Prof. Dr. Olena Panych

Ukrainische Projektmitarbeiterin

Projekt: The Trials of the Religious Dissidents in the Late Soviet Union, 1960-80s: Between Judicial and Political

Fachrichtung: Religionsgeschichte, history of religion

E-Mail: olenadnwhatever@yahoo.com

 

Arbeitsgebiete

  • History of religion

Zur Person

  • 1997 Specialist in History, Diploma of higher education Cum laude, Donetsk State University
  • 2003 Candidate of History (Ukr. Kandydat istorychnykh nauk [PhD equivalent]), Donetsk National University
  • 2003 - 2009 Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Musicology, Institute of Human Studies of Donetsk National University
  • 2008 Associate Professor (as a state-awarded title, Ukr. “Docent”), Department of Cultural and Religious studies, Donetsk National University
  • 2009 - 2013 Vice-Rector for Research, Donetsk Christian University
  • 2021 - 2022 Associate professor, Department of Religious Studies, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Stipendien/Auszeichnungen

  • Fulbright scholar award for the research project: “Memory and Identity of Post-Soviet Evangelicals in USA and Ukraine: A Comparative Study”, 2012-2013

  • Euro-Asian Accreditation Association Research & Resource Center grant for the research project: Evangelical Christians-Baptists after World War II: The Formation of Their Subculture, 2012

  • American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) short-term grant for the research project: The Influence of the Policy of "Scientific Atheism" on the Everyday Life of Evangelical Christians-Baptists in Ukraine (1950s – 1980s.), 2009-2010

Mitgliedschaften/Funktionen (Auswahl)

  • Associate professor, Department of Religious Studies, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Sep 2021 - today

  • Vice-Rector for Research, Donetsk Christian University, Sep 2009 – Sep 2013

  • Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Musicology, Institute of Human Studies of Donetsk National University, Sep 2003 – Aug 2009

Publikationen

  • „Die Evangeliumschristen-Baptisten in der Ukraine“, Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West. #11/2017, pp. 22-24 (German)
  • “International Activities of Evangelical Christians-Baptists during the Soviet State Atheism”, 1960-1980ies, Ukrainian Historical Journal, 2017. #5, pp. 119-137. (Ukrainian) 
  • Churches at Euromaidan: in Search for Leadership”, in Rob Van der Laarse, Mykhailo N. Cherenkov, Vitaliy V. Proshak, and Tetiana Mykhalchuk, eds., Religion, State, Society, And Identity in Transition Ukraine, Oisterwijk, Wolf Legal Publishers (WLP), 2015: pp. 395-413. (English)
  • “Evangelical Baptist Community in Ukraine in the late Twentieth and early Twenty-First Century: the Religious Tradition before the Challenges of the Transition Period”, Crossroads. Journal of Research of the Eastern European Borderland, 2013, # 3-4, pp. 202-227. (Russian)
  • “Scientific Atheism as a Cultural System”, Ukrainian Religious Studies, 2015. №76, pp. 21-35. (Ukrainian)
  • “Memory and Іdentity among post-Soviet Evangelical Christians Baptists in contemporary Ukraine”, Religion, State & Society, 2014, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 354–373. (English)
  • “Maidan and Ukrainian Evangelical Churches: Social Challenges for Religious Consciousness”, in L. O. Fylypovych, O. V. Horkusha, eds., in Maidan and Church. Chronicle and expertise, Kyiv: Sammit-Knyha, 2014, pp. 155-159. (Ukrainian)
  • “Children and Childhood among Evangelical Christians Baptists during the Late Soviet Period (1960s-1980s)”, Theological Reflections, #13 (2012), pp. 155-169. (English)
  • “A Time and Space of Suffering: Reflections of the Soviet Past in the Memoirs and Narratives of the Evangelical Christians Baptists” in Catherine Wanner, ed., State Secularism and Lived Religion in Soviet Russia and Ukraine (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington DC; Oxford University Press, NY, 2012), pp. 218-243. (English)
  • "Soviet Baptism after World War II: Rethinking the Concept of Church," in Mary Raber and Peter F. Penner, eds., ‘History and Mission in Europe: Continuing the Conversation’ (Schwarzenfeld, Germany: Neufeld Verlag, 2011), pp. 141-160. (English)