Iryna Petrenko

Doctor of Sciences

Department of World History, Religious Studies, and Teaching Methods, Korolenko National Pedagogical University of Poltava

Graduated from the Faculty of History, Korolenko National Pedagogical University of Poltava (2000). In 2011, she defended her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences. In the 2010s, she began researching the women’s and gender history of Ukraine from the 17th through the 20th centuries.

Participant in the summer school training course “Gender University,” dedicated to improving the quality of teaching gender theory in Ukrainian higher education (2015). She has participated in regional, national, and international conferences on gender issues in history. Author of several single-authored monographs on prominent women in Ukrainian history (2013, 2014, 2017, 2021). Participant in the project “Women’s Stories of Leadership” (2025). Since 2025, she has been teaching an elective course, “Gender History of Europe and the Americas,” to undergraduate students at Korolenko National Pedagogical University of Poltava. She supervises bachelor’s and master’s theses on gender studies in history and serves as a designated reviewer (opponent) at dissertation defenses on topics in gender history.

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