Professional Background
Andrii Rukkas is an associate professor of history at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where he also received a PhD in history. His academic research focuses on the military history of Ukraine and Poland and the Ukrainian War of Independence (1917–1921), and he teaches courses on Central and Southeastern European history, Holocaust history, and modern military history.
Dr. Rukkas has participated in more than 100 academic conferences and has authored more than 120 publications. He is a member of the editorial boards of several international scholarly journals, including Karo Archivas (Lithuania), Latvijas Universitātes Žurnāls. Vēsture and Latvijas Kara Muzeja Gadagrāmata (Latvia), and Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość (Poland). He has received several awards for his academic achievements, including the 2024 Taras Shevchenko University Prize, the 2023 honorary badge “For Academic and Educational Achievements” awarded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and the 2020 international Przegląd Wschodni award. In 2022, he was elected as a foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, and in 2025, he became a full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Geopolitics and Geostrategy. Dr. Rukkas has held numerous international research fellowships at prestigious institutions, including the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Klaipėda University, Charles University in Prague, the University of Latvia in Riga, Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, the Kennan Institute, and the University of Warsaw.
Fellowship Research
While at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Visiting Fellow, Andrii Rukkas will conduct research on anti-Jewish violence perpetrated by local collaborators in Kyiv during the autumn of 1941.
Residency Period: January 1, 2026–April 30, 2026