Nataliia Ivchyk is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Sciences at Rivne State Humanities University in Ukraine. She earned PhD in History (Candidate of Historical Sciences) from Yuriy Fed’kovych Chernivtsi National University in 2012. Ivchyk has been holding a number of international fellowships. She has been a Fellow of the Initiative on Ukrainian-Jewish Shared History and the Holocaust in Ukraine, at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (the USA, 2017-2018.) She has conducted for her research project, “Ghettos in the General District of Volhynia-Podolia in Memories of Jewish Victims and Neighbors,” at the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, Yad Vashem (Israel, 2018). Research project: Life and Agony of the Jews in the Rivne Ghetto: Reconstructing Women’s Experiences. Also, Nataliia Ivchyk is a member and project manager of NGO “Center of Studies of Memory Policy and Public History “Mnemonics” http://mnemonika.org.ua/ (Rivne, Ukraine). The project was realized by NGO “Mnemonics” is “Developing of the Tools to Withstand Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia” (Democracy Small Grants Program, PAS, U.S. Embassy to Ukraine, (2018-
2019.) She is a co-author of the book “The town of memory – the town of oblivion: the palimpsests of the memorial landscape of Rivne” (Rivne, 2017). The one chapter of the book covers the gender aspect of the symbolic space of Rivne and represents the influence of it to the memory of local citizenships.