Vladyslav Havrylov
Collaborative on Global Children's Issues
Vladyslav Havrylov is a Ukrainian historian and religious scholar based in Kyiv. His research interests include the history of mass deportations in the Soviet era, state-confessional relations, the policy of the Catholic Church during World War II, and the role of Christian clergy in the Holocaust. Havrylov is pursuing doctoral work on Vatican policy during World War II and works with the Institute of World History at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where he specializes in the history of international religious relations in the twentieth century and the study of genocide and war crimes in Europe.
Havrylov is an analyst at the Media Initiative for Human Rights, where he focuses on reporting on crimes committed against prisoners of war and civilian detainees on the Russian Federation's territory. He is also an invited expert with the Ukrainian charitable foundation East-SOS, where he works to document Russian war crimes against Ukrainian children in the aftermath of the full-scale Russian invasion. He further serves as an adviser to the child deportation investigative task force at Osint for Ukraine.
Havrylov is a 2024-2025 collaborative fellow with the Collaborative on Global Children's Issues at Georgetown University, where he was previously a 2023-2024 research fellow; his work has focused on the forcible transfer, deportation, adoption, and reeducation of Ukrainian children by Russia.
- Researcher with Where Are Our People?, an initiative tracking Ukrainians forcibly deported by Russia, from December 2022 to June 2024.
- Participated in a virtual research scholar program in 2022 at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Graduated from Orthodox Seminary in 2014 and received a master's degree in religious studies from the National Pedagogical Dragomanov University and in history from Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv.
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