Vladyslava Moskalets is Associate Professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and researcher at the Center for Urban History (Lviv). Vladyslava Moskalets studies Jewish social history, focusing on issues of elite transition, intercultural relations, social mobility in 19th-century Habsburg Galicia, Yiddish reportage literature. She is currently working on the book “Jewish Industrial Elites in Drohobych and Borislav, 1860-1900” and is conducting a research project on the urban elites of Lviv in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
Vladyslava teaches courses on Jewish social history, history of migration, history of Ukraine in the long 19th century, and Hebrew language. She is an active public historian, publishing popular articles and blogs in Ukrainian media.
In 2013-2017 Vladyslava Moskalets studied in the joint doctoral program of UCU and the Institute of Jewish Studies of the Jagiellonian University (Krakow) and received a Ph.D. in history from the Jagiellonian University in 2017. Vladyslava was an external collegiate at the Doctoral Program Galizien (University of Vienna) in 2013-2016. Fellow of the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations (March-May 2016). Fulbright Scholar (2018-2019), Northwestern University, Chicago. During the spring semester of 2023, she was a visiting lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, teaching Ukrainian history. She received the Maier Balaban Award from the Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw) for the best dissertation in 2018.