Martin-Oleksandr Kisly

A historian of Crimea and Crimean Tatars with a focus on Soviet and post-Soviet periods. In 2021 he defended a PhD dissertation entitled “Crimean Tatars’ Return to the Homeland in 1956–1989”. His research interests include (but not limited to): oral history, memory, trauma, identity, migration and colonialism. Current fellow at Indiana University, Linda Hall Library (Kansas) and Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study. Expert of a Council on cognitive de-occupation.