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Shklar Fellows
2001–2002
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Laada Bilaniuk, Anthropologist.
Bilaniuk is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University
of Washington, where she teaches courses on anthropological linguistics,
the anthropology of communication, and the politics and culture of
language. Her fieldwork has included investigation of the language
dynamics in post-Soviet Ukraine. In addition to her many scholarly
articles in English and Ukrainian, Bilaniuk is the co-editor, with
Kathryn Lyon and Ben Fitzhugh, of Post-Soviet Eurasia: Anthropological
Perspectives on a World in Transition (Ann Arbor, MI, 1996). While
at HURI, she will be completing a book on the politics of language
and identity in Ukraine. |
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Oleksandr Halenko, Historian. Halenko
is a senior researcher at the Institute for Political and Ethnic Studies
of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and an assistant professor
of History at the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. His research
has focused on the northern Black Sea region under Ottoman and Tatar
administration in the early modern period, and he has taught courses
on Balkan History, the Crimean Khanate, and Ukraine and the Ottoman
Empire. In addition to his many journal publications, he is the translator
into Ukrainian of Halil Inalcik’s The Ottoman Empire: The Classical
Age, 1300–1600 (Kyiv and Lviv, 1996). While at HURI, Halenko
will be working on a monograph on political, economic, demographic
and social aspects of the northern Black Sea Ottoman province of Kefe
in the sixteenth century. |
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Aleksandra Hnatiuk, Slavicist.
Hnatiuk is an associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures
at the University of Warsaw. Her publications include books and articles
on topics such as Ukrainian baroque hymnal traditions, Ukrainian-Polish
literary connections, and the geopolitics of Ukrainian literature.
She has also been the editor or translator of several collections
of Ukrainian poetry and Ukrainian scholarly articles into Polish.
While at HURI, Hnatiuk will be completing a book on the transformation
of Ukrainian cultural identity in the twentieth century—particularly
attitudes towards cultural modernization and Europeanization—as
seen through literature. |
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Tamara Hundorova, Slavicist. Hundorova
is a principal research fellow at the Institute of Literature of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 1998–1999, she was
a Fulbright Scholar at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University,
and in 1999–2000, a visiting professor of Slavic Literature at
the University of Toronto. She has published many articles on Ukrainian
modernism and postmodernism. Her most recent book is The Emergence
of the Word: The Discourse of Early Ukrainian Modernism: Postmodern
Interpretations (Lviv, 1997). While at HURI, Hundorova will be working
on a monograph on Ukrainian literary postmodernism, utilizing the
concept of the “Chornobyl text.” |
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Volodymyr Kravchenko, Historian.
Kravchenko is the chair of Ukrainian Studies at Kharkiv National University.
He specializes in modern Ukrainian historiography and in the history
of Kharkiv and the region of Slobids’ka Ukraina. He has authored
and edited several monographs on modern Ukrainian historiography,
most notably on the role of the historian Dmytro Bahalii (1857–1932).
Kravchenko is also the editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian scholarly
journal East-West. While at HURI, Kravchenko will be working on a
study of the identity and character of Slobids’ka Ukraina, and
the region’s role in Ukrainian nation-building, from approximately
1750 to 1850. |
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Volodymyr Kulyk, Political Scientist.
Kulyk is a research fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic
Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He has been
a research fellow at the OSCE Research Center at the University of
Hamburg, served on the editorial boards of the Ukrainian newspaper
Den’ and the journal Suchasnist’, and taught comparative
political science at the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Among
his published works is the book Ukrainian Nationalism in Independent
Ukraine (Kyiv, 1999). While at HURI, Kulyk will be working on an analysis
of the transformation of the idea of the Ukrainian state among political
élites—both dissident activists and party nomenklatura—in
the late Soviet period (1986–1991). |
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Stephen Shulman, Political Scientist.
Shulman is an assistant professor of Political Science at Southern
Illinois University, where he teaches courses on international relations,
comparative politics, political methodology, and ethnicity and nationalism.
His many published articles deal with the interaction of politics
with nation-building and national identity issues in Ukraine, Russia
and Eastern Europe. Among his current research projects is an exploration
into the evolution of civic nationalism, with Taras Kuzio. While at
HURI, Shulman will be doing research for his book on the sources of,
and obstacles to, nation-building in Ukraine, with particular regard
to the goals of autonomy, unity and identity in the nation-building
process. |
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