Svitlana Arabadzhy

Academic interests

I am a historian of minorities, migration, and everyday life. I research the social, economic, and cultural history of the Azov Sea region in Ukraine at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 20th centuries with a special focus on the history of the Greek minority (especially women and children) and their influences in different spheres of life. 

My ongoing research project includes studies of the Greek community role in forging transnational flows of capital, goods, and people through multiple channels and their role in disseminating knowledge, ideas, and exchanges at the transregional levels; a historical analysis of the processes of changing self-identification of the Greek minority and inquiring whether and how historical events of the era of the Russian Empire, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and modern Ukraine affected such identification.

Background

Associate Professor, History and Archeology Department, Mariupol State University 

Ph.D. in History (2012), Donetsk State University

M.A. in History (2007), Mariupol State University

B.A. in History (2006), Mariupol State University

Awards

MSCA4Ukraine Grant, European Commission (2023)

Projects

Becoming Greek south of Ukraine, 1774-2021: The history of Ukraine through its Greek minority between local and transnational contexts (UAGREEKS)

Duration: 01.05.2023–30.04.2025

The project aims to shed new light on the transnational connections and the history of southern Ukraine through the past and present of its Greek minority. UAGREEKS contributes to understanding the complex role of ethnic minorities in shaping both the local and transnational contexts from the 18th century.