Faculty

Marta Havryshko

Marta Havryshko

Visiting Assistant Professor, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Dr. Marta Havryshko holds a PhD in History from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine). Her research interests are primarily focused on sexual violence during World War II and the Holocaust, women’s history, feminism, and nationalism.

More on Marta here: https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/all-fellows-and-scholars/dr-marta-havryshko

Degrees

  • Ph.D. in History, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2010
  • M.A. in History, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2006
  • B.A. in History, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2005

Affiliated Department

Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

Scholarly and creative works

  • Presentations

    “Women’s Bodies as Battlefield: Holocaust and Beyond”

    Public Lecture
    University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
    April 24
    2025
    Sponsored by University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    “Women’s Strategies for Survival in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust”

    “Jews in the Soviet Union: The Complex Narrative”
    The Ghetto Fighters’ House, Israel
    March 9
    2025
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    “Antisemitism in a Turbulent World”

    Clark University
    Clark University
    February 17
    2025
    Marta Havryshko
  • Chapters In Books

    La Guerra d’indipendenza Ucraina. Come il con”itto ha cambiato il Paese (2014-2024)
    Chapter: Soldati, mascolinità e violenza sessuale nella guerra della Russia contro l’Ucraina. Simone A. Bellezza, Oleksiy Bondarenko Marco Puleri, Matteo Zola (eds.) 

    Published by Scholé
    2025
    Marta Havryshko
  • Other Scholarly or Creative Work

    Ukraine: Zwischen SS-Mythos und Gedenkkultur – wie der Westen zur Nazi-Apologie schweigt, Berliner Zeitung, 20 April 2025

    Marta Havryshko
  • Other Scholarly or Creative Work

    Antisemitischer Brauch in der Ukraine: Was hat es mit dem „Vertep“ auf sich? Berliner Zeitung, 4 Jan. 2025

    Marta Havryshko
  • Other Scholarly or Creative Work

    Miss-Brauchte Körper, Der Krieg und Seine Opfer (Decoder), 5 Dec. 2024 

    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    Sexual Violence in Russia’s War on Ukraine

    “Gender, War and Memory: The Baltic States and Ukraine”
    Sponsored by The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
    Marta Havryshko
  • Other Scholarly or Creative Work

    Organization of the workshop “Holocaust in Ukraine: History, Memory, and Education in the Changing World” at Clark University

    November 7-8
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    Effects of Sexual Violence on Women in Russia’s War on Ukraine

    Annual Conference of the Population Health and Armed Conflict Network
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    October
    2024
    Sponsored by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    Rape on Trial: Holocaust Survivors and Post-War Soviet Justice

    Colloquium at Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University
    Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University
    2024
    Sponsored by Clark University
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    Sexual violence in Russia’s war against Ukraine: Nature, Effects, Responses

    Public Lecture at Clark University
    Clark University
    2024
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    Sexual violence in Ukraine in the Holocaust and in the war with Russia

    Workshop at Davis Center at Harvard University
    Davis Center at Harvard University
    2024
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    War on Women’s Bodies: Sexual Violence during the Holocaust in Ukraine

    In between violence, sexualization and intimacy
    Villa ten Hompel Memorial, Münster, Germany
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    They have mentally destroyed me”: effects of sexual violence on survivors during Russia’s war on Ukraine

    Association for Studies of Nationalities 2024 World Convention
    Columbia University
    2024
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    Sexual violence against women within the Holocaust

    The Holocaust as a Staring Point. Advanced training Bosnia-Herzegovina – Croatia – Serbia dialogue
    First Technical School Nikola Tesla, Zagreb, Croatia
    2024
    Sponsored by Mémorial de la Shoah
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    Ethical Issues in Sensitive Interviewing

    Innovative & Interdisciplinary Methods of Sensitive Interviewing
    Ins􀆟tute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University, Germany
    2024
    Sponsored by Humboldt University
    Marta Havryshko
  • Chapters In Books

    No Neighbours’ Land: Postwar Europe in a New Comparative Perspective
    Chapter: “Rape on Trial: Criminal Justice Actors in 1940s Soviet Ukraine and Sexual Violence During the Holocaust” 

    Published by Palgrave Macmillan
    2023
    Marta Havryshko
  • Chapters In Books


    Chapter: Sexual Crimes in Russia’s Wars against Ukraine: History Repeating itself, Gender dimensions of war

    Published by Analytical research of the Analytical Center “Jurfem”
    2023
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    Holocaust Education in Times of Russia’s War on Ukraine

    Holocaust Education in Times of Russia’s War on Ukraine
    Online
    2023
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    Women in Russia’s War on Ukraine: Choices, Roles and Challenges

    Kurs herstoryczny “Doświadczenie i nie/pamięć
    Polin, Warsaw
    2023
    Sponsored by Polin
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    Narrating Rape: Holocaust Survivors, Post-War Soviet Justice and Silence

    Lessons and Legacies 2023
    Prague
    November
    2023
    Sponsored by Northwestern University
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center: Memory and Action in Times of War

    Symposium Babyn Yar, the Holocaust & Beyond: Architectures of Memory
    Koffler Center of the Arts
    November
    2023
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    Sexual Violence as a War Weapon

    Rethinking Gender, War, and Peace in XXIst Century: Ukraine in Comparative Perspective
    Lund University
    November
    2023
    Sponsored by Lund University
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    The Offender Next Door: Local Perpetrators of Sexual Violence during the Holocaust in Ukraine

    Ukraine and the Jews
    University of Florida
    October
    2023
    Sponsored by University of Florida
    Marta Havryshko
  • Presentations

    (Un)Hidden: The Gendered Cost of War for Women in Ukraine

    Feuerbach 11 Dialogues of the Peripheries conference
    Journal "Commons"
    October
    2023
    Marta Havryshko
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