Oksana Pasitska holds a PhD of historical sciences from the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of National Academy of Ukraine (2020). Her doctoral thesis deals with the ethnic, social and economic aspects of Galicia at the end of XIX – first third XX century. Her wider research interests include the problems of ethnic identity of people who lived on ethnic Ukrainian territory. She is the author of two monographs and numerous articles on these topics. In cooperation with the ‘Non-Territorial Autonomy’ team she investigates the problems of cooperation os the Greek Catholic Church (Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky) with the Ukrainian diaspora in Austria in connection with non-territorial autonomy provisions.