Tetiana Vodotyka

Biography

Academic Director of the Master’s program in Urban Studies and Postwar Reconstruction. She was born in Kherson. She studied history at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and holds a master’s degree in history with honors. She completed her postgraduate studies at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, earning her PhD in history (2014). Her dissertation topic is entrepreneurship in Ukrainian cities in the nineteenth century.

In 2016, she and her friends founded the peer-reviewed journal City: History, Culture, Society (mics.org.ua) and have been its editor-in-chief ever since. 

She has been a guest researcher at the University of Göttingen, Germany (2022-2023) and the University of Durham, UK (2023-2025).

Author of several non-fiction books on the history of Ukrainian cities and the history of Ukrainian business.

2023 Challenge. Opportunity. Change. The history of Ukrainian entrepreneurship. 

2022 The history of everyday life. Kyiv. The beginning of the twentieth century. 

2020 Success stories. Prominent Ukrainian businessmen of the nineteenth century. 

2019 Ukrainians in the armies of the world. 

2019 Honorary Citizens of Kyiv. 1872-1914. (The publication received the Book of the Year 2019 award in the Business Card nomination)

2018 Space of Opportunities. Ukraine in the Age of Iron and Steel. (The publication was shortlisted for the Book of the Year 2018)

Columnist for Forbes.ua, tyzhden.ua, and other Ukrainian media.