
Iryna Sklokina
Historian
Iryna Sklokina is a historian and a research associate at the Center for Urban History in Lviv. She focuses on historical heritage, in particular industrial and Soviet heritage in the Donbas and in Lviv. She wrote her PhD dissertation on Soviet memory policy about the Nazi occupation of Ukraine. She holds a master’s degree in history from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Iryna co-authored and co-edited the book Labor, Exhaustion, and Success: Company Towns of Donbas (2018, with Volodymyr Kulikov) and a special issue of the Region journal, titled “Donbas Imaginaries: Heritage, Culture, Communities” (2021, with Victoria Donovan). Since 2022, Iryna has been a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the Social Politics in European Borderlands project, a comparative and transnational study (1870s-1990s). Her research focuses on working-class women in the Galician (Polish-Ukrainian) borderland. Iryna’s research interests are: Soviet and post-Soviet politics of memory, historical heritage, museum studies, oral history.