Olena Betlii

Historian, Candidate of History (2004), Associate Professor at the Department of History of the National University “Kyiv Mohyla Academy”, affiliated researcher at the Center for Urban History. The Candidate thesis was on the analysis of policy of countries in Central Europe as to Ukrainian Issue in 1919/23 (as illustrated by Poland and Czechoslovakia).

Her research focus includes social history of Kyiv during the First World War and the Revolution; discourse practices in the European environment; policy of identities in the context of EU integration processes. She lectures courses on urban studies, on mental maps of European space, and the history of CEE countries of 1989-2007.