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New Book Release: Indigenous Christianity: Missionaries, Modernity, and Marginality in the Siberian Tundra
Introducing HIDE’s new work Indigenous Christianity: Missionaries, Modernity, and Marginality in the Siberian Tundra by Tatiana Vagramenko. This book extends the scope of the History Declassified project by adding a deeply ethnographic dimension, tracing the origins and social foundations of Putin’s regime in one of the world’s most remote regions. This book traces the story of a Nenets indigenous…
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HIDE Leads UCC’s Joining the Global Coalition for Ukrainian Studies
Thanks to the vision and leadership of the HIDE team, University College Cork (UCC) has joined the Global Coalition for Ukrainian Studies, becoming one of the first Irish institutions committed to embedding Ukrainian history, politics, society, language, and culture into research and teaching. From the initial application to coordinating the partnership and the visit of…
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Religious Heritage Innovator of the Year Award
The HIDE project was awarded Religious Heritage Innovator of the Year by Future for Religious Heritage (a network supported by the European Commission’s Creative Europe Programme) for our initiative Saving Ukraine’s Religious Heritage: Digitization and Preservation of Endangered Minority Archives.
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New Book Release: The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR
We are excited to announce the release of “The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents: Religion and Police Surveillance in the USSR,” edited by Tatiana Vagramenko and Nadezhda Beliakova. Published by Lexington Books in 2025, this book is one of the key outcomes of the HIDE Project. The Lives of Soviet Secret Agents explores the covert world…
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HIDE Awarded Impact Case Study Narrative Prize
HIDE received the Impact Case Study Narrative Prize, recognizing its important role in preserving endangered archives and advancing digital conservation efforts that address urgent societal and historical challenges.
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Awarded UCLA Library Funding for Modern Endangered Archives
HIDE has been awarded funding by the UCLA Library under the Modern Endangered Archives Programme for the initiative “Saving Vulnerable Past in Wartime: Local Archives in Bucha, Ukraine.” This pilot project focuses on rescuing and preparing for digitization two community archives in Bucha: the Adventist Archive-Museum and the Makariv Archive.
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Best Early-Career Researcher of the Year Award
HIDE Project Principal Investigator, Dr. Tatiana Vagramenko, has been honored with the Best Early-Career Researcher of the Year Award at University College Cork.
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Book Launch: Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War Against Ukraine
Principal Investigator Dr. Tatiana Vagramenko participated in the book launch for Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War Against Ukraine, edited by Catherine Wanner (Routledge, 2023). The event was organised by Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University and available online. Vagramenko’s contribution to the book, titled “Faith and war: Grassroots Ukrainian Protestantism in the context of the…
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Call for Technical Assistant
Part-time position on the project “Religious minorities archives and the war in Ukraine: The Adventist Historical Archive-Museum in Bucha” funded by the British Library Endangered Archives Program, project No EAP1511. Ukrainian version below Call for expression of interest University College Cork invites expressions of interest for a position of a part-time technical assistant in the…
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Podcast Interview on “Secret Police Archives as Depositories of Faith”
HIDE: History Declassified 