2005), and the National Academy of Culture and Arts Managers (2010). From 2008 to the present, she work for Institute of History of Ukraine. In 2022 she joined the Center for Urban History.
Educational background
Dr. Valentyna Shevchenko obtained her degree of Candidate of History, equivalent of PhD, at the Institute of History of Ukraine.
