Nataliia Zalietok

Doctor of Sciences

Department of Archival Studies at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Archival Affairs and Records Management

Doctor of Historical Sciences (habilitation equivalent), Senior Researcher, Head of the Department of Archival Studies at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Archival Affairs and Records Management.

She has been conducting research in women’s and gender history since 2011. Research interests: women’s and gender history, the suffrage movement in the context of social and political transformations in Great Britain from the late 19th to the mid-20th century, women’s military service during World War II in Great Britain and the USSR, women in military service during the contemporary Russo-Ukrainian war, state policy on women’s military service, media studies, social anthropology, archival studies.

Graduated from National Pedagogical Drahomanov University of Kyiv with a degree in History and Law (2012). In 2016, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences (PhD equivalent) on the topic “Women in the Public and Political Life of Great Britain (Last Third of the 19th Century – 1939).” In 2017, she earned a second degree from the National Aviation University with a specialization in Translation (English). In 2022, she was awarded the academic title of Senior Researcher in the specialty 032 History and Archaeology and defended her doctoral dissertation based on the monograph “Women in Military Service in Great Britain and the USSR During World War II (Kyiv, 2022; specialty 07.00.02 — World History). Author of over 80 scholarly publications in women’s and gender history and archival studies, including two single-authored monographs.

She has participated in international conferences and summer schools in Norway, Sweden, Latvia, Georgia, the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. From 2022 to 2026, she completed in-person and remote fellowships at universities and research institutions in the United States and Germany, including Northwestern University (Buffett Institute), Indiana University Bloomington, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S., Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Freie Universität Berlin, European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), and the University of Regensburg.

Laureate of the Kyiv Mayor’s Prize in the category “Scholarly Achievements” (2021); winner of the annual “Young Scholar of the Year” competition, Council of Young Scholars, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (2022); winner of the annual “Best Young Scholar of the Academy” competition, Council of Young Scholars, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in the category “History, Philosophy, and Law” (2023); winner of the Competition for Scholarly-Methodological and Scholarly-Informational Works in Archival Studies, Records Management, and Archaeography (2019, 2020, 2023, 2024).

Member of the editorial board of the scholarly periodical Storinky voiennoi istorii Ukrainy [Pages of Military History of Ukraine] (Institute of History of Ukraine, NAS of Ukraine) and the scholarly journal Arkhivy Ukrainy [Archives of Ukraine] (Category B, State Archival Service of Ukraine).

Peer reviewer for the scholarly journals Archeion (Poland) and Ampersand (Scopus Q1, United Kingdom).

Since 2026, member of the Association for Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) and the Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH).

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