Postdoctoral Researcher
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellow, Department of Archeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo
Associate Professor
Department of History and Archeology, Mariupol State University
E-mail: svetlana.arabadzhy@gmail.com
ABOUT
Svitlana Arabadzhy is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Archeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo. She works on a research project “Becoming Greek South of Ukraine, 1774-2021: The History of Ukraine through its Greek Minority Between Local and Transnational Contexts (UAGREEKS)”, funded by European Union through the MSCA4Ukraine project. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history (Mariupol State University, Ukraine) and a PhD in History (Donetsk National University, Ukraine). In 2022 she was a Researcher at the University of Oslo. Her research fields comprise Maritime history, the history of the Greek minority in Ukraine, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Politics of Memory in Ukraine, and the International Trade in the Port-cities of the Azov and the Black Seas.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Maritime history, Minorities, Migration, Politics of Memory in Ukraine, Ethnicity
WEB-PAGE
https://www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english/people/aca/history/temporary/svitlana/
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON UKRAINE
Arabadzhy, Svitlana (2023), “Construction of regional myths: a case study of the Greeks of the North Azov Sea region“. Skhid, 5(1)
Arabadzhy, Svitlana. “Greeks in Ukraine: From Ancient to Modern Times”. American Journal of Contemporary Hellenic Issues (AHIF), 6(2015), 1-20.
Pakhomenko, Serhij and Arabadzhy, Svitlana. “Metropolitan Ignatius Figure in Construction of Identity and Historical Memory of Azov Greeks”. Scientific Herald State, Religion, a Church in Russia and Abroad, 32(4), 261-274.
PROJECTS
Becoming Greek South of Ukraine, 1774-2021. The History of Ukraine through its Greek Minority Between Local and Transnational Contexts (UAGREEKS) (2023-2025), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions for Ukraine, European Union.