Dr. Pavlo Khudish 

Pavlo Khudish is an assistant professor at the Department of Archaeology, Ethnology and Cultural Studies, Faculty of History and International Relations, Uzhhorod National University (Ukraine). He specializes in Holocaust studies, the modern history of Central and Eastern Europe, Jewish studies, and social history and interethnic relations in the Carpathian region.

In 2019-2020, Pavlo was a postdoctoral visiting research fellow at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2018, he was awarded a research grant for young scholars by the Moshe Mirilashvili Center in Yad Vashem for his research “We cannot build Palestine in our village of Richka”: Jewish-gentile relations in postwar Transcarpathia.” He serves as a mentor in the project “Connecting Memory,” which aims to develop and implement long-term strategies for the Holocaust memorialization culture in Ukraine, co-organized by the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Germany) and the Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies, and NGO “Insha Osvita” (Ukraine).