Tetiana Shyshkina

Projects

Research, digital, and public-facing projects at the intersection of history, data, and scholarly communication.

Doctoral research · 1942–1948

The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee Network Dynamics

A study of how the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee operated through institutional, interpersonal, and transnational connections—and how those connections shaped visibility, brokerage, and constraint within the Soviet wartime system.

FocusSoviet Jewish culture, wartime mobilisation, transnational connections

SourcesArchival documents, correspondence, Yiddish press, institutional records

MethodsHistorical network analysis, prosopography, text analysis, GIS

Eynikayt

One strand reconstructs co-authorship networks in Eynikayt and examines how authors, editors, and institutions became visible in the Committee’s principal Yiddish-language newspaper. The corpus contains 701 issues published between 1942 and 1948.

Archival and transnational networks

The archival strand traces the Committee’s connections within the Soviet Union and abroad through correspondence, the circulation of materials, organisational contacts, and the 1943 journey of Mikhoels and Fefer.

Outputs

The project brings together the dissertation, research visualisations, conference presentations, and writing on Soviet Jewish culture and networks.

Historical data · Kyiv, 1897

Tamuz: Revisiting the 1897 Census

A digital exploration of households, migration, occupations, and family structures in the Kyiv suburb of Demiivka through surviving materials from the 1897 census.

PlaceDemiivka, Kyiv

DataSurviving census sheets and structured records about residents

MethodsData modelling, descriptive statistics, mapping, visualisation

From document to data

The project transforms individual census entries into a connected data structure while preserving relationships among people, households, places of origin, occupations, and family ties.

Research perspective

Tamuz approaches Demiivka not as an abstract suburb but as a social space shaped by mobility, labour, and everyday relationships.

Data infrastructure · 2024–present

Data and Workflow Infrastructure for Invisible University for Ukraine

Designing and maintaining systems that connect registration, application review, course coordination, and document production across a complex international educational programme.

RoleWorkflow design, data modelling, automation, and quality assurance

ScopeApplications, courses, attendance, documentation, and certificates

TechnologiesGoogle Apps Script, JavaScript, Python, pandas, JSON, GitHub, Vercel

01Intake

02Validation

03Coordination

04Documents

Data architecture

Branch-aware forms, structured tables, and stable identifiers connect the stages from application to course completion while preserving the provenance and status of each record.

Automation and validation

Scripts generate identifiers, normalise values, detect missing fields, duplicates, and mismatches across sources, and support document preparation and operational reporting.

Responsible data management

The system is designed around data minimisation, controlled access, and a clear separation between operational and public materials. This case study uses only abstracted descriptions and demonstration data.