Ivanna Cherchovych is a historian and anthropologist, a Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology of Ethnology Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a member of Ukrainian Association for the Study of Women’s History. She obtained her academic degree “kandydat nauk” (Ph.D. equivalent) from Ivan Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in November 2014. Her dissertation was dedicated to everyday life of women from Ukrainian upper class in the late 19th century Habsburg Galicia. She was a visiting research fellow at Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg (2017) and German Historical Institute in Warsaw (2019). Her current research focuses on the women’s criminal experience in 19^th century Hubsburg Galicia.

Dr. Cherchovych’s visit to CERES is scheduled for April-May 2022. While in Toronto, she will work on the topic “Women in Crime: Gender, Justice and Punishment in late 19th Century Eastern Galicia.”