Olha Korniienko | zzf-potsdam.de

Vita

Academic positions

Since June 2025
Postdoctoral MSCA4Ukraine Fellow / Research Associate, ZZF Potsdam (Department I)

Jan – Apr 2025
Visiting Research Fellow, CEES, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto (award: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies), Toronto, Canada

Sep – Dec 2024
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria

May 2024 – May 2025
Associated Researcher, ZZF Potsdam (Department I)

Jun – Aug 2024
Visiting Research Fellow, Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin, Germany

Jul 2024
Participant, EUROPAST Summer School in Digital Humanities, Luxembourg

Feb 2023 – Apr 2024
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ZZF Potsdam (Department I)

Oct 2022 – Jan 2023
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), Cambridge, USA

Apr – Sep 2022
Postdoctoral Scholar, ZZF Potsdam (Department I)

Nov – Dec 2018
Research Fellow, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine

Sep – Oct 2015
Participant, Trier Digital Humanities Autumn School, Germany & Luxembourg

Oct 2013 – Jun 2014
Research Fellow, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of History, Department of Historical Informatics, Moscow, Russia

Awards & Funding

Jun 2025 – Nov 2026
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions: MSCA4Ukraine Postdoctoral Fellowship, ZZF Potsdam, Germany

Jan 2025 – Apr 2025
Kolasky Award in the Humanities & Social Sciences, Law, Education & Library Sciences, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), Canada

Feb 2024 – Apr 2024
Funded position/research stay within the ERC Advanced Grant project “Perestroika from Below” (host project), ZZF Potsdam, Germany

Oct 2023
German–Ukrainian Historical Commission: Funding for Archival Services in Ukraine, Germany

Jun 2022
Documenting Ukraine Award, Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria

Apr 2022 – Sep 2022 and Feb 2023 – Jul 2023
Volkswagen Foundation: Postdoctoral Fellowship Funding, Germany

Dec 2022
Editors’ Special Mention Award, The Hungarian Historical Review (for “Ukrainian Fashion Houses as Centers of Soviet Fashion Representation”)

Professional Organizations & Associations

Since 2025
Ukraine Decolonial Studies Network (UDSN), Executive Board Member
Since 2024
British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES)
Since 2023
Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies (CAUS) / Canadian Association of Slavists (CAS)
Since 2023
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
Since 2021
Digital Archive of Ukrainian Fashion History, Founder & Head

Education

Sep 2010 – Jun 2015
M.A. in History (with distinction), V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Sep 2015 – Nov 2020
Ph.D. in History, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University / Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Thesis title “A Fashion Phenomenon: State Policy and Everyday Life in the Ukrainian SSR, 1956–1985” (in Ukrainian)

Publikationen

Vorträge

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, PRESENTATIONS & PUBLIC TALKS

2026

Cold War Cultural Diplomacy: Ukrainian Fashion on the Global Stage — guest lecture/seminar, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen–Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany

2025

Designing Perebudova: Ukrainian Fashion Designers Between Soviet Control and Cultural Self-Assertion — University of Oxford, Pembroke College, Oxford, UK

Fashion as Resistance: Ukrainian Identity from Late Socialism to Wartime — ASEEES Annual Convention, Washington, USA

From Soviet Shadow to Western Spotlight: Ukrainian Fashion on the International Stage, 1945–1991 — XI ICCEES World Congress, University College London, UK

Behind the Iron Curtain: Making Fashion in Soviet Ukraine, 1945–1991 — St. Volodymyr Institute, Toronto, Canada

Cold War Cultural Diplomacy: Ukrainian Fashion on the Global Stage — Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES), Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada

2024

Fashioning Freedom: Ukrainian Soviet Designers as Agents of National Emancipation — ASEEES Annual Convention, Boston, USA (paper/author)

Changing Femininity: The Social Construction of Women in Eastern European Literary and Periodical Texts — ASEEES Annual Convention, Boston, USA (discussant)

Fashion Across Borders: Soviet Ukraine’s Soft Power and Diplomacy — BASEES Annual Conference, University of Cambridge, UK

Fashioning Freedom: Making Ukrainian Fashion in the Era of Change (1985–1991) — Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin, Germany

Fashion Through a Satirical Lens: Perception and Influence in Soviet Ukraine — EUROPAST Summer School, Luxembourg

2023

“Kyiv Fashion is More American than Cossack”: (Re)discovering Ukrainian Heritage through Fashion in Late Socialism — ASEEES Annual Convention, Philadelphia, USA (paper/author)

Social Media, Memes, and Other Born-Digital Sources on the War in Ukraine: From Collecting and Archiving to Academic Research and Teaching — ASEEES Annual Convention, Philadelphia, USA (discussant)

From Fabrics to Fashions: Production and Labor in Soviet Ukraine’s Fashion Industry — Loom and Labor workshop, Slavs and Tatars Pickle Bar, Berlin, Germany

Ukrainian Folklore and Historical Heritage: Efforts to Build a National Brand Through Fashion in the 1940s–1980s — Conference “Ukraine: History, Culture, and Politics” (organized by Havighurst Center, Miami University), Cuma, Italy

Ukrainian Identity Through the Lens of Fashion (Based on the Montreal Expo-1967) — Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada

2022

Soviet Ukrainian Fashion During the Cold War — Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

2021

Under the Western Brand: Official Portrayals of Soviet Fashionistas in the Satirical Magazine Perets’ — Conference “Consuming and Advertising – Eastern Europe Revisited”, Marburg, Germany

Ukrainian “Haute Couture” of the 1940s–1980s: From Sketch to Masterpiece — International Fashion Exhibition “Kyiv Fashion”, Kyiv, Ukraine (in Ukrainian)

2019

Industrial Espionage or Cultural Cooperation? Fashion Tourism under the Iron Curtain: Organization, Process and Sample Adaptation — ASEEES Summer Convention, Zagreb, Croatia

2018

Constructing the Image of a Modern Woman in the Soviet Women’s Magazine (1956–1991) — Conference “Exploring the Past: New Social History at the Crossroads of Methodological Trends”, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine

2017

Satire as a Tool for the Formation of Views on Fashion in Soviet Society — Kharkiv Historical and Philological Society, Kharkiv, Ukraine (in Ukrainian)

Flipping through Pages of the Perets’ Magazine: Soviet and Western Fashion in Quantitative Terms — Conference “Soviet Heritage Through the Prism of Modernization”, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine (in Russian)

Aktuelle Projekte

Dr. Olha Korniienko

Threads of Identity: Ukrainian Soviet Fashion from World War II to Independence