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Employment History

2019- 2025	Associate professor, Department of Archaeology, Ethnology and Cultural Studies, Faculty of History and International Relations, Uzhhorod National University Coordinator of the field ethnographic practice of students of the Faculty of History and International Relations of Uzhhorod National University. Established the annual publication Etnika Karpat which publishes the main materials of ethnographic expeditions. (Four issues were published between 2016 and 2019. Several are ready for printing). Teach foundational courses such as Ethnology, Theory and Practice of Oral History Research, Ethnography of Transcarpathia
2009-2019	Associate professor, Department of Ukrainian History, Faculty of History and International Relations, Uzhhorod National University
2007-2009	Lecturer, Department of Ukrainian History, Faculty of History and International Relations, Uzhhorod National University
2003	Art critic (Category II), Rylsky Institute of Art, Folklore and Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences (Kyiv)
2001-2002	History Teacher, Uzhhorod School № 12

Education

2015-2018	Study towards a Doctor of Sciences degree (habilitation/doktorantura), Uzhhorod National University. Topic: “Soviet Politics of Memory in Transcarpathia”
2008	Candidate of Sciences Degree (PhD), Rylsky Institute of Art, Folklore and Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences (Kyiv) Dissertation Title: “Slovak Ethnology: Stages, Development Trends and Main Problems.”
2003-2006	Study towards a Candidate of Sciences degree (aspirantura) Ukrainian Ethnological Centre, Rylsky Institute of Art, Folklore and Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences (Kyiv)
2001	Specialist Diploma (equivalent of a master’s degree) in history with a specialization in world history and the qualification of “History Teacher,” Faculty of History Uzhhorod National University (1996-2001)
2001	Specialist Diploma in Legal Studies with the qualification of “jurist,” Law Faculty, Uzhhorod National University (1996-2001)

Memberships

Ukrainian Association of Oral History

Additional Research Positions

2025-2026	Researcher for the project DRANICA.24 – «Promoting the immaterial wooden heritage of the Carpathian Euroregion. A technical handbook for traditional woodworking» INTERREG VI-A NEXT Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine programme
2024-2025	Researcher for the project «Documenting Ukraine» for Institute for Human Science (IWM)
2021-2022	Expert-Researcher at the Civic Organization “Imago-Kultury” (Uzhhorod) Expert on ethnographic field research for the cultural-artistic project “Innovative forms of protecting nonmaterial cultural heritage in Ukraine and supporting local communities through creating a virtual pilot museum of gastronomic heritage ‘Showcasing Transcarpathia.’” Supported by the Ukrainian Cultural Fund (Grant № 4ICP52‑28369 of 30.06.2021)
2021	Researcher for the Civic Organization “Ukrainian Women’s Congress,” Kyiv. Researcher for a historical project “Women’s history of Leadership and Solidarity.”
2021	Expert on Lemko Culture and History for the Perechyn Local Council. Expert researcher for the project “Get to know the Culture of Transborder Regions in Poland and Ukraine” PBU2/0929/18
2020-2021	Regional coordinator at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Charitable Foundation (Kyiv) Regional coordinator of the project “Voices. Testimonies of the Holocaust Ukraine.”
2019-2021	Assistant coordinator at Uzhhorod National University Coordinated field and theoretical research within the framework of the international project “KRA’GAS – Promotion of Crafts and Gastronomy as Relevant Components of the Cultural Heritage of the Carpathian Euroregion” ID: HUSKROUA/1702/3.1/0027
2019	Local Coordinator of the Civic Organization “INPRO” in Rzeszow (Poland) Local coordinator of international exchange students for the Erasmus+ program for the project “Local Borders of Carpathian Worlds.”

Conferences organized

2024	Second International Scientific Conference of the Ukrainian Association of Oral History: “Oral History in Wartime: Scholarly Knowledge and the Responsibility of the Researcher (Uzhhorod, 13-15 June). In partnership with the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, the Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography at the Kule Folklore Centre, Uzhhorod National University, Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, and Uzhhorod Skansen.
2023	Second International Scientific Conference “Identities in Borderlands” (Uzhhorod National University, 9-10 February)
2021	First International Scientific Conference “Identities in Borderlands” (Uzhhorod National University, 27-28 January)

Selected Publications

Leno, Pavlo. In progress. “Cultivating and Challenging Patronizing Images of Subcarpathian Rus.” For a special issue of Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies edited by Filip Herza and Martin Rohde entitled “Researching (in) the Carpathians: Knowledge and Politics in the Carpathian Mountains 1848-1939.” (Revised version submitted to special issue editors)

Lendel, Myroslava, Pavlo Leno, Maria Majorossy, Pavlo Khudish, and Nadiya Keretsman. In progress. “Soviet Authoritarianism and its Implications for Tangible and Intangible Heritage: The Case of Uzhhorod University.” Dealing with Complex Heritage: Revisiting University Pasts in Contemporary Practice. Edited by Peter Bille Larsen, Markéta Křížová, and Gerjan Plets. University of Edinburgh Press. (Revised version submitted to book editors)

Leno, Pavlo, editor. 2024. Identities in Borderlands: Proceedings of the Second International Scientific Conference (Uzhhorod, 9-10 February 2023) / Uzhhorod: RIK-U. 280 p (Ukrainian)

Leno, Pavlo. 2023. “Historical Memories in Transcarpathia: Oral Historical Reflections on the Second World War.” Etnografia Polska, 67 (1–2), p. 95-121. (English)

Leno, Pavlo, editor. 2022. Identities in Borderlands: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference (Uzhhorod, 27-28 January 2021) / Uzhhorod: RIK-U. 280 p (Ukrainian)

Leno, Pavlo. 2021. “Production of Homemade Distilled Spirits in the Life of the Population in Transcarpathia. An Attempt at an Historical and Anthropological Analysis.” Passing a Triple Frontier: Traditional Civilization and Sustainable Development in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Maramureş & Zakarpattia. Cluj-Napoca : Editura Mega, p. 182-230. (English)

Leno, Pavlo and Todorova, Natalia. 2021. “Wooden Spoons’ Makers and Spoon Carving in Transcarpathia.” Passing a Triple Frontier: Traditional Civilization and Sustainable Development in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Maramureş & Zakarpattia. Cluj-Napoca : Editura Mega, p. 275-292. (English)

Leno, Pavlo. 2021. “Memorialization of the ‘Liberators’ During the Period of Preventive Sovietization of Transcarpathia (1944-1946).” Scientific Bulletin of Uzhhorod University: Series: History. Uzhhorod: Hoverla. Issue 2 (45). p. 142-150. (in Ukrainian)

Leno, Pavlo. 2019. “Ethnic Homogenization of the Urban Population of Transcarpathia During the Second World War and in the Soviet Period.” Scientific Bulletin of Uzhhorod University: Series: History / edited by N. P. Keretsman. Uzhhorod: Hoverla. Issue 1 (40). p. 55-60. (in Ukrainian)

Leno, Pavlo. 2020. “The Main Forms and Methods of Mass Political Work in Transcarpathia During the Period of Developed Socialism (1964-1982).” Scientific Collection of the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life. Issue 7 / edited by V. Kotsan, M. Megela. Uzhhorod: Publishing house of Oleksandra Harkusha. p. 589-604. (in Ukrainian)

Leno, Pavlo. 2020. “Problems and Prospects of Modern Ethnography in Transcarpathia.” Scientific Collection of the Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life. Issue 8 / edited by V. Kotsan, M. Megela. Uzhhorod: Publishing house of Oleksandra Harkusha. p. 232-238. (in Ukrainian)

Leno, Pavlo. 2018. Mobilization of the Ethnicity of the Population of Transcarpathia during the Period of Preventive Sovietization of the Region (1944-1946). Archaeology, Ethnology and Protection of the Cultural Heritage of South-Eastern Europe. Collection of Scientific Papers Dedicated to the 25th Anniversary of the Department of Archeology and Ethnology of Ukraine of the I.I. Mechnikov Odesa National University. Odesa National University. p. 391-399. (in Ukrainian)

Leno, Pavlo. 2018. “Changes in the Urban Place Names of Transcarpathian Ukraine During the Period of Integration of the Region into the Ukrainian SSR (November 1944 – January 1946).” V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University Bulletin – Series ‘History of Ukraine. Ukrainian Studies: Historical and Philosophical Sciences.’ Issue 26. p. 118-124. (in Ukrainian)

Leno, Pavlo. 2017. “The Cult of Stalin in Transcarpathia (in Archival Data, Folklore and Oral Testimonies).” Materials for Ukrainian Ethnology. Kyiv: Rylsky Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Issue 16. p. 139-145. (in Ukrainian)

Leno, Pavlo. 2015. “Specificity of the Celebration of State and Church Holidays in the Life of Ukrainians in Transcarpathia in the Soviet Period.” Materials for Ukrainian Ethnology, Kyiv: Rylsky Institute of Art History, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Issue 14 (17). p. 122-129. (in Ukrainian)

Leno, Pavlo. 2013. “Ukraine and Ukrainians in the Images and Stereotypes of Western Cinema (1991-2013).” Scientific Bulletin of Uzhhorod University. Series: History, Issue 1, 2, pp. 129-134. (in Ukrainian)

Leno, Pavlo. 2011. “Modern Markers of Ukrainian Identity based on the Materials of Viseu de Sus, Maramures County.” Narodna tworchist ta Etnologia, (2) p. 70-73 (in Ukrainian)

Author of more than 100 publications.

Selected Conference presentations

2024	“’At War and About War’: Narratives (about) Representatives of Transcarpathian National Minorities.” International Scientific Conference of the Ukrainian Association of Oral History “Oral History in Wartime: Scholarly Knowledge and the Responsibility of the Researcher.” (Uzhhorod, 13-15 June).
2024	“Renaming and Naming as an Instrument of Colonization: The Example of Zakarpattia from the Late 19th – Mid-20th Centuries.” Od wielości doświadczeń do wspólnej antropologii? Polska-Ukraina / From the Multivocality of Experience to a Common Anthropology? Poland-Ukraine. (Sanok, Poland 4-7 June).
2024	“Historical Plots, Images and (Anti)heroes of Transcarpathia in Soviet Tourist Guides.” International Scientific-Practical Conference “Totalitarian Heritage and Contemporary Memory Politics: European Context and Regional Particularities (For Memorial Day of Political Repressions).” (Izmail, 17–18 May).
2024	“Impact of War on Field Research (The Case of Expeditions in Transcarpathia Oblast).” International Workshop “War, Science, and Emotions: The (Un)Spoken.” (Chernihiv, 21-22 February).
2023	“Soviet War Memorials in Transcarpathia: Experience from Below in Establishing, Worshipping, and Forgetting.” 77th Professor’s and Lecturer’s Scientific Conference of Uzhhorod National University. (Uzhhorod, 28 February).
2023	“Particularities of Commemorating the Hero of the USSR Oleksa Borkaniuk.” International Scientific-Practical Conference “Everyday Life of the Population of Western Ukrainian Lands in the Post War Years (1944-1955).” (Drohobych, 26 May).
2023	“Hospodárska každodennosť pri výstavbe pamätníka Hrdinom Karpát (1944-1945).” (Everyday Economic Life in the Period of Building Monuments to the Heroes of the Carpathians (1944-1945). XXVI International Conference “Etnológ a múzeum. Trhy a jarmoky“ (Trnava, Slovakia, 19-21 September).
2023	“To Be a Hutsul: From Constructing a Subethnos to Brand.” Eine Brücke aus Papier. Ukrainian-German Meeting of Writers in Ukraine. (Uzhhorod, 27-29 September).
2023	“Transcarpathia as an Example of a Borderland: Disputed Moments of Ethnographic, Dialect, and other Mappings.” Second International Scientific Conference “Identities in Borderlands.” (Uzhhorod, 9-10 November).
2022	“Methodological Particularities During Fieldwork of Oral History Research in Transcarpathia.” 76th Professor’s and Lecturer’s Scientific Conference of Uzhhorod National University. (Uzhhorod, 22 February).
2022	“Celebrating New Year’s Trees in Transcarpathian Ukraine in the Context of Soviet Politics of Memory (1944-46) Scientific Practical Conference “Everyday Life of the Western Lands of Ukraine in the Post-War Period (1944-53).” Ivan Franko Drohobych State Pedagogical University. (Drohobych, 27 May).
2022	“Cultivation of the Patriarchal Image of Subcarpathian Rus in Scientific and Art Studies During the Interwar Period: Visions, Nominations, Presentations.” International Conference “Researching (in) the Carpathians: Science & Politics in Carpathians 1848–1939.” (Prague, Czech Republic 13-14 October) Conference Program: https://researching.cz/)
2022	“Visual Sources in the Work of Local History Researchers (The Example of Photography,” Practical Seminar for Educators of the Teaching Centre of The Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine “Organizing Student Research in 2022/2023” (Online). 2-4 November.
2022	“On the Relevance of Postcolonial Studies in the Context of Studying Transcarpathia.” Educational Seminar of the Institute of National Memory “Struggle for Statehood: How do We Remember?” (Uzhhorod Skansen, 7-8 November).
2021	“Non/memory of War: Personal Histories of Transcarpathians Regarding the Period 1938-1945.” International Conference “Identity in Borderlands.” (Uzhhorod, 27-28 January).
2021	“Eschatological and other Motifs of the Holocaust in Oral History Testimonies of the Population of Transcarpathia.” 75th Professor’s and Lecturer’s Scientific Conference of Uzhhorod National University. (Uzhhorod, 26 February).
2021	“The Heritage of Lemkos in Perechyn.” Forum “Ethnoculture: Conserving the Heritage of Lemkos.” (Perechyn, 15-17 July).
2021	“The Oral History Researcher or Ethnographer: The Particularities of Working in the ‘field.’” Seminar-practicum of the Minor Academy of Sciences for Pedagogical Workers “The Particularities of Organizing Research Activities for Students.” (Kyiv, 5-6 October).
2021	“Instruments of Identification and Systematizing Elements of Gastronomical Heritage (The Example of Transcarpathia).” Online Training for Representatives of Territorial Communities and Civil Society. (18-22 October).
2021	“Food as an Element of Tradition and Component of Ethnic Consciousness.” Ukrainian Scientific-Educational Conference for the Project “Virtual Museum of Gastronomical Heritage ‘Showcasing Transcarpathia.’” (Uzhhorod, 5 November).
2021	“The President of Carpathian Ukraine Avhustyn Voloshyn in Memory Discourses.” VІ Ukrainian Scientific-Practical Conference “The Theoretical and Practical Dimensions of the Politics of Memory. Spaces of Memory. Spaces of Recollection, (Rivne, 3-4 May).
2019	“Countermemory and Postmemory in Transcarpathia: Dilemmas and Contradictions of Historical Discourses and Local Narratives.” Seminar for Practitioners and Directors of Scientific Departments of Social Studies and Humanities for the Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine “Oral History: Problems and Prospects of Using Narrative Sources in Historical Departments” (Kyiv, 15 May).
2019	“Victory Day (May 9) in Transcarpathia (analysis of modern commemorative practices).” Transregional Academy “After Violence: The (Im)Possibility of Understanding and Remembering,” (Dnipro, 10-17 June).
2019	“Hierarchy of Interethnic Relations in the Structure of Ethno-Mosaicism of Transcarpathia of the Interwar Period (an Oral-Historical Reflection of the Problem),” ASEEES 53rd Annual Convention New Orleans, LA (Online, 5 December). Winner of a grant for online participation from the International Association of the Humanities.

Languages

Ukrainian: native
English: reading – advanced; writing – advanced intermediate; speaking – preintermediate
Slovak: speak, read, and write fluently
Russian: advanced