Institute Faculty and Staff

Kostyantyn Bondarenko
Information Technology Specialist (since 2001)
B.A., English and German languages, Kirovohrad Teachers' Training Institute (1991)
After receiving his BA in English and German languages, Kostyantyn Bondarenko worked as an English teacher, translator, and interpreter. He attended the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Webster University in Geneva, and Harvard University in Cambridge. While working at Harvard University, he became interested in information technology, which he now manages at the Institute. His work comprises website development, database management, software/hardware maintenance, and network support.

Volodymyr Dibrova

Volodymyr Dibrova has served as head of the English department at Kyiv Mohyla Academy (1992-1993), taught English and world literature at Kyiv Linguistic University (1977-1989), served as an associate at Shevchenko Institute of Literature (1989-1992), and worked as a translator (1973-1977). He is a literary critic who writes on Ukrainian, French, and American literature, and who has translated works by Henry David Thoreau, Eugene Ionesco, and Samuel Beckett. His translation Samuel Beckett's novel Watt won the Mykola Lukash Award for translation. He is, foremost, a writer whose stories have been translated into English, Polish, Hungarian, German, and Belarusian.

Selected Works:

• "Project Dibrova" (Chetver no 14, 2002),
• Vybhane (2002),
• Get-Togethers (1999),
• Burdyk (1998),
• Peltse and Pentameron (1996)

Michael S. Flier
Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University (since 1991)
Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (since 2004)
BA, MA, PhD, Slavic languages and literatures, University of California, Berkley, (1968)

After receiving his PhD, Michael S. Flier taught for twenty-two years at UCLA before coming to Harvard in 1991. His two major areas of research are Slavic linguistics, especially the history and structure of East Slavic languages, and the semiotics of medieval East Slavic culture. In his work on East Slavic, he has often used data from Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian dialects, together with evidence from written texts, to discover the sources of change in the sound systems and inflectional forms of East Slavic languages. He is currently engaged in a project to describe and analyze Ukrainian Surzhyk, the ubiquitous Ukrainian-Russian hybrid found in oral speech, on radio and television, and in certain genres of literature and music. On the nonlinguistic front, he is writing a monograph on the symbolism of the Apocalypse in the culture of medieval Rus´.
He regularly teaches Old Church Slavonic, comparative Slavic linguistics, and an undergraduate (Core) course on medieval East Slavic art, architecture, ritual, literature, and history. His graduate-level courses include the structure of Ukrainian, an introduction to East Slavic Linguistics, the language of Novgorod, Ukraine as a linguistic battleground between the Ukrainian and Russian languages, and a seminar in East Slavic culture.
He has written and edited thirteen books and over eighty articles and reviews on a wide range of topics in Slavic linguistics and medieval culture, including:

• Aspects of Nominal Determination in Old Church Slavic (The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1974)
• American Contributions to the Ninth International Congress of Slavists, Kiev, September, 1983. Vol. 1: Linguistics. Columbus: Slavica, 1983)
• Medieval Russian Culture, II. California Slavic Studies, vol. 19 , edited with Daniel Rowland (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994)
• Ukrainian Philology and Linguistics (Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1994 [= Harvard Ukrainian Studies 18, nos. 1-2])
• "Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Ukrainian Phoneme j in Context." Mir Curad: Studies in Honor of Calvert Watkins, ed. Jay Jasanoff, H. Craig Melchert, and Lisi Oliver, pp. 101-114 (Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1998)
• "Surzhyk: The Rules of Engagement," in Cultures and Nations of Central and Eastern Europe: Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk, ed. Zvi Gitelman et al., pp. 113-36 (Cambridge: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2000 [= Harvard Ukrainian Studies 22 (1998)])
• "The Monomakh Throne: Ivan the Terrible and the Architectonics of Destiny," in Architectures of Russian Identity, 1500-Present, ed. James Cracraft and Daniel Rowland, pp. 21-33, 216-18 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003)
• "Innovation in the East Slavic Non-Past: The Case of Belarusian First-Person Plural idom," American Contributions to the Thirteenth International Congress of Slavists, Ljubljana, 2003, vol. 1: Linguistics, ed. Alan Timberlake, pp. 65-77 (Bloomington: Slavica, 2003)

George G. Grabowicz

Professional Profile:
George Grabowicz has served as chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard (1983-88) and as director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (1989-96). He was president and one of the founders of the International Association for Ukrainian Studies and chairman of the American Committee of Slavists. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian monthly Krytyka. In the mid 1980s, Grabowicz was one of the first academics to organize scholarly exchanges with Ukraine. Since then he has continued in his efforts to stimulate-through conferences and symposia, joint publications, and his own writing-openness to new theoretical and critical thinking in the humanities in Ukraine.

He has written on Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian literature and on literary theory, reflecting his current interests in Ukrainian literature, Russian-Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian literary relations, literary theory (especially reception theory), romanticism, the Baroque, the interrelation of literature and society, and the symbolism and semiotics of culture.

Selected Works:

• Toward a History of Ukrainian Literature (1981)
• The Poet as Mythmaker: A Study of Symbolic Meaning in Taras Shevchenko (1982)
• In Search of a Great Literature (in Ukrainian, 1993)
• Do istorii ukraiinskoi literatury (1997)
• Poet jak mifotvorets (1998)
• Shevchenko, iakoho ne znaiemo ["The Unknown Shevchenko"] (in Ukrainian, 2000).

Current Projects:
The Reception of Shevchenko; ethnicity and populism in modern Ukrainian Literature; Russian-Ukrainian literary relations in the nineteenth century.

Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (since 1992)
BA (Boston College, History, 1966); PhD (Harvard, History and Middle Eastern Studies, 1984)

Research Interests: early modern Ukrainian history, Ukrainian-Turkish relations, cultural history, contemporary Ukraine

Current project: Ukrainian themes in Western opera

Selected Publications:

• Zvi Gitelman, Lubomyr Hajda, John-Paul Himka, and Roman Solchanyk, eds., Cultures and Nations in Eastern and Central Europe: Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk (Cambridge: HURI, 2000)
• Editor, Ukraine in the World (Cambridge: HURI, 1998)
• Editor with Mark Beissinger, The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society (Boulder: Westview, 1990)
• "Taras Bulba on the Pampas and the Fjords: A Ukrainian Cossack Theme in Western Opera," in Lubomyr Hajda et al., eds., Cultures and Nations in Eastern and Central Europe: Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk
• "Ethnic Politics and Ethnic Conflict in the USSR and the Post-Soviet States," Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 19.2 (1993)
• "Ukraine: History," Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed. (1993)
• "Nationalism and Reform in Soviet Politics," (with Mark Beissinger), in Lubomyr Hajda and Mark Beissinger, eds., The Nationalities Factor in Soviet Politics and Society
• "Nationalities Problem in the Soviet Union," Current History, October 1988
• "Nationality and Age in Soviet Population Change," Soviet Studies 32, no. 4 (1980).
  

Tymish J. Holowinsky
Executive Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (since 2001)
A.B., Comparative Literature, Brown University (1983); J.D. Suffolk University Law School (1989)

After receiving his law degree, Tymish J. Holowinsky held the position of Assistant Director in Harvard University's Office for Sponsored Research where he worked for six years. In 1996, he took on the position of Research Grants and Contracts Manager in Harvard's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Since the Summer of 2001, he has held the position of Executive Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute.
As Executive Director, he is responsible for the Institute's programmatic, financial, and personnel operations. He also represents the Institute in all administrative interactions within Harvard University and the outside community.

Roman Szporluk

Roman Szporluk specializes in modern Ukrainian history, Ukrainian-Polish and Ukrainian-Russianrelations, nationalism and Marxism in Central and Eastern Europe. He is currently engaged in the writing of a major book entitled The Emergence of Modern Ukraine: A History and an Interpretation.

Selected Publications:

• Imperium, komunizm i narody: Wybor esejow (Cracow, 2003).
• Imperiia ta natsii (Kyiv, 2001).
• Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union (Stanford University Press, 2000)
• Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx versus Friedrich List (New York and Oxford, 1991)
• Ukraine: A Brief History (Detroit, 1982)
• The Political Thought of Thomas G. Masaryk (Boulder CO 1980)

Edited Volumes:

• Russia in World History: Selected Writings of M. N. Pokrovsky (Ann Arbor 1970)
• The Influence of Eastern Europe and the Soviet West on the USSR (Washington and London 1976)
• National Identity and Ethnicity in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (Armonk, NY 1994)

For more information and full list of Szporluk's publications see: Zvi Gitelman et al., eds., Cultures and Nations of central and Eastern Europe: Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2000.

Marika Whaley

MA, Russian literature and linguistics, The Ohio State University (1994); PhD, Slavic Linguistics, The Ohio State University (2000)
Marika Whaley's areas of interest include philology, historical morphology, and graphic design.

Book projects in progress:

• Leonard Friesen, "Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine: Peasants, Nobles, and Colonists, 1774-1905"
• Horace G. Lunt's translation of the Povest' vremennykh let
  
• Gwendolyn Sasse, "The Dynamics of Conflict Prevention: Crimea and Ukraine"
• Andrei Pliguzov, Documentary Sources for the History of the Rus' Metropolitanat