Yevhen Minko is a doctoral researcher in Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His areas of expertise include the psychological dimensions of the Holocaust, Soviet antisemitism, disinformation, and non-military warfare.
Since 2024, Yevhen has been working on a project examining state-sponsored Soviet and post-Soviet antisemitic campaigns within the framework of security studies. The research—titled Rootless Cosmopolitans, Space Lizards, and Heavenly Jerusalemites—has been supported by the Central European University and the Finnish National Agency for Education.
Yevhen received his MA with honors in History and Archaeology / Jewish Studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) in 2023. His master’s thesis, conducted at the intersection of history and psychoanalysis and supported by the Vaad of Ukraine,
explored Jewish dreams from the times of the Holocaust and Stalinist repression. During the preparation of this project, Yevhen was selected by the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles to serve as a visiting graduate researcher in 2022–23. During his stay at UCLA, he worked with the archives of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, the USC Shoah Foundation, and the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University to advance his research.
Yevhen also received advanced training in psychoanalysis at the International Institute of Depth Psychology in Kyiv between 2015 and 2018.
Before his engagement in Jewish studies research, Yevhen had an extensive career in journalism and book publishing. Between 2007 and 2010, he served as editor-in-chief of Telekrytyka magazine, a pioneering Ukrainian publication addressing issues of press freedom, media ethics, and disinformation. He has authored six fiction and non-fiction books that explore themes of conspiracism, cognitive manipulation, and the instrumentalization of history. His latest published work, Parrhesia (2021), is a collection of essays on the histories and enduring legacies of totalitarian regimes (primarily the USSR), examining state-sponsored propaganda and political indoctrination through culture.