Ph. D, specializes in oral history. After defending her PhD thesis about everyday life in Western Belarus after World War II at Freie Universität in Berlin, she founded a Minsk-based Belarusian Oral History Archive. The archive, nashapamiac.org, collects interviews and promotes a methodology for conducting and recording oral history interviews. She has organized several expeditions to rural areas in western Belarus, where elderly individuals were interviewed about their twentieth century experiences. Dr. Kashtalian has been working at Geschichtswerkstatt IBB in Minsk since February 2016.