Andriy Kohut

Andriy Kohut is the director of the Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Stuart Ramsey Tompkins Visiting Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (2025/26), University of Alberta. He holds a PhD in history from the Kyiv Shevchenko National University and an MA in history from the Lviv Franko National University. In 2022, he suspended his Fulbright Fellowship at Stanford University following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Kohut has published numerous scholarly and popular articles and edited several collections of documents from declassified KGB archives. His research interests include Soviet deportations, the Holodomor, history of the Communist regime's secret services, memory politics, and cultural diplomacy.