Dr Tetyana Pavlush

Overview

I specialise in 20th century European history with a primary focus on Germany and an expanding interest in the post-Soviet studies. Before joining the History Department at Cardiff University in October 2019 as Lecturer in Modern German history, I taught Modern European history at the University of Stirling. I received my PhD in Modern European history at the Free University of Berlin in 2014.

My research deals with different aspects of collective memory, national identity and the politics of history in the German-German and broader European context. The Second World War in German and European memory, the history and memory of the Holocaust, Christian-Jewish encounters, and the role of history in the process of post-totalitarian transformation are among my research and teaching priorities.

My current research project addresses the transformation of public memory of the Holocaust in two European countries from different sides of the ‘Iron Curtain’ – Austria and Ukraine – before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

My book ‘Kirche nach Auschwitz’ (Churches after Auschwitz) was published in 2015. This is a comparative study on how the Holocaust and its legacy were addressed between 1945 and 1990 by Protestant churches in two German states: the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR.

Through my affiliation with the Berlin School for Comparative European History during my doctoral studies I developed an interest in the theory and praxis of historical comparison and other methodological approaches used in the context of comparative history, transfer studies and connected or shared history. Since then I am passionate in applying them in my research and in my teaching.

I studied history, worked in academia and in the political and civic education sector in the UK, Ukraine, the Czech Republic and Germany. I am fluent in Ukrainian, English, German, Czech and Russian.

Publications

Pavlush T. (2022). ‘Leninopad’: Coming to Terms with the Past in Post-Soviet Ukraine. In: Marion Löffler (ed.), Berlin Wall Falls. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Pavlush, T. (2015). Kirche nach Auschwitz zwischen Theologie und Vergangenheitspolitik. (Church after Auschwitz: Dealing with the Nazi Past between Theology and Memory Politics). Frankfurt/M: Peter Lang.

Reviews on the book 'Kirche nach Auschwitz'

Barnett, V.J. (2016). Contemporary Church History Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, June 1.

https://contemporarychurchhistory.org/2016/06/review-of-tetyana-pavlush-kirche-nach-auschwitz-zwischen-theologie-und-vergangenheitspolitik/

Blum, M. (2016). Freiburger Rundbrief. Zeitschrift für christlich-jüdische Begegnung, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 61-63 http://freiburger-rundbrief.de/de/?item=1466

Brunner, B. (2016). H-Soz-Kult https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-24781

Staffa, C. (2016). Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin https://www.eaberlin.de/nachlese/chronologisch-nach-jahren/2016/rezensionkirche-nach-auschwitz/

Pavlush, T. (2011). Die Auseinandersetzung der evangelischen Kirchen mit dem Eichmann-Prozess in der Bundesrepublik und in der DDR. Vergleich und Verflechtung in der deutsch-deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte (German Protestants and the Eichmann Trial: Comparison and Entanglement in the Contemporary German History). In: A. Arndt, ed., Vergleichen, Verflechten, Verwirren? Europäische Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Theorie und Praxis, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pp. 115-139.

Pavlush, T. (2006). Církev a náboženství v nacionálním socialismu – České země 1938/39-1945. Český časopis historický, vol. 14, pp. 713-714.

Pavlush, T. (2005). Die Beichte der Kirche. Die Reflexion der deutschen Kirchen über ihre Rolle im NS-Deutschland, Rozvoj ceské spolecnosti v Evropské unii, Praha, 298-309.