Georgiy Kasianov

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 19th to 21st 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