Hanna Filipova
EU-Postdoc (Marie Curie grant)
Department of Historical StudiesAbout Hanna Filipova
Early-modern historian.
In 2015 graduated from the Department of History of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, in 2018 defended Ph.D. thesis at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Before the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine worked in several Ukrainian scientific and museum institutions. Since April 2022 has been working at the University of Gothenburg.
Areas of expertise: Russian economic and political expansion into the Hetman State during the reign of Peter I; political ideology of the Russian Empire; propaganda during the Great Northern War 1700–1721; queer and gender history in the context of early modern propaganda; prisoners of war during the Great Northern War 1700–1721.
Current projects: Dialogues, disputes and battles: propaganda during the Great Northern War 1700–1721 (funded through the MSCA4Ukraine project, which is funded by European Union), April 2023 – April 2025.