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Attilio Bellezza is a fellow at the School of Advanced Historical
Studies, University of San Marino, and earned his Ph.D. in European
social history in 2007. He will spend four months at Harvard (February–May 2008) studying the topic “The Shestydesiatnyky and
the Language Question from Khrushchev’s Reform of Education
to Petro Shelest’s Removal (1955–73),” focusing
on the battle for the use of the Ukrainian language as a means
of diffusion of culture and scientific knowledge.
 Dmitrii
Belkin earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen
in 2000 and is an academic researcher at Humboldt University, Berlin,
and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History, Frankfurt. During
his four months at Harvard (February–May 2008), Belkin will
research the topic “From Law to Legality: Jewish Legal Culture
in Ukraine, 1905–32.” The study’s main focus
will be Jewish politicians, jurists and “ordinary people” in
their interrelations with Jewish society and the Russian/Ukrainian
government, and will examine the continuity of Jewish legal culture
in Ukraine before and after the Revolution of 1917. Belkin also
plans to analyze the complex relationships informing public policy,
religion, and legal practices.
 Oksana
Blashkiv is an academic researcher at Ivan Franko State
Pedagogical University of Drohobych. She received her master’s
degree in comparative literature from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National
University in 2002. She will be at Harvard for four months (February–May
2008) to explore the personal relationship between Roman Jakobson
(1896–1982) and Dmytro Čyževs´kyj (1894–1977).
Blashkiv will use the Jakobson archive at MIT, as well as the archives
of American contemporaries and colleagues of both scholars, to
trace the development of their relationship.
 Andriy
Danylenko is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and
Cultures at Pace University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1990 from Moscow
Friendship of Peoples University. During his four-month stay at
Harvard (February–May
2008), Danylenko will work on the topic “The Formation of
New Standard Ukrainian in 1798: Bridging Tradition and Innovation.” Danylenko
hopes to present a comprehensive survey of consecutive stages in
the formation of new standard Ukrainian from late Middle Ukrainian
to the early modern period, examining the place of Ruthenians and
their languages (Church Slavonic and prosta mova) in the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and comparing the sociolinguistic
situation in Galicia, Transcarpathia, and Bukovyna to that in the
Hetmanate and Sloboda Ukraine in the eighteenth century.
 Yuriy Zazulyak is a junior research fellow at the Institute of
Ukrainian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv,
and received his Kandydat nauk degree in 2004. He will
spend three months at Harvard (February–May 2008) researching
the topic “Violence, Courts, and Noble Community in Late
Medieval Galicia.” His work will investigate interpersonal
violence and nobles’ disputes in late medieval Galicia, based
on the premise of the key role violence and litigation played in
shaping the ethos and identity of members of the noble estate.
The main aim of Zazulyak’s project is to approach noble violence
and disputes as complex social phenomena, interpreting them as
a point of intersection of different aspects of social reality.
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