# People # People A team of staff, faculty, advisors, and scholars drive HURI's work and shape its activities. ![](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/huri/files/People_typing_on_laptops_long.jpg?itok=pH41gycR) people ### 200+ **Fellows** people ### 30+ **Associates** flag ### 15+ **Countries** **Represented** school ### 25+ **Fields of Study** ## Find People by Field of Expertise or Name [ Search People arrow\_circle\_right ](/people/search) Executive Committee Faculty Staff Current Fellows Associates ## Executive Committee [### Timothy J. Colton ](/people/timothy-j-colton) [tcolton@fas.harvard.edu ]()Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University ![Timothy Colton](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/colton_t_1.jpg?itok=0wpSs6PK) [### Michael S. Flier ](/people/michael-s-flier) Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology (Emeritus), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University ![Michael Flier](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/2009_july_flier.jpg?itok=ahWpjJnh) [### Terry Martin ](/people/terry-martin) George F. Baker Professor of Russian Studies, Department of History, Harvard University Director, Ukrainian Research Institute ![Terry Martin](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/martin_terry.jpg?itok=2urWIf2x) [### Serhii Plokhii ](/people/serhii-plokhii) Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History, Harvard University ![Serhii Plokhii](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/serhii_plokhii_3-1_1_0.jpg?itok=h5H4jyKA) [### Bohdan Tokarskyi ](/people/bohdan-tokarskyi) Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University ![Bohdan Tokarskyi](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/2023_01_25-bohdan-tokarsky-thomas-roese_dsc7871-ps_smaller_1.png?itok=dcQlRcTl) ## Faculty [### Michael S. Flier ](/people/michael-s-flier) Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology (Emeritus), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University ![Michael Flier](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/2009_july_flier.jpg?itok=ahWpjJnh) [### George G. Grabowicz ](/people/george-g-grabowicz) Dmytro Čyževs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian Literature (Emeritus), Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University ![George Grabowicz](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/grabowicz_0166_9093.jpg?itok=MNnMPwU0) [### Serhii Plokhii ](/people/serhii-plokhii) Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History, Harvard University ![Serhii Plokhii](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/serhii_plokhii_3-1_1_0.jpg?itok=h5H4jyKA) [### Roman Szporluk ](/people/roman-szporluk) Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History (Emeritus), Department of History, Harvard University ![Roman Szporluk](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/sporluk.jpg?itok=SGpGtDvu) ## Staff [### Olha Aleksic ](/people/olha-aleksic) Petro Jacyk Bibliographer for Ukrainian Collections ![Picture of Olha Aleksic](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/aleksic_2019.jpg?h=cb36f482&itok=UhJPW1CA) [### Kat Ambrus ](/people/kat-ambrus) Events Logistics Coordinator ![Kat Ambrus](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/ambrus%20headshot_0.jpg?itok=tLa3MnAL) [### Kostyantyn Bondarenko ](/people/kostyantyn-bondarenko) [kbondar@fas.harvard.edu ]()IT Professional/MAPA Project Manager ![Kostyantyn Bondarenko](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/bondarenko_0070_9093.jpg?itok=XL0o2bA8) [### Emily Channell-Justice ](/people/emily-channell-justice) [echannelljustice@fas.harvard.edu ]()Director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program ![Emily Channell-Justice](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/channell-justice_250.jpg?itok=7K4W2JO9) [### Anna Chukur ](/people/anna-chukur) Assistant Editor, Harvard Ukrainian Studies ![Anna_Chukur](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/Anna_Chukur_3x4.png?itok=QuJvb1Go) [### Volodymyr Dibrova ](/people/volodymyr-dibrova) [vdibrova@fas.harvard.edu ]()Media Content Specialist - Research Reporter, HURI ![Volodymyr Dibrova](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/dibrova_0082_9093.jpg?itok=ugShq41t) [### Megan Duncan Smith ](/people/megan-duncan-smith) Programs Manager ![Photo of Megan Duncan Smith](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-03/2023-11-03.JPG?h=82aeb365&itok=6yZuUu6u) [### Tymish Holowinsky ](/people/tymish-holowinsky) Executive Director ![Tymish Holowinsky](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/THolowinsky.JPG?h=16eb185a&itok=h18aj8pS) [### Halyna Hryn ](/people/halyna-hryn) Editor, Harvard Ukrainian Studies ![Halyna_Hryn](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/Halyna_Hryn_3x4.png?itok=TKZLx2_c) [### Alla Karasova ](/people/alla-karasova) Publications and Library Assistant ![Alla_Karasova](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/Alla_Karasova_3x4.png?itok=XrKWIemL) [### Oleh Kotsyuba ](/people/oleh-kotsyuba) Director, Print and Digital Publications ![Oleh Kotsyuba](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/Oleh_Kotsyuba_3x4.png?itok=VyRmgxxq) [### Kateryna Kuzmyk ](/people/kateryna-kuzmyk) Social Media and Marketing Specialist, HURI Publications (part-time) ![Kateryna Kuzmyk](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/Kateryna_Kuzmyk_3x4.png?itok=JGKD5bpV) [### Terry Martin ](/people/terry-martin) George F. Baker Professor of Russian Studies, Department of History, Harvard University Director, Ukrainian Research Institute ![Terry Martin](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/martin_terry.jpg?itok=2urWIf2x) [### Vladyslav Nekhoroshykh ](/people/vladyslav-nekhoroshykh) Grants Coordinator, HURI Publications (part-time) ![Vladyslav Nekhoroshykh](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/Vladyslav_Nekhoroshykh_3x4.png?itok=8NwOtVRG) [### M.J. Scott ](/people/mj-scott) [mjscott@fas.harvard.edu ]()Financial Associate ![MJ Scott](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/scott_0145_9093.jpg?itok=6bqy0ZBo) [### Michelle Viise ](/people/michelle-viise) Monographs Editor ![Michelle Viise](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/Michelle_Viise_3x4.png?itok=UpL0f_Ri) ## Current Fellows [### Tatsiana Astrouskaya ](/people/fellow-tatsiana-astrouskaya) Research Fellow at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg ![Tatsiana Astrouskaya](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Tatsiana-Astrouskaya-small.png?h=e766fe70&itok=KysYSHoy) [### Yuliya Bidenko ](/people/fellow-yuliya-bidenko-2025) Associate Professor of Political Science, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University ![Yuliia Bidenko 2025](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/Bidenko_kharkiv_2025_HURI_2.JPG?h=707d3c1d&itok=AO09E_z5) [### Laada Bilaniuk ](/people/fellow-laada-bilaniuk-2026) Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington ![Laada Bilaniuk](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/LaadaBilaniuk-Jun2025.jpeg?h=938d8e5c&itok=CRSqG29B) [### Vitalii Borymskyi ](/people/vitalii-borymskyi) Research Fellow at the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ![Vitalii Borymskyi 2025](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/vitalii-borymskyi.jpg?h=d0f238dd&itok=E46_DdzS) [### Marta Gosovska ](/people/2026-visitor-marta-gosovska) Editor-in-Chief of the Foreign Department at Laboratoria Publishing House, Ukraine Translator ![Marta Gosovska](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/Gosovska.jpg?h=9abd7c1f&itok=GlKp8VKy) [### Andrea Graziosi ](/people/fellow-andrea-graziosi-2026) Professor Emeritus of Modern History, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy ![Andrea Graziosi](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Andrea_Graziosi_2024.jpg?h=3ffa5bd7&itok=cedrNS6E) [### Tamara Hundorova ](/people/fellow-tamara-hundorova-2025) Principal Research Fellow, Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine ![Tamara Hundorova](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/hundorova_t.jpg?itok=6FSBN_Ns) [### Volodymyr Kravchenko ](/people/fellow-volodymyr-kravchenko-2026) Professor of History, Classics, and Religion, University of Alberta Senior Research Fellow, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies ![Volodymyr Kravchenko](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/IMG_1889.jpg?h=7481edf5&itok=oMHg_AFj) [### Natalia Kudriavtseva ](/people/fellow-natalia-kudriavtseva-2026) Professor, Department of Translation and Slavic Studies, Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, Ukraine ![Natalia Kudriavtseva](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Kudriavtseva_HURI_2026.jpg?h=87dbb64b&itok=kkw9o81y) [### Emma Mateo ](/people/emma-mateo) Independent Scholar ![Emma Mateo](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Emma%20Mateo.jpeg?itok=eBP1YWIA) [### Maria Montague ](/people/maria-montague) Independent Scholar ![Maria Montague](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/m_montague_profile_photo.png?itok=vxNeSWt9) [### Eleonora Narvselius ](/people/2026-visitor-eleonora-narvselius) Associate Professor of European Studies at Lund University, Sweden ![Eleonora Narvselius](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-05/Ska%CC%88rmavbild%202025-03-18%20kl.%2022.13.22.jpeg?itok=6O5mJc1J) [### Valentyna Savchyn ](/people/2025-visitor-valentyna-savchyn) Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies at Lund University, Sweden ![Valentyna Savchyn](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Valentyna%20Savchyn.jpg?h=2e991367&itok=4YRRg5M4) ## Read More [ View All Fellows arrow\_circle\_right ](/fellows) ## Associates [### Margarita Balmaceda ](/people/margarita-balmaceda) Professor of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University ![Margarita Balmaceda](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/balmaceda-m_1.jpg?itok=L8QmJJL3) [### Peter Brown ](/people/peter-brown) Professor of Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian History, Rhode Island College ![Peter Brown](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/peter-brown-360x460_1.jpg?itok=sG5-XEUE) [### Ganna Chepurda ](/people/anna-chepurda) [ganna\_chepurda@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:ganna_chepurda@fas.harvard.edu)Professor of History, Cherkasy State Technological University ![Anna Chepurda](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/profile_picture.jpg?itok=v3IrGaz3) [### Patrice Dabrowski ](/people/patrice-dabrowski) Independent Scholar, Central and Eastern European History ![Patrice M. Dabrowski](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/dabrowski_p_1.png?itok=QYpCX3Hu) [### Markian Dobczansky ](/people/markian-dobczansky)Associate Director, European Union Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Independent Scholar, Soviet History ![Markian Dobczansky](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/dobczansky_image_1.jpg?itok=dcoSNZxE) [### Ines Garcia de la Puente ](/people/ines-garcia-de-la-puente) Senior Lecturer of Russian & Comparative Literature, Boston University ![Ines Garcia de la Puente](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-05/ines-headshot-600x600.jpg?h=91a4ff40&itok=9cqYHpkQ) [### Harvey Goldblatt ](/people/harvey-goldblatt) Emeritus Professor of Medieval Slavic Literatures, Yale University ![Picture of Harvery Goldblatt](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/harvey_goldblatt_100.jpg?itok=BnCtQIDT) [### Oksana Grabowicz ](/people/oksana-grabowicz) Independent Scholar, Anthropology & Culture ![Oksana Grabowicz](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/oksana-grabowicz.jpeg?itok=eC5wnSr6) [### Andrea Graziosi ](/people/andrea-graziosi) Professor of Modern History, Università di Napoli Federico II ![Andrea Graziosi](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/graziosi_a.jpg?itok=yoiaQln-) [### Patricia Kennedy Grimsted ](/people/patricia-kennedy-grimsted) Independent Scholar; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University ![Patricia Kennedy Grimsted](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/grimsted_p.jpg?itok=8sQB2Js7) [### Lubomyr Hajda ](/people/lubomyr-hajda) Associate Director, HURI, Emeritus ![L. Hajda](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/2009_07_21_hajda_birthday.jpg?itok=iNLHH--V) [### Tamara Hundorova ](/people/tamara-hundorova) Head of the Theory of Literature Department, Shevchenko Institute of Literature, NAS of Ukraine ![Tamara Hundorova](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/hundorova_t.jpg?itok=6FSBN_Ns) [### Svitlana Krasynska ](/people/svitlana-krasynska-0) Program Manager, MIT-Ukraine Independent Scholar, Civil Society and Democratization ![Svitlana Krasynska](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/krasynska_photo.jpg?itok=6TwxT1Zh) [### Volodymyr Kulyk ](/people/volodymyr-kulyk) [v\_kulyk@hotmail.com](mailto:v_kulyk@hotmail.com)Professor of Political Science at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) ![Volodymyr Kulyk](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/US%20visa%20picture%202024.jpg?itok=K9q6VOIw) [### Hiroaki Kuromiya ](/people/hiroaki-kuromiya) Emeritus Professor of History, Indiana University, Bloomington ![Hiroaki Kuromiya](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/kuromiya-h.jpg?itok=wneNc_Jv) [### John P. LeDonne ](/people/john-p-ledonne) Associate of the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University ![John LeDonne 2015 or 2016](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-03/John%20LeDonne%20%284%29.JPG?h=72be193b&itok=7llXMYEl) [### Askold Melnyczuk ](/people/askold-melnyczuk) Professor of English, University of Massachusetts Boston ![Askold Melnyczuk](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/melnyczuk_a_1.jpg?itok=pgEIcEKF) [### Thomas R. Mueller ](/people/thomas-mueller) MassGIS Deputy Director MAPA Educational Associate ![Tom Mueller ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-06/tom-mueller-2025.jpg?h=9e4b3525&itok=0gVUQDyw) [### Don Ostrowski ](/people/don-ostrowski) Lecturer, Harvard Extension School ![Don Ostrowski](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/don-ostrowski.jpg?itok=D4qjOhpt) [### Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern ](/people/yohanan-petrovsky-shtern) Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History, Department of History, Northwestern University ![Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/petrovsky-shtern_y.jpg?itok=7lTMJerX) [### Antony Polonsky ](/people/antony-polonsky) Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University Chief Historian, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw ![Antony Polonsky](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/polonsky_a.jpg?itok=kwHKU6xS) [### Carol R. Saivetz ](/people/carol-r-saivetz) Senior Advisor, Security Studies Program, MIT Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard ![Carol R. Saivetz](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/saivetz220.jpg?itok=StmPCHSN) [### Benjamin L. Schmitt ](/people/benjamin-l-schmitt) Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania ![BL Schmitt](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/b_l_schmitt_sais_event_headshot_square.jpg?itok=W_o_rKXv) [### Viktoriya Sereda ](/people/viktoriya-sereda-2)Head Coordinator of the Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Studies at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Senior Advisor of the project “Prisma Ukraïna: War, Migration and Memory” of the Forum Transregionale Studien ![Viktoriya Sereda](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-05/ViktoriyaSereda2025.jpg?h=36b68181&itok=BKoQncIm) [### Oxana Shevel ](/people/oxana-shevel) Associate Professor, Political Science, Tufts University ![Oxana Shevel](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/shevel_o_0.jpg?itok=mwF8UZnQ) [### George Soroka ](/people/soroka-george) Lecturer on Government and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University ![George Soroka](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/soroka_1.jpg?itok=C1pY07YF) [### Susana Torres Prieto ](/people/fellow-susana-torres-prieto-2021) Associate Professor, IE University ![Photo of Susana Torres Prieto](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-05/Torres%20Prieto.JPG?itok=moxDXFFJ) [### Susana Torres Prieto ](/people/susana-torres-prieto) Associate Professor of Humanities at IE University, Madrid, Spain ![Photo of Susana Torres Prieto](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-05/Torres%20Prieto.JPG?itok=moxDXFFJ) [### Lawrence Wolff ](/people/lawrence-wolff) Julius Silver Professor of History; Executive Director, Remarque Institute New York University; Co-Director, NYU Florence ![Larry Wolff](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/huri/files/wolff_l_1_0.jpg?itok=dnCcWi0o)