People

Serhii Plokhii 

plokhii@fas.harvard.edu

Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History, Harvard University; Director, Ukrainian Research Institute

Serhii Plokhii is Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University, Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, and Faculty Director for the MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine program. He teaches courses and...

Kostyantyn Bondarenko

kbondar@fas.harvard.edu

IT Professional/MAPA Project Manager at Ukrainian Research Institute

Kostyantyn Bondarenko is IT Professional at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University and Project Manager for the MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine program. Since 2001, he has worked at the Institute to improve and expand its IT services by...

Sonya Gupta

MAPA Research Assistant; graduate student at REECA program

She graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a double degree (in Biological Sciences and Polish, Russian, & Eastern European Studies) and a minor in sociology. As a self-taught GIS user, Sonya has spent the last few years using GIS to...

Nadiya Kravets

MAPA Program Associate

Nadiya Kravets was a GIS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (2013-2016) and a Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University (2012-2016). Her research focuses...

Nataliia Levchuk

Senior Researcher at the Ptoukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Nataliia Levchuk is a Senior Researcher at the Ptoukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She received her PhD in Demography from the Institute of Economics and the Institute of Demography and Social...

Joseph Livesey

MAPA Program Associate

Joseph Livesey worked as a Research Affiliate on MAPA's 'The Great Famine' project between 2011 and 2012, taking part in early demonstrations of the MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine program design process in Cambridge, Toronto, and New York City in 2013. As...

Tom Mueller

MAPA Program Associate

Tom Mueller has been a geography professor at California University of Pennsylvania since 1999. He received his degrees at Towson University (BS), University of Connecticut (MA) and University of Illinois (Ph.D.). His interests include Geographic...

Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy

MAPA Program Associate

Vitaliy Mykhaylovskiy is an Associate Professor, Borys Hrinchenko Kyiv University. As a fellow at HURI (2013-2014 ), Mykhailovskiy conducted research that defined the types of elites in the Ukrainian territory at the second half of the 14th through the...

Gennadi Poberezny

MAPA Program Associate

Gennadi Pobereƶny is an associate at Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, where he was the principal cartographer and chief designer of the Holodomor project for Digital Atlas of Ukraine (2010-2014). Presently, he is collaborating on two other Holodomor...

Christian Raffensperger

MAPA Program Associate

Christian Raffensperger is an associate professor at Wittenberg University. He obtained his B.A. from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His first book, released by Harvard University Press, won the...

Viktoriya Sereda

MAPA Program Associate

Viktoriya Sereda (sociologist) was a GIS Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute in 2016-2017 and in 2019-2020 where she worked on the following modules of the “MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine” project: “History and identity,” “Language,”...

Susana Torres Prieto

MAPA Program Associate

Susana Torres Prieto is Associate Professor of Humanities at IE University (Segovia). She has developed her academic and research career in the areas of Slavic and Medieval Studies. She has specialised on the literature and culture of Kyivan Rus’, as well...