Yurii Latysh is a historian specializing in Memory Studies, Historiography, Ukrainian History, the Decembrist Movement, and Public Intellectuals. He holds a PhD in History from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2007), where he also completed his MA (2004) and BA (2003) in History.

Since 2007, Yurii has worked at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where he founded and directed the undergraduate program “Applied (Public) History.” He has been a visiting researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the European Humanities University (Vilnius, Lithuania) and has lectured as part of the New University in Exile Consortium. Currently, he serves as a Visiting Professor at the State University of Londrina (Brazil).

Yurii is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of The Historical Expertise Journal (Istoricheskaya Expertisa) and a member of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), the Memory Studies Association (MSA), and the Independent Institute of Philosophy (Paris). His teaching portfolio includes courses on the History of Ukraine, Politics of Memory, Public Intellectuals in Europe, and Introduction to University Studies.

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