Dr. Julia Buyskykh

Biographical Summary

Julia Buyskykh is a historian and anthropologist, co-founder of an NGO the Centre for Applied Anthropology in Kyiv, Ukraine. She received her Ph.D. (candidate of sciences) in History and Ethnology from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, had a post-doc Visegrad fellowship at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw (2015 – 2016), and several research stays in Polish academic institutions (2014-2015, 2022). In 2017 she was a research fellow in the frames of “Prisma-Ukraїna – Research Network Eastern Europe” scheme, at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, Germany. She spent the academic year of 2019-2020 at Pennsylvania State University as a Fulbright visiting scholar. She was a Sanctuary Fellow at the University College Cork, Ireland (September 2022 – February 2023).

 

Research Interests

Her research interests include lived religion (Orthodoxy and Catholicism) in Ukraine and Poland, inter-confessional relationships and ecumenical practices, pilgrimages, memories and borderlands studies, ethics and empathy in qualitative research. Currently, she is writing her second Ph.D. thesis in Anthropology and Study of Religions at the University College Cork, Ireland. From April 2024 she has been a guest researcher at the German Historical Institute and Institute of History, PAS, Warsaw within the frames of the “Research Perspective Ukraine” Program.

As part of her scholarship at the GHI, she is researching Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Poland. Therefore, she adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine the impact of the Second World War on the interplay of memories, identities and religion in Central-Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century to the present day. Project title: “Ukrainian Greek Catholics in Poland: Landscape of Memories and Transnational Histories”.