Fellows
Current Fellows
Coline Maestracci
cmaestracci@fas.harvard.eduPhD in Political Science from the Université de Bruxelles, Belgium (2024)
Postdoc at the École de Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France
HURI Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (February - May 2025) Supported by HURI with the Alex Woskob Family Foundation Endowment Fund. Research Project The War in Ukraine through the Prism of the Family Institution...
Danielle Leavitt
danielle_leavitt@g.harvard.eduIndependent Scholar
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University July 2023 - June 2025 Supported by the Dell Loy Hansen Family Foundation HURI Research Project Year of Thundering Nights: Charting the Paths of Eight Ukrainians through Russia's...
Emily Frey
eafrey@brandeis.eduAssistant Professor of Music at Brandeis University
Visiting Scholar at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University September - December 2024 HURI Research Project Acting Ukrainian: The Case of Osip Petrov “[The bass] Osip Petrov is one of the founders of the Russian operatic tradition,”...
Kateryna Ruban
kruban@fas.harvard.eduIndependent Scholar
Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University September 2024 - May 2025 Supported by HURI with the Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Fellowship Fund HURI Research Project Abortion, Emancipation, and Autonomy: OBGYN Nina...
Maria Grazia Bartolini
maria.bartolini@unimi.itAssociate Professor of Medieval Slavic Culture and Slavic Linguistics, University of Milan
HURI Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University September - December 2024 Supported by HURI with the Lev and Oksana Iwanna Sijak Szczur Ukrainian Fund HURI Research Project Immaculate Conception(s): The Virgin, the Purity of...
Maria Montague
mariamontague@fas.harvard.eduIndependent Scholar
Research Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute August 2024 - October 2026 Research Project Studying Abroad During Wartime: Engagement and Outlook of Ukrainian University Students in the U.S. Maria Montague is conducting qualitative research...
Mie Nakachi
mnakachi@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of Global Studies, Hokusei Gakuen University
Research Associate, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center of Hokkaido University
HURI Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (February - May 2025) Supported by HURI with the Stefan and Iwanna Rozankowskyj Ukrainian Fund. Research Project The World’s First Demographic Institute?: The Ukrainian Institute...
Oleksandra Keudel
okeudel@kse.org.uaAssociate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Governance, Kyiv School of Economics
HURI Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (September - December 2024) Supported by HURI with the Alex Woskob Family Foundation Endowment Fund Research Project Local Governance and Ukraine’s Patronal Democracy During...
Serhiy Lepyavko
slepyavko@fas.harvard.eduProfessor of History, Nizhyn Gogol State University, Ukraine
Director of the NGO The Siverian Institute of Regional Studies, Chernihiv
HURI Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (February - July 2025) Supported jointly by a VUIAS Fellowship Abroad and by HURI with the Alex Woskob Family Foundation Endowment Fund Research Project Comparative Studies in...
Tatiana Tairova (Yakovleva)
ttairova@fas.harvard.eduIndependent Scholar
Jacyk Distingushed Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University September 2024 - January 2025 Supported by HURI with a gift from the Petro Jacyk Educational Foundation HURI Research Project "Not on the saber!" The Ukrainian Cossack Elite...
Valery Bulhakau
valery.bulhakau@ehu.ltPhD Lecturer at European Humanities University in Vilnius
Visiting Scholar at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University May 2023 - October 2024 Supported by a Fulbright Visiting Scholar grant HURI Research Project Russification and De-Russification in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Belarus: Dimensions of...
