Olesya Khromeychuk

Olesya Khromeychuk joined King’s College London as a Teaching Fellow in Modern European History in 2018. She was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of East Anglia in 2015-2018. Between 2012 and 2015 she taught Ukrainian, Russian, Soviet and East European history at the University of Cambridge, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London and the University of East Anglia. She received her PhD in History in 2011 from University College London.

• Gender and political violence
• Second World War
• History of Ukraine and East-Central Europe

Olesya Khromeychuk’s current research focuses on the participation of women in military formations during the Second World War and in the ongoing conflict in the Donbas region of Ukraine. She is guest-editor of Gender, Nationalism, and Citizenship in Anti-Authoritarian Protests in Belarus, Russia, And Ukraine, a special issue of the Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society 2(1) (2016). She is the author of ‘Undetermined’ Ukrainians. Post-War Narratives of the Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ Division (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013), which examines the problems of collaboration and post-war displacement through the case of the Ukrainian Waffen SS ‘Galicia’ division.