Andriy Kohut

Dr Andriy Kohut is Director of the Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine and Stuart Ramsey Tompkins Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta. He holds a PhD in History from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and an M.A. from Ivan Franko Lviv National University. In 2022, he suspended his Fulbright Fellowship at Stanford University following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Dr Kohut has published numerous scholarly articles and edited collections from declassified KGB archives. His research interests include Soviet deportations, the Holodomor, communist secret services, memory politics, and cultural diplomacy.