LivArch Fellow Aliesia Soloviova

From 15 October to 15 December 2025,the ‘Contemporary History of Luxembourg‘ (LHI) research group has the pleasure of welcoming Aliesia Soloviova as a LivArch Fellow.

Aliesia Soloviova holds a PhD in History and a Master’s degree in Data Science. She is currently conducting her research at the European University Institute in Florence, where she examines family and gender dynamics in Soviet Ukraine and explores how ideology, moral discourse, and social policy shaped marriage, motherhood, and sexuality during the post-war decades.

Her work integrates historical inquiry with computational analysis, applying database design, statistical modelling, and interactive visualization to large-scale archival datasets. At the European University Institute, she developed an interactive database and mapping platform using PostgreSQL, Python, and web-based visualization tools to analyse regional and occupational patterns among women awarded Soviet maternal honours.

She has also been a research fellow at Columbia University (New York), where she presented her approach to data visualization and led a hands-on workshop titled “Building Historical Databases: From Archival Sources to Interactive Maps.”

Her broader research interests include Soviet social history, gender studies, and the intersection of data science and the humanities, with a particular emphasis on ethical data curation and digital archival practices.