The Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellows and the Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellows

2011–2012

The Ukrainian Research Institute is pleased to announce the scholars who have been awarded research fellowships for 2011–12, the eleventh year of the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies. Through the generous annual gift of the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Foundation of California, the Institute has been able to offer distinguished scholars from around the world the opportunity to visit the Institute for focused research on important projects concerning Ukrainian history, politics, literature, linguistics, and culture. Since its inception in the fall of 2001, over sixty scholars have come to the Institute for an average of four months to carry out independent work. This year, seven scholars will receive fellowships.

Three additional scholars have received Institute fellowships for the coming year: Mayhill Fowler and Harun Yilmaz were awarded the Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Ukrainian Studies, and Giovanna Brogi was awarded the Petro Jacyk Distinguished Research Fellowship in Ukrainian Studies.

As part of their fellowships, scholars are expected to engage in the academic life of the Institute, consulting with students and faculty, and presenting a formal lecture as part of the Institute’s weekly “Seminars in Ukrainian Studies.”

FALL SEMESTER

The Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellows

Viktor Brekhunenko
Department Head, M.S. Hrushevs'kyi Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Sources Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Professor of History, National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”
Proposed research: “Christian Cossack Communities and Christian States: Coexistence and Integration (16th-17th Centuries)”

Marta Dyczok
Associate Professor, Departments of Political Science and History
University of Western Ontario
Proposed research:  “Politics of History: Ukrainian Refugees and the Cold War Now, 1944-2011”

Alexander Gogun
PhD Candidate
Free University Berlin, Berlin College for Comparative History of Europe
Proposed research:  “World War II in Ukraine, 1939-1941”

Nadiya V. Kravets
PhD Candidate completing in June 2011
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Oxford, St. Antony’s College
Proposed research:  “Ukraine's Policy towards Russia (1991-2011)”

Petro Jacyk Distinguished Fellow

Giovanna Brogi
Professor for Ukrainian Literature
Professor for History of the Russian Language
University of Milan
Proposed research:  “Taras Shevchenko:  The poet in the European Context and in the Perception of the European Reader”

SPRING SEMESTER

The Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellows

Alexander Dmitriev
Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for the History of Ideas and Sociology of Knowledge
Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities (National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
Proposed research:  “The Making of Ukrainian Academic Research: Imperial, Soviet and European Aspects (the First Three Decades of the 20th Century)”

Ostap Sereda
Senior Research Fellow
I. Kripiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Proposed research:  “Musical Theater and Cultural Politics in Russian-ruled Kyiv (1856–1896)”

 

Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Elise Richter Research Fellow
University of Vienna, Department of Political Science
Proposed research:  “Politics of Memory in Ukrainian-Russian and Ukrainian-Polish Borderlands”

The Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Mayhill Fowler
Ph.D. candidate completing in May 2011
Department of History, Princeton University
Proposed research:  “Beau Monde: State and Stage on Empire’s Edge, Russia and Soviet Ukraine, 1916-1941”

Harun Yilmaz
Ph.D., Department of History
St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Proposed research:  “Construction of Ukrainian National Identity in Soviet Historiography, 1936-1954”