Cherviatsova, Alina

Alina Cherviatsova is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow (research project ‘To Destroy or to Preserve? Monuments, Law and Democracy in Europe’), Human Rights Center, Programme for studies on human rights in context, Faculty of Law and Criminology, Ghent University. She is a coordinator of the Jean Monnet Module “On-line Ghent University Academy for Ukrainian Lecturers: EU Law and Policy” (2022-25). Also, she is a co-founder of the Eureast Platform Knowledge Centre 'Ukraine and Eastern Europe' (‘Ukraine-plus’, Ghent University).

Dr. Alina Cherviatsova has been awarded research fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Max Planck Institute of European Legal History, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law, the University of Turin, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Toronto. She is an alumna of Max Planck Society, US State Department International Exchange Program, and the Swedish Institute. Before joining Ghent University in May 2021, she was Associate professor of the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, teaching international law, comparative public law, constitutional law of Ukraine, and human rights. She was Vice Dean for International Cooperation, Faculty of Law, an (co)author of applications and coordinator of 3 Jean Monnet Modules at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (2014-17, 2018-2021, 2019-2021). She was a co-founder of the Journal of Law of the V. N. Karazin National University and Secretary of its editorial board. Her research interests include European memory policies and ‘memory’ law; Soviet and post-Soviet studies; comparative public law and international law; EU law and policy.

At UNU-CRIS, Alina Cherviatsova will serve as a visiting research fellow within the Regions and Cities Governance Lab (Re-LAB) and she will primarily work on the research project ‘To destroy or to Preserve? Monuments, Law and Democracy in Europe (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship).