This project concerns Yurii Kosach’s life and literary works in a broad perspective, accenting the complexity of his search for the Ukrainian nation in cultural and political terms. Kosach’s works, all written in Ukrainian, enrich Ukrainian culture and...
“Forgotten Female Rulers of Medieval Europe” will reconstruct the reigns of ten princesses of Kyivan Rus' in the eleventh to mid-thirteenth centuries, both Orthodox Rus'-born brides who became Western medieval queens, duchesses, and noblewomen, as well...
This research project intends to investigate a two-pronged question: 1) how the differing, imperial-like natures of Russia and the European Union (coupled with political imagination of their respective elites) make it hard for them to find an...
While much has been published about the Holodomor’s origins, the factors accounted for variation in excess deaths have been less systematically explored. The aim of the proposed research project is to define possible determinants of regional differences...
This project examines strategies employed by Ukrainian writers of the late 1960s and 1970s in dealing with the Soviet state that aimed at omitting it to the greatest possible extent from their work and everyday life. Their withdrawal from public life and...
Professor Paul D’Anieri is an expert on Eastern European and post-Soviet politics. He is author of Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics and Institutional Design (M.E. Sharpe, 2007) and International Politics: Power and Purpose in Global...
This project explores an urgent and exciting phenomenon: the developments in Ukrainian poetry in the years after the upheaval of the 2014 Euromaidan and during the Russo-Ukrainian “hybrid-war” in Donbas. Barskova argues that it is within the realm of...
This history of the Ukrainian Hetmanate under Pavlo Skoropadsky in 1918—the first English-language monograph of its kind—will depart from the conventional view that reduces the state to a mere wartime creation of Germany. Instead, it aims to show the...