Tetiana Shyshkina · Berlin

Academic CV

Historian and Digital Humanities researcher working across Jewish history, Yiddish-language sources, archives, and computational methods.

Historical interpretation grounded in sources and data

My work brings Soviet and East European Jewish history into conversation with Digital Humanities. My doctoral research examines the institutional, interpersonal, and transnational networks of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee between 1942 and 1948 through archival records, the Yiddish press, correspondence, and structured historical data.

  • Soviet and East European Jewish history
  • Yiddish and the Jewish press
  • Digital Humanities
  • Historical Network Analysis
  • Digital archives and research data
  • Holocaust and memory studies

Founder and editor

Ukrainian Digital Humanities Initiative

Developing a bilingual platform on Ukrainian DH projects, research infrastructures, digital archives, methods, and opportunities.

Data Analyst · Course Coordinator · Student Mentor

Invisible University for Ukraine · Central European University

Course and student coordination, mentoring in academic writing and research methods, and the design and automation of workflows for programme data.

Digital Humanities Fellow

Leibniz Institute of European History · Mainz

Research on the networks of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, historical data modelling, and Historical Network Analysis.

Research Assistant

GiZo · DAAD project “Ukraine digital” · Justus Liebig University Giessen

Organisational and communication support for an international university project; data processing and Python-based document automation.

International Outgoing Mobility Coordinator

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Coordination of Erasmus+ and bilateral student mobility, student advising, and support with Learning Agreements.

PhD in History

Justus Liebig University Giessen · International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture

Dissertation: “The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Network Dynamics”. Jewish history, Historical Network Analysis, and Digital Humanities.

MA in History · Jewish Studies

Central European University · Vienna

MA in History and Archaeology · Jewish Studies

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

MA in Political Science · European Studies

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

BSc in Software Engineering

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

CLARIAH Digital Heritage and Humanities Summer School

Research School for Media Studies · 3 ECTS

Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives

Central European University Summer University

Intensive training in textual and audiovisual testimony, oral history, memory studies, and digital testimony archives.

Virtual Research Scholar

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum · Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

Die Ermordung der europäischen Juden

House of the Wannsee Conference · Berlin

Six-day seminar for researchers from Ukraine on Holocaust history and source-based work in a memorial and educational setting.

Course mentoring and coordination

Invisible University for Ukraine

  • (Re)thinking “Soviet”: Modern Ukrainian Identity and the Legacy of Communism
  • Migrations and Diversity in Modern East-Central Europe
  • Minorities in War-Torn Ukraine
  • Have We Ever Been Modern?

Co-organiser, AG Europe’s East

International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture · Giessen

Conference Organization Team

The Shadow of the Aegean: Memory, Identity and Trauma · GCSC

Guest lecturer

OFF University

Lecture and discussion: “Who Are ‘We’ in Ukrainian History Textbooks?”

Workshop Facilitator

Farbindungen: Yiddish Futures · University of Toronto

“The SNA for Yiddish Databases,” a workshop on network analysis, Yiddish Studies, and digital research data.

Rethinking Census 1897: Demiivka Individual Census Sheets

Computational Humanities Research · Lightning Talk

Co-authored presentation with Kostiantyn Moharychev and Maria Volkova.

The Press and the Holocaust

Conference presentation · Lisbon

Digital Academy

Presentation · Bielefeld / online

Transkribus User Conference

Poster · Innsbruck

The Connected Past

Conference presentation · Helsinki

7th European Conference on Social Networks

Poster · Ljubljana

From archival source to reproducible analysis

Digital Humanities

Historical Network Analysis · prosopography · digital source criticism · OCR/HTR · corpus methods

Programming and data analysis

Python · pandas · NetworkX · Jupyter · JavaScript · Google Apps Script

Data and standards

Data modelling and cleaning · metadata · TEI/XML · RDF/SPARQL · Web APIs · controlled vocabularies

Tools and publishing

Transkribus · Gephi · GIS · Git/GitHub · Vercel · Google Sheets · Excel

Visual communication

Adobe InDesign · Photoshop · Illustrator · Canva · photography

Working and research languages

Ukrainiannative
EnglishC1 · academic and professional working language
GermanB1.2 · currently progressing towards B2
YiddishB1 · actively used in research
HebrewA1