Yana Prymachenko specializes in Ukrainian history and culture, Soviet history, the Second World War, the culture of memory in Ukraine and Russia, and the Russo-Ukrainian War. Yana Prymachenko is a Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University. A native of Ukraine, she earned her Ph.D. from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and served as a Senior Research Scholar at the Institute of History of Ukraine from 2003 to 2022. Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she joined Princeton University as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History in 2022. She subsequently served as a Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton before joining Columbia University. Her research focuses on Soviet history, the Second World War, memory culture in Russia and Eastern Europe, and Ukrainian narratives of resilience during the Russo-Ukrainian War. She is the author and co-author of ten books on Ukrainian history. Since 2024, she has been a participant in the Ukrainian History Global Initiative, where her research focuses on Soviet terror.