Lecturers
Margarita Chabanna
Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Department of Political Science at NaUKMA. Research interests include political consciousness, political manipulation, (anti)corruption in electoral processes, social transformations in totalitarian and post-totalitarian states, and European studies.
Author of over 70 publications.
Within the framework of the Certificate Program in European Studies, she offers the following modules:
- European studies: politics, society, culture
- Politics and economy: European context
- European integration: cultural transformations
- EU’s Enlargement policy: social perception
- European values and political consciousness
- Party politics of the EU
- Anticorruption policies: European experience
Mykola Hnatyuk
Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Jean Monnet Program and Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His teaching and research focus on European integration, particularly its foreign policy and security dimensions. Mykola Hnatyuk also has experience collaborating with government bodies (Government Office for Coordination of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration) and with a number of national and international projects, including Support to the Implementation of EU-Ukraine Association Agreement Phase I & II.
The scholarly work of Dr. Mykola Hnatyuk has been recognized with the Petro Mohyla Prize in 2017 in the field of social sciences, the President of Ukraine’s Grant in 2018, and by the Jean Monnet departments for 2017–2020 and 2021–2023.
Within the framework of the Certificate Program in European Studies, he offers the following modules:
- EU’s enlargement policy: institutional, cultural, and economic aspects
- The European Security and Defense Policy
- The EU and European Security
- NATO and the EU in the New European Security Architecture
- The EU, U.S and Transatlantic Partnership
- European Union and China: Lingering Conflict?
- The EU and Geopolitics: Exploring Links between Integration and Power
- Europeanisation and Ukraine: Association Agreement and beyond
- European Integration and Nation-State
- European Neighborhood Policy and Eastern Partnership
- European Integration and Ukraine: From a Neighbor to Member?
Author of the courses European Integration: Institutional, Cultural, and Economic Aspects and The European Union: Global and Regional Dimensions for students of the European Studies program.
Rostyslav Pavlenko
Candidate of Political Sciences, Member of Parliament of Ukraine (“European Solidarity”). He has held positions as Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine (until 2018), Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies (2018–2019), and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Ukrainian Week. He is a graduate of NaUKMA and the Central European University. In 2005, he headed the Department of Political Science at NaUKMA.
Within the framework of the Certificate Program in European Studies, he conducts a series of lecture-discussions on Ukraine’s European integration, military support from other countries, and the impact of political developments in the USA and the EU on Ukraine, among other topics.
Andreas Umland
German-Ukrainian researcher, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science at NaUKMA, editor of the collection Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society and the journal Forum of Contemporary East European History and Culture, and researcher at the Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Institute in Kyiv.
Within the framework of the Certificate Program in European Studies, he offers lectures on:
- Ukraine in the Gray Zone: How to Organize the East European Geopolitical Space
- Problems and Instruments of Ukraine’s Integration into the European Union
- Geopolitical Concepts and Misconceptions in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe
- The Ukrainian Far Right Before and After the Euromaidan Revolution
- Historical Ukrainian Nationalism and the Challenges of Post-Soviet Memory Politics
- Sources, Origins and Solutions of the Donbas Conflict since 2014
- Is the Ukrainian-Russian War a Triadic Nexus Conflict? Moscow’s “Homeland Nationalism” versus Kyiv’s Nationalization Policies
- Crimea’s Demography and Polity in Russian Propaganda and Ukrainian History
Co-author of the course Public Policies in the European Union for students of the European Studies program.
Kostiantyn Sihov
Philosopher and public figure, Director of the Center for European Humanities at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and of the scholarly-publishing association Dukh i Litera, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Dukh i Litera.
Author of over 50 scholarly works on philosophy and the history of culture, philosophical anthropology, ethics, and art studies.
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research awarded him the Order of Academic Palms and the honorary title Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.