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Andrej Kotliartchouk is a Professor at the Department of History, Uppsala University. He defended his PhD in 2006 at Stockholm University and currently leads the project Witnessing for the future. Holocaust, Sweden and Forgotten Early Testimonies funded by the Swedish Research Council.
Education:
- PhD, Stockholm University (2006)
Research Interests:
Kotliartchouk’s research centers on ethnic minorities, mass violence, and the memory of World War II, with a particular focus on the Nazi genocide of Roma. His work explores how marginalized narratives—especially those of Roma and Jewish survivors—are shaped by national and transnational memory ecologies.
He is currently investigating early testimonies of Roma genocide survivors in Sweden as part of a broader project that includes the study of Yiddish literary sources and public reception of minority narratives in Sweden.
Grants & Projects:
- Principal Investigator, Witnessing for the future. Holocaust, Sweden and Forgotten Early Testimonies (Swedish Research Council)
- Project Leader, Memory Politics in Far-Right Europe (2018–2023, Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies)
Publications:
His recent publications span from Stalinist terror against minorities to far-right digital memory work in Eastern Europe. He has also contributed to encyclopaedias and co-edited volumes on Holocaust memory and post-Soviet identity politics.
Collaborations:
Kotliartchouk collaborates with scholars such as Karin Kvist Geverts and Simo Muir on interdisciplinary Holocaust and memory studies projects, often integrating archival research with theoretical frameworks from memory studies and digital humanities.
