Maryna Hennadiivna Paliienko ( uk, Марина Геннадіївна Палієнко; born 27 January 1968 in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

) is a contemporary

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historian in the field of archival studies. Since 2017, she is the chair of the Department of Archival Studies and Special Fields of Historical Science at the Historical Faculty of the

Kyiv University Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

. Since 2020, she is the chief editor of „Ukrainian Archives“, a leading Ukrainian journal on archival studies.

Biography

Maryna Paliienko was born in Kyiv in 1968. She studied at the Historical Faculty of the

(1985-1990). In the early 1990s, she briefly worked at the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine, before proceeding with graduate studies. She obtained a PhD (

Candidate of Sciences Candidate of Sciences (russian: кандидат наук, translit=kandidat nauk) is the first of two doctoral level scientific degrees in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It is formally classified as UNESCO's ISCED level 8, "do ...

) degree in history in 1994, with the doctoral thesis focused on the role of ''

Kievskaya starina ''Kievskaya starina'' (russian: Киевская старина, literally "Kievan Past") was a monthly historically ethographic and literary chronicle. It was published in Kyiv during 1882–1907 in Russian, and then in Ukrainian in 1906. In t ...

'' сhronicle in the scientific and civic life of the Ukrainian society. In 2009, she obtained a

Doctor of Sciences Doctor of Sciences ( rus, доктор наук, p=ˈdoktər nɐˈuk, abbreviated д-р наук or д. н.; uk, доктор наук; bg, доктор на науките; be, доктар навук) is a higher doctoral degree in the Russi ...

degree, presenting her second dissertation centered on the archival centers of Ukrainian immigrants in Europe in the 1920s to the 1940s. Since 1994, Paliienko has been working at the Historical Faculty of the

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

. She first worked as an Assistant Professor, before becoming an Associate Professor in 2011, and a Professor in 2012. Since 2017, she leads the Department of Archival Studies and Special Fields of Historical Science.

Scientific career

In her scientific work, Maryna Paliienko focuses on comparative archival studies; the history of archives and archival collections in Ukraine and across the world; historical

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; archaeography;

historiography Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians ha ...

; media history; Ukrainian social and political history of the 19th and 20th centuries; Ukrainian immigrants and diaspora in Europe and North America. Paliienko researched Ukrainian studies in multiple countries, including the

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, and

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. She was a visiting scholar at the

Ukrainian Free University The Ukrainian Free University ( ua, Український Вільний Університет, german: Ukrainische Freie Universität, la, Universitas Libera Ukrainensis) is a private graduate university located in Munich, Germany. History ...

in Munich (1995 and 1996), as well as in the

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń or NCU ( pl, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, UMK) is located in Toruń, Poland. It is named after Nicolaus Copernicus, who was born in Toruń in 1473.Toruń )'' , image_skyline = , image_caption = , image_flag = POL Toruń flag.svg , image_shield = POL Toruń COA.svg , nickname = City of Angels, Gingerbread city, Copernicus Town , pushpin_map = Kuyavian-Pom ...

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(Italy), and

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(Slovenia). She is a member of the International Institute for Archival Science (Trieste and Maribor), as well as various academic councils at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,

Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, VNLU ( uk, Національна бібліотека України імені В.І. Вернадського) is the main academic library and main scientific information centre in Ukraine, one of t ...

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, Central State Archives of Foreign Archival Ucrainica, and Symon Petliura library in Paris. Since 2020, she has been the chief editor of „Ukrainian Archives“, a leading Ukrainian journal on archival studies.„Ukrainian Archives“ issue for Q1 of 2020
/ref> Paliienko is the author of almost 200 scientific works. In 2006, her book on the ''

'' сhronicle was recognized as one of the best books of the year in the field of history by the Ukrainian national award „Book of the Year“.

References

External links

Maryna Paliienko's English-language publications

Maryna Paliienko's publications

Maryna Paliienko's publications
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