Sofiia Diak

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Sofia Dyak is a historian and director of the Center for Urban History (Ukraine), an institution focusing on research, digital humanities, public history, and education. She holds PhD in Sociology from the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). Dr. Dyak studies urban postwar transformations and recoveries, especially in post-displacement cities, and the role of heritage practices and concepts in socialist contexts. She has published on history and architecture in Ukraine, curated exhibitions and commemorative projects, and is currently finishing her book New Lives in Old Cities: Postwar Lviv and the Power of Appropriation. She was a fellow at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, the Historical Dialogue and Accountability Program at Columbia University and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and a senior research fellow at the Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam. Dr. Dyak is a member of board of directors of Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter (Canada), academic board of the Centre for Historical Research of the Polish Academy of Science in Berlin, scientific advisory board for the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS), and academic council of European Architectural History Network.