Vitaliy Bovar

Vitaliy Bovar is a Master’s student at the European University at St. Petersburg. After earning a graduate degree in Medieval European history from St. Petersburg State University, he changed fields to focus on the history of Russian and European psychiatry. Specifically, he examines the construction of asylums and mental hospitals, investigating the professionalization of Russian psychiatrists as well as the transference of scientific ideas across Europe in the second half of the 19th century.