Lilya
Berezhnaya currently is a research fellow at Central European
University, Budapest, where she earned her Ph.D. in history
in 2003. She will spend four months at Harvard (February–May
2005) to work on the topic “Death and the Afterlife in
Early Modern Ukrainian Culture.” Berezhnaya will study
attitudes toward death and the afterlife as they were manifested
in the Catholic, Orthodox, and Uniate cultures of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth. The fellowship is funded by the Dr. Roman and
Patrylo Moroz endowed gift in support of research fellows at
HURI, and by the Oksana Czeredarczuk Folwarkiw Ukrainian Fund.
Serhiy
Bilenky, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto,
earned his kandydat degree in history in 2001 from Shevchenko
National University of Kyiv. He will spend eight months at Harvard
(September–April 2005), working on the topic “Eastern
Europe in Search of a Nation: Romantic Nationalism and Imagined
Communities in Ukraine, Poland, and Russia in the 1830s and
1840s.” He will examine how modern Polish, Ukrainian, and
Russian national identities were constructed and mapped during
the Romantic period 1830–1850. This fellowship is funded
by the Ukrainian Studies Fund, Inc. endowed gift in support
of research in Ukrainian studies at HURI, and the Ihor and Oksana
Humeniuk Ukrainian Fund in support of research in Ukrainian
history.
Ihor
Chornovol currently holds the title of Researcher at the
Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, National Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine in Lviv. He earned his kandydat degree
in history in 1995 from the same institution. He will spend
four months at Harvard (September–December 2004), working
on the topic “‘Wild West’ and ‘Wild Fields’:
The Frontier in American and Ukrainian History.” His research
will focus on a comparison of Ukrainian and American history
in the context of Frederick Jackson Turner’s theory of
the “frontier.” This fellowship is funded by the Mr.
and Mrs. Alex Woscob endowed gift in support of scholars conducting
research on issues related to Ukrainian history.
Amelia
Glaser
recently completed her Ph.D. in literature at Stanford University.
From September through December 2004, she will conduct research
on the topic “To Market: Jewish-Slavic Exchange in East
European Literatures.” In particular, she will assess the
importance of marketplace exchange in the literatures of nineteenth-
and early twentieth-century Ukraine (Ukrainian, Russian, and
Yiddish). This fellowship is funded by the Michael Novak endowed
gift fund in support of HURI fellows.
Henry Hale, an
assistant professor of political science at Indiana University,
earned his Ph.D. in 1998 at Harvard. During the summer of 2004,
Hale worked at the Institute on the topic “Ukraine’s
Drive for Independence and Theories of Ethnic Politics,”
focusing on the question of how much “identity” politics
lies at the root of separatism, especially in Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
Continuing this research in the fall of 2004, he plans to develop
new theoretical insights into identity to explain how and under
what conditions ethnicity matters in political events. This
fellowship is funded by the Wolodymyr Smigurowskyi endowed gift
in support of scholarship at HURI.
Ihor
Papusha is lecturer of philology at Ternopil State Pedagogical
University. He earned his kandydat degree in literature in 1998
from Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. At Harvard, he
will be in residence for eight months (September 2004–April
2005), conducting research on the topic “Ukrainian Literature
in Narrative Perspective.” Comparative in nature, this
study will address problems pertaining to the study of narratology
in Ukrainian literature in both European and American contexts.
This fellowship is funded by the Dr. Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk
endowed gift in support of postdoctoral research at HURI.
Liudmila Sharipova
is Sustasoma Research Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
University, where she received her Ph.D. degree in 1999. She
will spend four months at Harvard (February–May 2005),
conducting research on the single surviving manuscript of Petro
Mohyla’s “Knyha dushi,” a rendition into Ukrainian
of the famous work by Thomas à Kempis entitled The Imitation
of Christ. Her hypothesis is that this study will yield deeper
insights into Mohyla’s point of view on religious issues
as he began his ecclesiastical career, as well as some of the
broader applications by Ukrainian Orthodox literati of Western
sources in the early modern period. This fellowship is funded
by the Lubomyra Hladky endowed gift in support of visiting scholars’
research at HURI.
Tomasz
Stryjek
is adjunct professor at the Institute of Political Studies,
Polish Academy of Sciences, where he received his Ph.D. in 1996.
While at Harvard (September–December 2004), he will examine
the broad issues of nation and nationalism by analyzing categories
evident in twentieth-century Soviet social thought and in various
theories of history developed by independent Ukrainian thinkers,
including many in the diaspora. This fellowship is funded by
the Mr. and Mrs. Alex Woscob endowed gift in support of scholars
conducting research on issues related to Ukrainian history.
Serhiy
Bilenky, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto,
earned his kandydat degree in history in 2001 from Shevchenko
National University of Kyiv. He will spend eight months at Harvard
(September–April 2005), working on the topic “Eastern
Europe in Search of a Nation: Romantic Nationalism and Imagined
Communities in Ukraine, Poland, and Russia in the 1830s and
1840s.” He will examine how modern Polish, Ukrainian, and
Russian national identities were constructed and mapped during
the Romantic period 1830–1850. This fellowship is funded
by the Ukrainian Studies Fund, Inc. endowed gift in support
of research in Ukrainian studies at HURI, and the Ihor and Oksana
Humeniuk Ukrainian Fund in support of research in Ukrainian
history. 
Ihor
Chornovol currently holds the title of Researcher at the
Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, National Academy
of Sciences of Ukraine in Lviv. He earned his kandydat degree
in history in 1995 from the same institution. He will spend
four months at Harvard (September–December 2004), working
on the topic “‘Wild West’ and ‘Wild Fields’:
The Frontier in American and Ukrainian History.” His research
will focus on a comparison of Ukrainian and American history
in the context of Frederick Jackson Turner’s theory of
the “frontier.” This fellowship is funded by the Mr.
and Mrs. Alex Woscob endowed gift in support of scholars conducting
research on issues related to Ukrainian history.
Amelia
Glaser
recently completed her Ph.D. in literature at Stanford University.
From September through December 2004, she will conduct research
on the topic “To Market: Jewish-Slavic Exchange in East
European Literatures.” In particular, she will assess the
importance of marketplace exchange in the literatures of nineteenth-
and early twentieth-century Ukraine (Ukrainian, Russian, and
Yiddish). This fellowship is funded by the Michael Novak endowed
gift fund in support of HURI fellows.
Ihor
Papusha is lecturer of philology at Ternopil State Pedagogical
University. He earned his kandydat degree in literature in 1998
from Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. At Harvard, he
will be in residence for eight months (September 2004–April
2005), conducting research on the topic “Ukrainian Literature
in Narrative Perspective.” Comparative in nature, this
study will address problems pertaining to the study of narratology
in Ukrainian literature in both European and American contexts.
This fellowship is funded by the Dr. Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk
endowed gift in support of postdoctoral research at HURI.
Tomasz
Stryjek
is adjunct professor at the Institute of Political Studies,
Polish Academy of Sciences, where he received his Ph.D. in 1996.
While at Harvard (September–December 2004), he will examine
the broad issues of nation and nationalism by analyzing categories
evident in twentieth-century Soviet social thought and in various
theories of history developed by independent Ukrainian thinkers,
including many in the diaspora. This fellowship is funded by
the Mr. and Mrs. Alex Woscob endowed gift in support of scholars
conducting research on issues related to Ukrainian history.