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Oleksii Chebotarov

Oleksii Chebotarov

Oleksii Chebotarov

Dr.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Main Focuses

Environmental History

Digital Humanities

Migration Studies

Eastern European Studies

Ukrainian Studies

Jewish Studies

Borderland Studies

Historical GIS

Digital History

Social History

Fields of research

Migration studies

Eastern European History

Imperial History

Jewish studies

Borderlands Studies

Education

2015-2021, Ph.D. Program in Cultural Theory and Organization Studies, University of St. Gallen

2017-2021, Associate Doctoral Fellow in Migration Studies Université de Fribourg, Switzerland

2016-2019, Associate Doctoral Fellow in Eastern European History, University of Vienna, Austria

2014, MA,

2015, MA in History, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine

2013, BA in History, Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine

Professional Career

University of St. Gallen
2016–present, Research Project Coordinator at the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe
2020–2021, Lecturer in Cultural Studies
2016–2020, Managing editor of the online open-access Journal ‘Euxeinos’
2015–2021, Research Fellow of the Department of Easter European Studies

Central European University, Austria
2025–present, Lecturer in Migration History

University of Oslo, Norway
2024–present, Research Fellow of the "KLIMER: Climate, environment and energy" research group
2024, Visiting Researcher at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History

University of Vienna, Austria
2022–2024, SNSF Senior Research Fellow

Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
2022–2023, Lecturer of the Department of History

New Europe College – Institute for Advance Studies, Romania
2021–2022 - 

Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, Ukraine
2021–present, Coordinator of Digital History Projects
2015–2021, Research Assistant of Urban Media Archive
2014–2015, Coordinator of the Urban Media Archive
2012–2014, Research Assistant

Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe, Ukraine
2011–present, Co-Founder and Board Member 

Affiliations
  • Schweizerischen Akademischen Gesellschaft für Osteuropawissenschaften
  • World Union of Jewish Studies
  • European Association for Jewish Studies
  • Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies
  • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 
  • Swiss Network of Young Migration Scholars
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