Projects Funded

The projects listed below have been supported by Documenting Ukraine. This is not a complete list; other grantees have opted not to publish information about their projects, and new projects are being added to the site on an ongoing basis.

Project	Grantee
Queues in Kyiv	Dmytro Levytskyi
Research on the culture of queuing in post-invasion Kyiv that reframes and builds on Leo Mann’s theorising of the queue as a social system
Study Course: ‘Weaponization of Health Care: Ontological, Historical, Biopolitical, Ethical, Organizational Aspects’	Natalya Mykhalko
Creating educational materials for postgraduate healthcare professionals who wish to investigate the weaponization of healthcare in war
Symbolic Space of Russian Military Aggression against Ukraine: From Symbols and Emblems to Symbolic and Ritual Practices	Yevhen Rachkov
Applying Barthesian and Baudrillardian theories of communication and symbol exchange to the slogans and emblems of the 2022 War.
The Autopsy of War: Finding, Identifying and Grieving for the Missing Soldiers	Hanna Dosenko
Exploring the role of forensic experts in Dnipro, documenting war crimes and identifying unknown soldiers from the Russian-Ukrainian war
The Heritage Preservation Community and Its Transformations During Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine	Kseniia Paltsun
Project on war-related changes in Ukraine’s heritage preservation community and the resulting societal responses and initiatives
The Language of Walls: Informal Communication in Public Spaces During Times of Crisis	Anton Hauk
Analyzing informal communication through graphic manifestations in public spaces, including graffiti, inscriptions, stickers, stencils, and other visual forms
The Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Eyes of Ukrainians	Anna Osypchuk
A project to analyze and understand the dehumanization of the Russian military, people and elites as Ukrainians respond to the full-scale invasion
The War Spoke to Us Loudly Through Explosions and Quietly Through Things	Alisa Demina
Analyzing the impact of war on Ukrainian material culture and social spaces, creating a database of war memorials in the Kyiv region
Ukrainian Architectural Heritage under Russian Threat	Ievgeniia Gubkina
Drawing attention to the destruction of Ukraine’s architectural heritage with evidence of Russia’s war as reflected in the built environment
Ukrainian Visual Arts in the Time of War: Paintings and Posters in 2022–2024	Tetiana Kovalenko
Analysis of Ukrainian war paintings and posters exhibited in Ukraine or abroad and those widely shared on the web
Vilcha: A Short History of Double Displacement	Viktoria Naumenko
Documenting the experience of Ukrainian citizens who have been forcibly displaced twice—from the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and Vilcha, a village in the Kharkiv region
Visuality of Violence during the Russo-Ukrainian War	Lesia Kulchynska
Project on the function of digital media environments during the war and their impact on the operation of war-related imagery

Civil Society
Daily Life
Destruction & Reconstruction
Displacement
Environment
Health
Heritage
Human Rights
Identity & Culture
Information & Disinformation
Language & Symbols
Memory
Military
Occupation & Atrocity
Public Opinion
Religion
Resilience & Solidarity
Rural
Science & Education
Trauma & Rehabilitation
Urban
Vulnerable Groups
Women