Nadia Skokova

Historian, Ph.D. dissertation about the formation of the modern identity of Eastern Galicia Jews (Ukrainian Catholic University, 2023). She researches the social and political history of Central and Eastern Europe, the development and implementation of national minority rights, the transformation of traditional society, modern processes, and the development of political consciousness of non-historical nations.

She is a participant in international research, archival, and educational projects and has also experience in journalism and publishing (2020-2023). She took part in summer schools and scholarly internships at the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, Tel Aviv University, the University of Wrocław, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute.

In 2023, she received a fellowship from the Center for Urban History, supported by the Foundation for Jewish Studies in Wrocław, to research the history of the Jewish ghetto in Lviv.

Her new research projects focus on the following topics: Jewish politics and public space in Austrian Lviv; self-government as an instrument of civil society in the dialogue with state authorities; the perception of the Ukrainian question in Jewish public discourses of the interwar period; and reconsidering the institution of violence and prehistory of the Lviv ghetto.