Andriy Portnov is a historian and a specialist in the intellectual history of Eastern Europe in the nineteenth-twentieth centuries. He has studied history in Dnipropetrovsk, Warsaw, and Lviv. Since 2007 he has been the chief editor of the journal "Ukraina Moderna," turning under his direction into one of the best publications in the field and probably the most innovative in Ukraine. He is also the author of over 100 scholarly publications in such periodicals as "Krytyka," "AbImperio," "Osteuropa," "Belaruski Gistarychny Agliad" and "Otechestvennie zapiski." He is currently writing books on the history of Ukrainian historiography in the twentieth century and on the politics of memory in post-Soviet Ukraine.