Ph.D.
Martin-Oleksandr researches the history of migration, the politics of memory, oral history, trauma, identity, and colonialism.
Martin-Oleksandr is a historian who studies the history of Crimea and the Crimean Tatars, and defended his dissertation entitled "The Return of the Crimean Tatars to their Homeland in 1956-1989".
He is interested in migration, memory, trauma, identities, and colonialism.
From 2009 to 2013, Martin-Oleksandr worked as an assistant at the Institute of Archeology, National Academy of Science. From 2015 to 2017, he held the position at the National Museum of Ukrainian History. In 2017-2018, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Center for Holodomor Studies, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Since 2021, he has been a Senior Lecturer in в Department of History at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.”
In addition, in 2016, Martin-Oleksandr became the Archival Guide to the Revolution on Granite, "Three Revolutions" project. From May 2017 to December 2018, he worked on the "Crimean Tatars' Memory of Holodomor" project.
In 2019-2020, Martin-Oleksandr was the Project Manager of the "History of 20th Century City in the Digital Age: The Educational Platform for Cultural Heritage" Project Manager. Since 2021, he has been an expert at the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. From 2021 to 2022, he was a local researcher in Ukraine in "Growing Old in the Soviet Union." In addition, from October 2022 to March 2023, he actively participated in the "Initiative for Crimean Tatars".
The scholar is the author of an online course for the Udemy platform, "Crimea: History and People," designed and produced by the Ukrainian institute, and the course "Creation of Modern Expositions in Historical Museums" for the platform "Open University of Maidan."
It is also part of the project "Crossing physical and imaginary borders: Crimean Tatar`s return home," which is run by the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe at the University of St. Gallen, and curated the exhibition "Lost Childhood: Stories from Ukraine" at the Memorial Museum Territory of Terror.
Martin-Oleksandr is also the author of Research for the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Architecture, "Crimean Tatar Modernism — An Architectural Project That Did Not Happen," curator of the historical part of the exhibition "Ruined Fairytale," part of the inter-museum project Chumazkiy shah dedicated to history and image of Crimea and Crimean Tatars.
Other projects of the author can also be highlighted:
— Historical expertise for Canada's Ukrainian Dancers "Shumka," 2017.
— Exhibition "25 Years of Ukraine's Independence." National Museum of Ukrainian History, August 23 - September 20, 2016. Curator of visual part.
— Installation commemorating the Heavenly Hundred. National Museum of Ukrainian History, February 18-20, 2016. Curator.
— Exhibition "Qırımtatar Bayrağı" dedicated to the Crimean Tatars' Flag Day. National Museum of Ukrainian History, June–July 2015. Curator.
— Exhibition "Hatira Albomi" dedicated to the anniversary of the deportation of Crimean Tatars. National Museum of Ukrainian History, May 17–June 20, 2015. Curator.
Kisly, Martin-Oleksandr, and Sviezhentsev, Maksym. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 65:2, 232-244. “Deoccupation Or (De-)Colonization? Challenges for Crimea’s Future.” Kisly, Martin-Oleksandr, and Sviezhentsev, Maksym. Canadian Slavonic Papers, 65:2, 232-244.
Role: Author