„Biohistoriographical” Dissertations in Ukraine since Independence. A Quantitative Approach
„Biohistoriograficzne” prace naukowe na Ukrainie od czasów odzyskania niepodległości. Ujęcie ilościowe

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is discovering how the new demands for modernization of the biographical discourse after biographical turn are met and realized in the current Ukrainian biographical research. The author will approach this through looking at avtoreferats (abstracts) of dissertations on biographical topics that have been defended in Ukraine in the past thirty years. The present work is based on quantitative methods. It draws on the analysis of a relational database of historiographical dissertations defended over the period from 1991 to 2020, built in Microsoft Access. Analysis of the database provides an opportunity to answer a number of new research questions: about the dynamics of biographical dissertation writing and defense over time, circle of humanities scholars whose life and activities have been the subject of dissertation-level historiographical studies in recent decades, methodological foundations of biographical studies (special methodological concepts and tools) on the basis of classification of dissertations in biographical studies, finally, the database also allows us to analyze the authors of biographical dissertations as a group and detect the existence of research communities (academic schools) in the field of biographical studies.

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