Petro Jacyk Distinguished Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies

Jacyk Distinguished Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

February - May 2026

Supported by HURI with the Petro Jacyk Endowment Fund

Research Projects

Equalities and Differences: Their History through Human Classifications and Identities, Their

Jacyk Distingushed Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

September 2023 - January 2024
Supported by HURI with a gift from the Petro Jacyk Educational Foundation

HURI Research Project

The Spiritual Front in Multifaith Ukraine: ...

Title of Research

The Puzzle of Ukrainian Democracy: Presidents, Oligarchs and Informal Politics after the Euromaidan Revolution

Abstract

This project examines the Ukrainian political system after the 2014 Euromaidan revolution. Although new democratic...

Zvi Gitelman (Petro Jacyk Distinguished Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies, Fall 2010) is Professor of Political Science and the Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, where he has been on the faculty since 1968. He...

Oleksandr Zaytsev is a professor in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of Ukraine at the Ukrainian Catholic University. At HURI, he will conduct research to complete a monograph on the Lviv (Vistnyk) period of Dmytro Dontsov’s activities...

Giorgio Ziffer is Professor of Slavic Philology at the University of Udine (Italy). During his residency at HURI he will be working on “The Sermon “On Law and Grace” attributed to Metropolitan Hilarion: Towards a New Critical Edition.” Professor Ziffer...

Margarita M. Balmaceda (PhD, Princeton University) is Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. Concurrently, she is an Associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, and heads the Study Group on “Energy...