Jean Monnet • EVADEM (2022–2025)

Yuriy Kotlyar

First Vice-Rector and Professor, Department of History, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor; Coordinator of the EU Erasmus+ international grant project under the Jean Monnet Module
“Implementation of European Values as the Basis of Democracy in Ukraine” (No. 101085843 — EVADEM, 2022–2025).

Coordinator of EVADEM
Doctor of Historical Sciences
Professor of History
First Vice-Rector, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University

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Brief biography

Yuriy Kotlyar is a Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, and First Vice-Rector of Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University.
He coordinates the EU Jean Monnet module EVADEM (2022–2025). He teaches courses including Military History of Ukraine, Current Issues in Ukrainian History,
Alternative History of Ukraine, Sacral History of Ukraine, History of the Peasantry of Southern Ukraine, and Ukraine and Europe in Historical Analogies.
Member of the National Union of Local Historians of Ukraine (since 2011) and full member of the Center for Ukrainian–European Scientific Cooperation (since 2022).
Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (University of Alberta) and participant of Erasmus+ exchanges at Ca’ Foscari (Venice).
Author and editor of over 300 scholarly works, including 8 single-authored and 11 collective monographs.

Key facts

Position

First Vice-Rector and Professor, Department of History, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University

Jean Monnet project

Coordinator of the EVADEM module “Implementation of European Values as the Basis of Democracy in Ukraine” (2022–2025)

Languages

Ukrainian, English

Contacts

E-mail: yuriy.kotlyar@chmnu.edu.ua
Phone: (+380 512) 76-55-92

Teaching

Military History of Ukraine
Current Issues in Ukrainian History
Alternative History of Ukraine
Sacral History of Ukraine
History of the Peasantry of Southern Ukraine
Ukraine and Europe in Historical Analogies

Professional memberships

Since 2011 — member of the National Union of Local Historians of Ukraine.
Since 2022 — full member of the Center for Ukrainian–European Scientific Cooperation.

Editorial boards

European Historical Studies (Kyiv)
Black Sea Past (Odesa)
Acta de Historia & Politica: Saeculum XXI (Mykolaiv)
Evropský filozofický a historický diskurz (Czech Republic)

Supervisor of six successfully defended PhD dissertations in Ukrainian history, world history, and political science.

International programs, internships and grants

2007: Research fellow, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
2010, 2019, 2020: Participant in Erasmus+ exchanges at Università Ca’ Foscari (Venice, Italy).
2016: Fellowship at the Jan Hus Educational Foundation (Czech Republic): “The Bologna Process and Innovations in European Education.”
2021: Research and pedagogical internship: “Implementation of innovative teaching practices and development of the educational process in historical sciences” — Faculty of Humanities, North University Centre in Baia Mare (Romania).
Publications abroad: Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic.

Editorial and book projects

Member of the regional editorial board of “Rehabilitated by History”: contributed to eight volumes of “Rehabilitated by History. Mykolaiv Region”.
Co-author of collective monographs (selection):
- Mykolaiv Region: Chronicle of Historical Events (2002)
- The Holodomor-Genocide of 1932–1933 in the Mykolaiv Region (2003)
- Mykolaiv Region during the Great Patriotic War: 1941–1944 (2004)
- German Settlers in Ukraine: History and Present (2006)
- Poles in Southern Ukraine: History and Present (2008)
- The Holodomor: Documentary Evidence in the Mykolaiv Region (2008)
- Multinational Mykolaiv Region: History of Ethnic Communities (2012)
Since 2017 — co-organizer of the multi-volume project “Mykolaiv Region: The Centenary of the Events of the Ukrainian Revolution (1917–1921)”.

Awards and distinctions

2003: Laureate of the Mykola Arkas Regional Cultural Award (Historical, Ethnographic, Archaeological Research; Protection of Cultural Heritage).
2002, 2005, 2006: Honorary Diplomas, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
2004: Badge of Distinction “Excellence in Education of Ukraine”.
2007: Honorary Diploma, Mykolaiv Regional State Administration.
2008: Honorary Diploma, Mykolaiv Regional Council.
2009: Badge “Petro Mohyla”.
2010: Diploma, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.
2011: Honorary Diploma, Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
2016: Honorary Distinction “For Services to the City of Mykolaiv”; Title “Honored Local Historian of Ukraine”.
2022: Badge of Distinction, Ministry of Education and Science “For Scientific and Educational Achievements”.
2023: Badge “Leader of Education. Mykolaiv Region”.
Honorary Distinction of the Mykolaiv Regional Council “For Services to the Mykolaiv Region” (Second Degree).

Scientific profile

Author and editor of over 300 scholarly works, including 8 single-authored and 11 collective monographs.
Research interests: history of Southern Ukraine, historical memory, European values and democratization, methodology of historical research,
and university–community interaction.

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