Name Oleg Kozerod | Role Journalist | |
Education V. N. Karazin Kharkov National University | ||
Oleh Joshua Kozerod (Kazirod) (born 1970) is a political scientist, history researcher and Doctor of Letters. He came from a Polish-Ukrainian aristocratic family bearing the Zadora coat of arms whose go back to the twelfth century.
Dr Kozerod was born in Ukraine, and has become a journalist and writer. For many years he worked as a European reporter for several news agencies, including the World Jewish News Agency. Kozerod graduated from Kharkiv University in 1993. Since 2000, he is a D.Litt. candidate at the Institute of Political and Ethno-national Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since 2002 - publisher of Achievements Russian newspaper. Since 2001, he is a visiting Fellow and Scholar at the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Visiting VWS Fellow The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam (2007) and since 2008, a Academic Visitor at the European Humanities Research Center (University of Oxford). Since 2003 - Fellow of Kuras Institute of Political and Ethno-national Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Dr Kozerod is an author of hundreds of scientific and op-ed articles, and several monographs, including:
Dr Kozerod is an expert in the history of Ukraine, in the field of contemporary policy and national security of Great Britain and the European Union, including the history of the 20th century, terrorism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and interethnic relations. In 1996, he defended a Ph.D thesis on historiography of the White Movement in Ukraine. In 2009, Kozerod defended a D.Litt. thesis on the history of Ukrainian Jewry.
He is a member of numerous public and professional international organizations, including the European Association for Jewish Studies, Royal Historical Society and Oxford University Alumni Society.