The second group of Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellows in Ukrainian
Studies (2002-2003), started its tenure at the Institute in June,
2002 with the arrival of Dr.Henry Abramson, from Florida Atlantic
University, who spent two months concluding research on a bibliography
of Jews in Ukraine. Throughout the course of the academic year
a total of ten scholars will be in residence at the Institute conducting
research in Ukrainian and related areas of study. They are: Henry
Abramson (citizen of Canada), Guido Hausmann and Alexander Kratochvil
(Germany),Victoria Khiterer (Israel), Oksana Ostapchuk (Russia),
Igor Torbakov and Pavlo Mykhed (Ukraine), Maria Rewakowicz (USA),
Andrew Savchenko (Belarus), and Roman Wysocki (Poland). By their
professional profile and areas of interest the group mostly reflects the specializations of
HURI's own faculty: history, literature and language. There are
five historians, and four philologists, including specialists in
both literature and language. There is also an economist-cum-sociologist.
In addition to working on their separate research projects the fellows
are expected to participate in HURI's Seminar in Ukrainian Studies
and its Ukraine Studies Group which meet weekly at the Institute
during the academic year, as well as to present papers at and attend
the annual conferences of the American Association for the Advancement
of Slavic Studies, the Association for the Study of Nationalities
and other professional organizations. Henry Abramson, is the first
to complete his tenure as a 2002-2003 Shklar Fellow. His two and
a half months of work at HURI (June-August) resulted in the first
of a kind comprehensive online biography The Jews of Ukraine.
Four of the Fellows will be in residence at HURI during the fall
semester of 2002 and five more- in the spring of 2003.
Henry Abramson (June to August 2002)
Historian.
Dr. Abramson is an Associate Professor and University
Library Scholar of Judaica at Florida Atlantic University
(Boca Raton). He received his Ph.D. in history ("Jews
and Ukrainians in Revolutionary Times: Autonomy, Statehood
and Civil War, 1917-1920") from the University
of Toronto in1995. He has also taught at Cornell University,
and at the University of Toronto, and is the author of
three books, including, A Prayer for the Government:
Jews and Ukrainians in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 (published
by HURI and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies in
1999), and many scholarly articles. His areas of interest
include Jewish and Ukrainian history, modern Jewish history,
and representations of Jews in art and caricature. While
at HURI, Dr. Abramson compiled the first online bibliography
on the Jews of Ukraine which will allow researchers to
access information in a variety of disciplines and originating
in multiple languages. His work on the bibliography will
also form the basis of a monograph-length survey of Ukrainian-Jewish
history.
Victoria Khiterer (September to December, 2002)
Historian.
Dr. Khiterer is a Lecturer at Stanford University. She
received her Ph.D. in history ("Documents of
Jewish History in Kyiv's Archives, 16thto
20th Centuries") from the Russian
State University in Humanities, Moscow, in 1996. She
has taught at Stanford University and at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, and has written two monographs about Jewish
documents in the archival and library collections of
Ukraine (1999 and 2001), and numerous scholarly articles
which focus on various aspects of Jewish history and
culture in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Her areas of interest
are Jewish studies, and East European history. While
at HURI, Dr. Khiterer will be working on a book about
the history of Jews in Kyiv, from the late eighteenth
century to 1917, and will present a seminar on the history
of Jews in Kyiv and Ukraine.
Aleksander Kratochvil (January to June, 2003)
Literary
critic and philologist. Dr. Kratochvil is an Assistant
Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt
University in Greifswald, Germany. He received his Ph.D.
in Slavic studies, ethnology and East European history
from the Albert Ludwigs University (Freiburg, Germany)
in 1998. He has taught introduction to literary studies;
translation studies, Czech literature since 1945, Ukrainian
literature of the nineteenth century, modern Ukrainian
literature, Ukrainian ethno- and sociolinguistics at
the University of Freiburg, University of Plsen (Czech
Republic), and at the University of Greifswald (Germany).
He has published two books and a number of scholarly
articles on Ukrainian language and literature. His areas
of interest include Ukrainian and Czech literature of
the twentieth century, and sociolinguistics. While at
HURI, Dr. Kratochvil will address Ukrainian post-modernism
as presented in works of literature by Yuri.Andrukhovych,
Yuri Izdryk, Vasyl Kozhelianko, Bohda Zholdak, Oles Ulianenko)
and compare them with parallel phenomena in the Czech
Republic in works by Jachym.Topol, M. Urban, Michal Viewegh)
as well as against a wider East and Central European
context.
Guido Hausmann (October 2002 to March 2003)
Historian.
Dr. Hausmann is a Research Fellow at the University of
Cologne, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. in Russian
and East European history (University and Urban Society
in Odessa, 1865-1917. Social and National Self-Organization
at the Periphery of the Czarist Empire) in 1995.
He has taught at the University of Bielefeld, and the
University of Cologne and has written three books and
a number of scholarly articles. His areas of interest
include urban history, history of universities and sciences,
history of nationalities, and historiography. While at
HURI, Dr. Hausmann will be working on a historical and
comparative study of the phenomenon of kraieznavstvo
from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. Kraieznavstvo will
be analyzed in its three principal aspects: as a concept,
as a social movement, and as a factor in Ukrainian nation-building
during the 1920-s.
Pavlo Mykhed (January to April, 2003)
Philologist
and literary critic. Dr. Mykhed is an Associate Professor,
and Chair of the Department of Foreign Literature, and
Director of the Mykola Hohol Research Center, at the
Hohol State Pedagogical University in Nizhyn, Ukraine,
where he has taught since 1971. He received his Ph.D.
in philology from the National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine in1981. He has published many articles on Ukrainian
literature and language. His areas of interest include
Ukrainian literature of the seventeenth and nineteenth
centuries, Ukrainian-Russian literary and cultural contacts,
and Ukrainian studies of Russia (ukrainska rusystyka).
Dr. Mykhed's research at HURI will address the Ukrainian-Russian
dialogue of the nineteenth century and the re-conceptualization
of the field of Russian studies from a specifically Ukrainian
perspective which will incorporate the paradigms and
approaches adopted by scholars of the Ukrainian diaspora.
He will also be compiling an anthology of American and
British studies on Mykola Hohol.
Oksana Ostapchuk (September to December, 2002)
Philologist
and linguist. Dr. Ostapchuk is a Research Fellow at the
Center for Ukrainian Studies at the Institute of Slavonic
Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Assistant
Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University where
she received her Ph.D. in philology ("Title as
a Special Kind of Proper Name") in 1998. She
has taught Ukrainian grammar and language, and the history
of Ukrainian at Moscow University and at the Academy
of Slavonic Culture, Moscow. She has written a number
of articles in comparative Slavic linguistics. Her areas
of interest include social linguistics, language contacts,
comparative language studies, dialectology, and history
of literary language. While at HURI Dr. Ostapchuk will
focus on the socio-linguistic situation in Right Bank
Ukraine during the nineteenth century, in particular
on the interaction between Ukrainian, Polish and Russian
languages, and will study the typology of literary Ukrainian
and Polish.
Maria Rewakowicz (January to May, 2003)
Literary
critic and poet. Dr. Rewakowicz is a Research Assistant
Professor at Rutgers University. She received her Ph.D.
in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University
of Toronto in 2001. She has taught Ukrainian language
at the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, University
of Toronto, and Rutgers University. She has written four
collections of poetry: Zelenyi dakh (The Green Roof),
1999, M'iake E (Soft E), 1992, Shepotinnia,
shepotinnia (Whispering, Whispering), 1989, Z
mishka mandrivnyka (From A Wanderer's Sack), 1987,
and a number of articles on literature, and translated
Polish poetry into Ukrainian and English. Her areas of
interest include Ukrainian emigre literature, exilitic
paradigms: East-Central European literary voices in the
West, twentieth-century Ukrainian literature and literary
theory. While at HURI Dr. Rewakowicz will be working
on a book manuscript based on her Ph.D. dissertation
entitled "The Phenomenon and Poetry of the New York
Group: Discourses, Disguises and Liminality".
Andrew Savchenko (January to April, 2003)
Sociologist
and economist. Dr. Savchenko is a Visiting Scholar at
the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Institute for International
Studies, Brown University (1998-2002), and holds a Ph.D.
in sociology from Brown University ("Rationality,
Nationalism and Post-Communist Market Transformation:
a Comparative Analysis of Belarus, Poland, and the Baltic
States",1998). He has taught at Brown University,
Salve Regina University, University of Rhode Island,
and College of the Holy Cross. He has published one book
entitled Nationalism, Rationality, and Post-Communist
Market Transformation (2000) and a number of articles
on economic transformations of post-Soviet societies.
His areas of interest include economic sociology, political
economy, and post-Soviet, Eastern and Central European
studies. While at HURI, Dr. Savchenko will be examining
how the current political, economic, and cultural patterns
in Belarus continue to be influenced by the history of
conflicts with its neighbors and how, in turn, they are
superimposed upon the indigenous process of nation-building.
Igor Torbakov (September to December, 2002)
Historian.
Dr. Torbakov is a consultant for the Open Society Institute,
New York, NY. He received his Ph.D. in Russian and East
European history from the National Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine ("Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Russian
Enlightenment in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century"),
in 1997. He has authored two books and a number of scholarly
articles. His areas of interest include Russian and Ukrainian
history, and, more specifically, problems of nationalism
and nation-building in the Russian Empire and the USSR.
While at HURI, Dr. Torbakov will focus on Eurasianism
as a new post-revolutionary theory of nationalism, and
on the interpretation of its main ideas in George Vernadsky's
writings on Ukrainian history.
Roman Wysocki (January to April, 2003)
Historian,
Dr. Wysocki is an Assistant Professor at the Institute
of History at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin,
Poland. He received his Ph.D. in history from the same
university ("The Organization of the Ukrainian
Nationalists in Poland, 1929-1939") in 1999.
He has published a number of articles on Polish-Ukrainian
relations between the two World Wars, and on Ukrainians
and Belarusians in Poland. His areas of interest include
Polish-Ukrainian history in the twentieth century, and
Ukrainian emigrants in Poland. While at HURI, Dr. Wysocki
will compare the emergence, crystallization, and evolution
of nationalist ideologies of the two neighboring nations:
the Ukrainians represented by Dmytro Dontsov and the
Poles represented by Roman Dmowski.
Historian.
Dr. Abramson is an Associate Professor and University
Library Scholar of Judaica at Florida Atlantic University
(Boca Raton). He received his Ph.D. in history ("Jews
and Ukrainians in Revolutionary Times: Autonomy, Statehood
and Civil War, 1917-1920") from the University
of Toronto in1995. He has also taught at Cornell University,
and at the University of Toronto, and is the author of
three books, including, A Prayer for the Government:
Jews and Ukrainians in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 (published
by HURI and the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies in
1999), and many scholarly articles. His areas of interest
include Jewish and Ukrainian history, modern Jewish history,
and representations of Jews in art and caricature. While
at HURI, Dr. Abramson compiled the first online bibliography
on the Jews of Ukraine which will allow researchers to
access information in a variety of disciplines and originating
in multiple languages. His work on the bibliography will
also form the basis of a monograph-length survey of Ukrainian-Jewish
history.
Historian.
Dr. Khiterer is a Lecturer at Stanford University. She
received her Ph.D. in history ("Documents of
Jewish History in Kyiv's Archives, 16thto
20th Centuries") from the Russian
State University in Humanities, Moscow, in 1996. She
has taught at Stanford University and at the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, and has written two monographs about Jewish
documents in the archival and library collections of
Ukraine (1999 and 2001), and numerous scholarly articles
which focus on various aspects of Jewish history and
culture in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Her areas of interest
are Jewish studies, and East European history. While
at HURI, Dr. Khiterer will be working on a book about
the history of Jews in Kyiv, from the late eighteenth
century to 1917, and will present a seminar on the history
of Jews in Kyiv and Ukraine.
Literary
critic and philologist. Dr. Kratochvil is an Assistant
Professor at the Department of Slavic Studies, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt
University in Greifswald, Germany. He received his Ph.D.
in Slavic studies, ethnology and East European history
from the Albert Ludwigs University (Freiburg, Germany)
in 1998. He has taught introduction to literary studies;
translation studies, Czech literature since 1945, Ukrainian
literature of the nineteenth century, modern Ukrainian
literature, Ukrainian ethno- and sociolinguistics at
the University of Freiburg, University of Plsen (Czech
Republic), and at the University of Greifswald (Germany).
He has published two books and a number of scholarly
articles on Ukrainian language and literature. His areas
of interest include Ukrainian and Czech literature of
the twentieth century, and sociolinguistics. While at
HURI, Dr. Kratochvil will address Ukrainian post-modernism
as presented in works of literature by Yuri.Andrukhovych,
Yuri Izdryk, Vasyl Kozhelianko, Bohda Zholdak, Oles Ulianenko)
and compare them with parallel phenomena in the Czech
Republic in works by Jachym.Topol, M. Urban, Michal Viewegh)
as well as against a wider East and Central European
context.
Historian.
Dr. Hausmann is a Research Fellow at the University of
Cologne, Germany, where he received his Ph.D. in Russian
and East European history (University and Urban Society
in Odessa, 1865-1917. Social and National Self-Organization
at the Periphery of the Czarist Empire) in 1995.
He has taught at the University of Bielefeld, and the
University of Cologne and has written three books and
a number of scholarly articles. His areas of interest
include urban history, history of universities and sciences,
history of nationalities, and historiography. While at
HURI, Dr. Hausmann will be working on a historical and
comparative study of the phenomenon of kraieznavstvo
from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s. Kraieznavstvo will
be analyzed in its three principal aspects: as a concept,
as a social movement, and as a factor in Ukrainian nation-building
during the 1920-s.
Philologist
and literary critic. Dr. Mykhed is an Associate Professor,
and Chair of the Department of Foreign Literature, and
Director of the Mykola Hohol Research Center, at the
Hohol State Pedagogical University in Nizhyn, Ukraine,
where he has taught since 1971. He received his Ph.D.
in philology from the National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine in1981. He has published many articles on Ukrainian
literature and language. His areas of interest include
Ukrainian literature of the seventeenth and nineteenth
centuries, Ukrainian-Russian literary and cultural contacts,
and Ukrainian studies of Russia (ukrainska rusystyka).
Dr. Mykhed's research at HURI will address the Ukrainian-Russian
dialogue of the nineteenth century and the re-conceptualization
of the field of Russian studies from a specifically Ukrainian
perspective which will incorporate the paradigms and
approaches adopted by scholars of the Ukrainian diaspora.
He will also be compiling an anthology of American and
British studies on Mykola Hohol.
Philologist
and linguist. Dr. Ostapchuk is a Research Fellow at the
Center for Ukrainian Studies at the Institute of Slavonic
Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Assistant
Professor at Lomonosov Moscow State University where
she received her Ph.D. in philology ("Title as
a Special Kind of Proper Name") in 1998. She
has taught Ukrainian grammar and language, and the history
of Ukrainian at Moscow University and at the Academy
of Slavonic Culture, Moscow. She has written a number
of articles in comparative Slavic linguistics. Her areas
of interest include social linguistics, language contacts,
comparative language studies, dialectology, and history
of literary language. While at HURI Dr. Ostapchuk will
focus on the socio-linguistic situation in Right Bank
Ukraine during the nineteenth century, in particular
on the interaction between Ukrainian, Polish and Russian
languages, and will study the typology of literary Ukrainian
and Polish.
Literary
critic and poet. Dr. Rewakowicz is a Research Assistant
Professor at Rutgers University. She received her Ph.D.
in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University
of Toronto in 2001. She has taught Ukrainian language
at the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, University
of Toronto, and Rutgers University. She has written four
collections of poetry: Zelenyi dakh (The Green Roof),
1999, M'iake E (Soft E), 1992, Shepotinnia,
shepotinnia (Whispering, Whispering), 1989, Z
mishka mandrivnyka (From A Wanderer's Sack), 1987,
and a number of articles on literature, and translated
Polish poetry into Ukrainian and English. Her areas of
interest include Ukrainian emigre literature, exilitic
paradigms: East-Central European literary voices in the
West, twentieth-century Ukrainian literature and literary
theory. While at HURI Dr. Rewakowicz will be working
on a book manuscript based on her Ph.D. dissertation
entitled "The Phenomenon and Poetry of the New York
Group: Discourses, Disguises and Liminality".
Sociologist
and economist. Dr. Savchenko is a Visiting Scholar at
the Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Institute for International
Studies, Brown University (1998-2002), and holds a Ph.D.
in sociology from Brown University ("Rationality,
Nationalism and Post-Communist Market Transformation:
a Comparative Analysis of Belarus, Poland, and the Baltic
States",1998). He has taught at Brown University,
Salve Regina University, University of Rhode Island,
and College of the Holy Cross. He has published one book
entitled Nationalism, Rationality, and Post-Communist
Market Transformation (2000) and a number of articles
on economic transformations of post-Soviet societies.
His areas of interest include economic sociology, political
economy, and post-Soviet, Eastern and Central European
studies. While at HURI, Dr. Savchenko will be examining
how the current political, economic, and cultural patterns
in Belarus continue to be influenced by the history of
conflicts with its neighbors and how, in turn, they are
superimposed upon the indigenous process of nation-building.
Historian.
Dr. Torbakov is a consultant for the Open Society Institute,
New York, NY. He received his Ph.D. in Russian and East
European history from the National Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine ("Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and Russian
Enlightenment in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century"),
in 1997. He has authored two books and a number of scholarly
articles. His areas of interest include Russian and Ukrainian
history, and, more specifically, problems of nationalism
and nation-building in the Russian Empire and the USSR.
While at HURI, Dr. Torbakov will focus on Eurasianism
as a new post-revolutionary theory of nationalism, and
on the interpretation of its main ideas in George Vernadsky's
writings on Ukrainian history.
Historian,
Dr. Wysocki is an Assistant Professor at the Institute
of History at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin,
Poland. He received his Ph.D. in history from the same
university ("The Organization of the Ukrainian
Nationalists in Poland, 1929-1939") in 1999.
He has published a number of articles on Polish-Ukrainian
relations between the two World Wars, and on Ukrainians
and Belarusians in Poland. His areas of interest include
Polish-Ukrainian history in the twentieth century, and
Ukrainian emigrants in Poland. While at HURI, Dr. Wysocki
will compare the emergence, crystallization, and evolution
of nationalist ideologies of the two neighboring nations:
the Ukrainians represented by Dmytro Dontsov and the
Poles represented by Roman Dmowski.