Dr. Anastasiia Bozhenko

Anastasiia Bozhenko was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine. She studied history at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. In 2019 she defended her PhD thesis entitled »The Formation of an Urban Way of Life from the Second Half of the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century —the case of Kharkiv« at the same University. Since 2019 Anastasiia has been working as a senior teacher in the Department of Ukrainian Studies. She has held scholarships at the Lviv Center for Urban History (2019) and at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (2022-2024). Her research interests include heritage studies, memory studies, urban history and postcolonial studies. 

Anastasiia Bozhenko has been a researcher within the collaborative project »Cities.Building.Culture 2« since February 2025.

• Soviet architectural heritage in Ukraine
• Oral history
• Decolonisation and commemoration in urban spaces

• Mitglied in der NGO »Urban Forms Center«
• Mitglied in der NGO »Art Oborona«

Anastasiia Bozhenko teaches on the bachelor programme »Urban Studies« at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in the Department of Ukrainian Studies.