# Fellows ## Current Fellows [### Coline Maestracci ](/people/coline-maestracci) PhD 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... ![Photo of Coline Maestracci](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-03/MAESTRACCI%20Coline-2.jpg?itok=wvsBoD_5) [### Danielle Leavitt ](/people/danielle-leavitt-2023) [danielle\_leavitt@g.harvard.edu](mailto:danielle_leavitt@g.harvard.edu)Independent 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... ![Danielle Leavitt](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/leavitt_1_0.jpeg?itok=3smpaMWa) [### Emily Frey ](/people/emily-frey) Assistant 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,”... ![Emily Frey](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/emily_frey.png?itok=iJ_xKz5j) [### Kateryna Ruban ](/people/kateryna-ruban) Independent 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... ![Kateryna Ruban](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/kateryna-ruban_1.jpg?itok=TNseXvoC) [### Maria Grazia Bartolini ](/people/maria-grazia-bartolini) Associate 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 Grazia Bartolini](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/me300_01.jpg?itok=0HlMpVyV) [### Maria Montague ](/people/maria-montague) Independent 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... ![Maria Montague](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/m_montague_profile_photo.png?itok=vxNeSWt9) [### Mie Nakachi ](/people/mie-nakachi) Professor 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... ![Photo of Mie Nakachi](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-03/Nakachi%20photo.jpg?h=49941265&itok=vtZX33zO) [### Oleksandra Keudel ](/people/oleksandra-keudel) Associate 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... ![Photo of Oleksandra Keudel](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-03/Keudel_2023.jpg?itok=yYV1E1L5) [### Serhiy Lepyavko ](/people/serhiy-lepyavko) Professor 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... ![Serhiy Lepyavko](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-04/SL%2008C_0.jpg?itok=1Hbv2VJh) [### Tatiana Tairova (Yakovleva) ](/people/tatiana-tairova-yakovleva) Independent 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... ![Tatiana Tairova Yakovleva](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/tatiyana_baturin_01_2_0_0_0_0_0.jpg?itok=5hUPCJFy) [### Valery Bulhakau ](/people/valery-bulhakau) PhD 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... ![Valery Bulhakau](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/valery-bulhakau_01.jpg?itok=7dQmbDL_) [ See Past Fellows > arrow\_circle\_right ](/fellows) ## Past Fellows Open all sections Close all sections