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Shklar Fellows
2006–2007
Konstantin
Akinsha is a correspondent for ARTnews magazinein Budapest, Hungary.
He earned his Kandydat nauk degree in 1990 in art history, and will spend
four months at Harvard (February-May 2007) to work on the topic "The
Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum: The Fate of the Dispersed Collection." Akinsha
will study the history of one of the most significant private collections
of West European art ever assembled in Ukraine and will trace the dispersal
and destruction of that collection from the Bolshevik Revolution through
Jessica
Allina-Pisano, assistant professor in the Department of Political
Science at Colgate University, earned her Ph.D. in political science
in 2003 from Yale University. During her four months at Harvard (September-December
2006), Allina-Pisano will research the topic "The Last Barbed
Wire Fence in Europe: State Power and Economy in a Divided Village
of Zakarpattia, 1945-2005." She will study how "policies
intended primarily to secure state sovereignty reach beyond political
life to drive or limit economic opportunities" by looking at
the effects of state control on the access of rural peoples to the
means of capital reproduction in two villages, Kisszelmenc and Nagyszelmenc,
located next to each other but separated by the Ukraine-European
Union border.
Tarik
C. Amar received his Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in
2006. Amar will spend four months at Harvard (February 2006-May 2007)
to work on the topic "The Making of Soviet Lviv, 1939 to 1963."
His study will address the question of the making of a distinct Soviet
Western Ukrainian identity by looking at how a Soviet Ukrainian Lviv
was fashioned out of the prewar Polish-dominated and multiethnic
Lwów.
Mark
Andryczyk is an instructor in contemporary Ukrainian literature at
Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. He holds a Ph.D. (2005) in
Ukrainian literature from the University of Toronto. He will spend
four months at Harvard (September-December 2006) to conduct research
on "A Community of Others: The Identity of the Ukrainian Intellectual
in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Prose." Andryczyk will study the depiction
of the Ukrainian intellectual throughout the history of modern Ukrainian
literature. As part of his work, he will look at the re-engagement
of the Ukrainian intellectual in society during the Orange Revolution,
the emergence of a new generation of writers, and the recent new
scholarship that has been published on the topic. 
El´vis
Beytullayev is a junior research fellow at Wolfson College, University
of Cambridge. He earned a Ph.D. in international studies at University
of Cambridge in 2006. He will spend four months at Harvard (September
2006-December 2006) to work on the topic "The Crimean Political
Scene in the Post-Soviet Era and Its Implications for Ukraine's Relations
with Turkey and Russia." Beytullayev will examine how domestic
Crimean politics have affected relations between Ukraine and Russia
since Ukraine's independence from the Soviet Union.
Jerzy
Maćków is a professor of comparative government at the
University of Regensburg. Maćków earned his doctorate
in 1992 at the University of Hamburg, followed by his Habilitation in
1998 at the Armed Forces University in Hamburg. He will spend four
months (September-December 2006) at Harvard to research the topic
"Has the Orange Revolution Changed the Ukrainian Political System?
The Democratization of Post-Communist Authoritarianism." Maćków's
work will investigate whether the Orange Revolution brought about
significant democratization to the authoritarianism that has been
characteristic of Ukraine's government since independence. In doing
so, he will focus on two questions: 1) whether in the wake of the
Orange Revolution new aspects of national identity emerged that have
facilitated the implementation of a democratic reform agenda in Ukraine;
and 2) whether the political elite has altered its attitude to law
and politics regarding the opposition in order to create a functioning
constitutional state.
Vladimir
Melamed completed his graduate studies in modern East-Central European
history at the Ukrainian Studies Institute, National Academy of Ukraine,
Lviv, in 1995. Currently he is an independent scholar based in California
and is a consultant for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
He will spend four months at Harvard (September-December 2006) to
study
"Ukrainian-Jewish Relations in Interwar Eastern Galicia, 1918-1939:
Ukrainian Perspective, Jewish Perspective." Melamed plans to
investigate a number of aspects of Ukrainian-Jewish relations within
the context of the interwar Polish state. The topics include the
Lviv pogrom of November 1918; the Jewish-Polish compromise of 1925;
anti-semitism in Polish institutions of higher learning, and similar
topics, and the reaction to these events within Ukrainian and Jewish
societies in accordance with their perceptions, stereotypes, and
past experience.
Tatiana
Oparina is associate professor in history at Novosibirsk Pedagogical
University where she has been on the faculty for the last fifteen
years. Oparina will spend four months at Harvard (February-June 2007)
to work on "Russian-Ukrainian Ecclesiastical Contacts and the
Problem of the 'True Faith' from the end of the Time of Troubles
(1613) to the Treaty of Pereiaslav (1654)." The project will
investigate the views of the Moscow Patriarchate on Kyiv-style piety,
Kyivan theology, the problem of "heresy" in Ukrainian texts,
and divergences in canon law practices in a period when Muscovy was
becoming more closely familiar with Ukrainian religious practices
and falling under their influence.
Johannes
Remy is lecturer in Russian and East European Studies at the Renvall
Institute for Area and Cultural Studies at the University of Helsinki.
He received his Ph.D. in history in 2000 from the same institution.
Remy will come to Harvard for four months (February-May 2007) to
work on the topic "Ukrainian Nationalism and Russia from the
1840s to the 1870s" which will comprise two major parts: first,
the formation of Ukrainian national mythology; second, the political
programs of Ukrainian activists, their positions on the Polish insurrection
(1863-1864), and the government's policies in relation to the Ukrainian
movement.
Steven
Seegel earned his Ph.D. in history in 2005 at Brown University. For
the past year, he has held the position of lecturer at the University
of Tennessee. He will come to Harvard for four months (August-May,
2006) to research the topic "Cartography and the Representation
of Modern Ukraine." His work looks at the strategic use of the
discourse of historical/geographic science and racial/ethnolinguistic
categorization to represent a modern Ukraine between the Russian
and Habsburg empires, as well as the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth. 
Ihor
Zhuk is the director of the Leopolis Project and the curator of the
Collection of Visual Materials at Ukrainian Catholic University.
He received his Kandydat nauk degree in art history in 1989
from the Moscow School of Industrial and Applied Art. A longtime
colleague of HURI, Zhuk will return to the Institute for four months
(February-May 2007) to conduct further work on the Leopolis Project.
During his stay at Harvard, Zhuk will draw on material housed at
Harvard to assemble blocks of textual and visual data, and compile
new e-documents for this complex hypertext and visual resource of
valuable art objects and historically significant architecture found
in Ukraine and dating from the Neolithic period to the present. Zhuk's
work at Harvard will result in a thoroughly elaborated art history
database of over 2500 objects to be used as a teaching and research
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