University of Helsinki
In September 2022, the Academy of Finland made funding available to attach Ukrainian scholars to ongoing research projects in Finland. Judith Pallot and Brendan Humphreys secured funding from this call. Under this programme, we have been able to invite Mykhailo Romanov to be attached to GULAGECHOES and the Yugoslavian Prison Nationalism projects in the Aleksanteri Institute. Under current Ukrainian regulations, Mykhailo will be able to join us in person for only one month and otherwise will be contributing to both projects remotely.
Mykhailo is a scholar of penitentiary law and a prisoners’ rights activist. He is an Associate Professor at the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University and at the Poltava University of Economics and Trade. He has PhD in Penal Law from the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University and is an author of over forty scientific publications including four monographs and two co-authored books. He is also a penitentiary expert for the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) and a temporary member of the working group on drafting the law on penitentiary system in Ukraine.