Iryna Sklokina

Dr. Iryna Sklokina is a historian and researcher who wrote a Dissertation about the official Soviet policy of memory of the Nazi occupation of Ukraine using the example of Kharkiv. Graduated from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (central in the history of Ukraine). Holds a master’s degree in History (2008). Worked at Kharkiv National University and the Kovalsky Eastern Institute of Ukrainian Studies (Kharkiv). A member of the Kharkiv Historical and Philological Society. Participant in several international projects about historical memory and oral history, including Region, Nation and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconceptualization of Ukraine (research sub-topic Political Death Cult of the Fallen Soldiers in Ukraine in the Past 20 years) and OpenHeritage (Organizing, Promoting and Enabling Heritage Re-Use Through Inclusion, Technology, Access, Governance, and Empowerment).  At the Center for Urban History, Iryna Sklokina researches historical heritage, mainly industrial and Soviet heritage, in Kharkiv and Lviv.