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Olena Palko is a historian specializing in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Ukraine. Her research focuses on the history of minorities, nationalism studies, and issues related to nationality, identities, frontiers, and borders. She authored the book 'Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin,' which analyzes the cultural Sovietization of Ukraine during the interwar period and examines the implications of Soviet nationality policy. Palko's current research, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, investigates Soviet minority policies in interwar Ukraine, aiming to understand the processes of national identity construction among ethnic minorities. She has held various academic positions, including Assistant Professor at the University of Basel, and has been involved in several research projects related to minority histories in Eastern Europe, enhancing scholarly understanding of the complexities surrounding ethnicity and nationalism in the region.
University of Basel • Basel
Assistant Professor at the Chair of Eastern European History.
Birkbeck, University of London • London
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology.
The University of Basel generally requires C1 level proficiency in the language of instruction. For most English-taught Masters, TOEFL (min 92-95) or IELTS (min 7.0) is the standard.