Research interests: women’s emancipation in the Zaporizhzhia region, women’s and children’s urban everyday life in Southern Ukraine in the 20th century, women’s history of the contemporary Russo-Ukrainian war, women’s oral history.
Candidate of Historical Sciences (PhD equivalent), Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient and Modern History of Ukraine and History Teaching Methods, Zaporizhzhia National University.
Graduated from the Faculty of History, Zaporizhzhia State University (1997). In 2004, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences and joined the faculty of the Department of History at Zaporizhzhia National University. In the 2010s, she turned her research focus to women’s and gender history of 20th-century Southern Ukraine.
Head of the student research group “Gender Studies in History” at the Faculty of History and International Relations, Zaporizhzhia National University. Since 2022, she has been teaching an elective master’s-level course at ZNU, “Gender Equality in Public Governance: Historical Experience and the Present.”
Participant in the project “Women’s Stories of Leadership” (LINK; coordinators: UWC and UARWH, 2021–2025). Fellow at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (2023–2024), where she conducted research on the project “Women’s War History: The Experience of Ukrainian Women Refugees Abroad.” Participant in the “Accelerator for Scholarly Societies, Science at Risk” project (2026).