Professional Affiliation

Political historian; Head of the Laboratory of International Memory Studies, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin

Expert Bio

Georgiy Kasianov is a professor at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. He is a past scholar of the Kennan Institute (2003) and the Fulbright Program (1995, 2019). He specializes in the history of Ukraine in the 19^th to 21^st centuries. His most recent book is Memory Crash: Politics of History in and around Ukraine, 1980s–2010s (Budapest, Hungary: CEU Press, 2022).

Wilson Center Project

Academia, Politics and Mass Consciousness: National Historiographies in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus and the Post-Communist Decades (1991-2000s)

Previous Terms

Former Short-term Scholar, Kennan Institute