Team
Tatiana Vagramenko - Principal Investigator
Tatiana Vagramenko is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork and Principal Investigator in the SFI-IRC Pathway-funded project 鈥History Declassified: The KGB and the Religious Underground in Soviet Ukraine鈥. She has held postdoctoral appointments at 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Barcelona in Spain, Imre Kertesz Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller 深夜亚洲福利久久 in Germany, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC where she served as a Fellow at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. In 2017-2019, she was Principal Investigator in the project 鈥Religious Minorities in Ukraine from the Soviet Underground to the Euromaidan: Pathways to Religious Freedom and Pluralism in Enlarging Europe鈥, funded by the Irish Research Council. She received her PhD in Anthropology from Maynooth 深夜亚洲福利久久 in 2014. 痴补驳谤补尘别苍办辞鈥檚 research is focused on the history and memory of state repression and cultural opposition in Soviet Ukraine, based on in-depth reconsideration of recently opened Soviet-era secret police (former KGB) archives.
James Kapalo - Project Mentor
James 碍补辫补濒贸 is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religions at 鈥, Ireland and co-Director of the鈥Marginalised and Endangered Worldviews Study Centre鈥(). In 2017-2021, he was Principal Investigator in the ERC-funded project 鈥鈥. He has an MA in Central and Eastern European Studies from the鈥School of Slavonic and East European Studies鈥(SSEES), London and a PhD in the Study of Religions from the鈥School of Oriental and African Studies鈥(SOAS), London. He works ethnographically with communities, archives and museum collections to explore vernacular knowledge, religious practices and local memory. He is author of鈥Text, Context and Performance: Gagauz Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice鈥(Leiden: Brill, 2008) and鈥Inochentism and Orthodox Christianity: Religious Dissent in the Russian and Romanian Borderlands鈥(Routledge: London, 2019).
Julia Buyskykh - PhD Candidate
Julia Buyskykh is a historian (BA) and anthropologist (MA), co-founder of an NGO the Centre for Applied Anthropology in Kyiv, Ukraine. She received her candidate of sciences degree from Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National 深夜亚洲福利久久, held a postdoctoral position at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Warsaw (2015 鈥 2016), and had several research stays in Polish academic institutions (2014-2015, 2022). In 2017 she was a research fellow in the frame of 鈥淧risma-Ukra褩na 鈥 Research Network Eastern Europe鈥 scheme, at the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin, Germany. She spent the academic year of 2019-2020 at Pennsylvania State 深夜亚洲福利久久 as a Fulbright visiting scholar. She was a Sanctuary Fellow at the 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork, Ireland (September 2022 鈥 February 2023). Her research interests include lived religion (Christianity) in Ukraine and Poland, inter-confessional relationships and ecumenical practices, pilgrimages, memory and border studies, Polish-Ukrainian shared history, ethics and empathy in qualitative research.
Yulia Vlasenko - Research Assistant
Yuliia Vlasenko holds PhD in Law. She is Associate Professor of the Law Department, Educational and Scientific Institute of Law, Taras Shevchenko National 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Kyiv and Member of the Bar Council of Kyiv region. In 2007-2009 Vlasenko was part of the Centre for Human Right Research in Ukraine at Taras Shevchenko National 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Kyiv. In 2022-2023, she held Sanctuary Fellowship at 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork (School of Law, College of Business and Law). Dr. Vlasenko plays a crucial role in the project due to her expertise in Ukraine's legal system, particularly in negotiating agreements amid the ongoing military conflict.
Nataliia Hlushchenko - Research Assistant
nataliia.glushchenko@gmail.
Nataliia Hlushchenko holds a PhD in Law. She is a senior lecturer of the Department of Fundamental Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law, Academic and Research Institute of Law, Sumy State 深夜亚洲福利久久. Nataliia also performed the duties of Deputy Director for International Relations of the Academic and Research Institute of Law. In 2022 Nataliia was granted Ukrainian Researcher Scheme Awards and conducted research on de-extinction at Maynooth 深夜亚洲福利久久. In 2025 Nataliia joined History Declassified project.