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Andrii Portnov is a historian of modern Ukraine. He is the initiator of the Berlin-Brandenburg Ukraine Initiative, Guest of the Rector at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and long-term Fellow of the Forum Transregionale Studien. Andrii Portnov specializes in intellectual history, historiography, genocide and memory studies in Eastern and Central Europe. He has been a Guest Lecturer at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin since 2012. In 2015 he was awarded Baron Velge Prize and conducted a series of lectures as International Chair for the History of the Second World War at the Free University of Brussels. In 2014-2015 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Humboldt-Universiät zu Berlin and Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, in 2012-2014 he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is a co-founder and co-editor of the Ukrainian intellectual web portal www.historians.in.ua. In the years 2007-2011 he has lectured or conducted research at Cambridge, Helsinki, and Vilnius Universities as well as at the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam and the Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (CERCEC) in Paris. From 2006-2010 he was Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal “Ukraina Moderna”.

Portnov graduated from Dnipropetrovsk (MA in History) and Warsaw (MA in Cultural Studies) Universities. He obtained his PhD in 2005 at the Ivan Krypiakevych Institute for Ukrainian Studies. His publications include the books: Histories for Home Use. The Polish-Russian-Ukrainian Triangle of Memory (in Ukrainian, 2013; Yuri Shevelov Prize); Historians and their Histories. The Faces and Images of Ukrainian Historiography in the 20th century (in Ukrainian, 2011); Ukrainian Exercises with History (in Russian, 2010); Between “Central Europe” and the “Russian World” (in Ukrainian, 2009); Scholarship in Exile. The Scholarly Activity of Ukrainian Emigration in inter-war Poland 1919-1939 (in Ukrainian, 2008; Jerzy Giedroyc Prize). Currently he works on the biography of the city of Dnipropetrovsk.