Ost­ap Sere­da recei­ved his PhD in com­pa­ra­ti­ve histo­ry from Cen­tral Euro­pean Uni­ver­si­ty in 2003. Sin­ce 2015 he has been tea­ching modern histo­ry at the Ukrai­ni­an Catho­lic Uni­ver­si­ty in L’viv. He has been a visi­ting pro­fes­sor at CEU sin­ce 2012, and at Bard Col­lege Ber­lin sin­ce 2024. He has also held fel­low­ships at the Euro­pean Uni­ver­si­ty Insti­tu­te, Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty, and Imre Ker­té­sz Kol­leg Jena. In March 2022, Sere­da beca­me the pro­gram direc­tor of the aca­de­mic pro­ject Invi­si­ble Uni­ver­si­ty for Ukrai­ne. His rese­arch focu­ses on 19th-cen­tu­ry Ukrai­ni­an histo­ry, cul­tu­ral poli­tics, and the histo­ry of Ukrai­ni­an stu­dies, and he co‑authored The Intellec­tu­al Foun­da­ti­ons of Modern Ukrai­ne (Rout­ledge, 2023).