Andrea Graziosi

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 Use, and Consequences

Graziosi began research for this major book project, tentatively called Equalities and Differences: History through Human Classifications and Identities, Their Use, and Consequences, in 2011. Since 2025, work on the project has focused on writing up more than a decade of research. Ukrainian history plays a significant role in the final part, which focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries. In it, Graziosi expands on the themes explored in his 2016 essay for a collection edited by Prof. Plokhy and published by HURI, "Viewing the Twentieth Century through the Prism of Ukraine" (Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. 34).

State Legitimization Discourses in Ukraine, Russia, and the European Union 

This is a new essay project launched immediately after the 2022 full-scale invasion. It comparatively considers the Ukrainian and Russian post-1991 developments, but also the European Union, as well as the Italian and German experiences, especially after 1945.

Biography

Andrea Graziosi (1954) is an emeritus professor of history at the Università di Napoli Federico II and a past president of the Italian Society for the Study of Contemporary History (2007-11) and of Italy’s National Authority for the Evaluation of Universities and Research (2014-2018). He is an associé of the Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (Paris) and an associate of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Among his publications are Histoire de l’URSS (Paris, 2011; Bologna, 2012; Moscow, 2016); Lettres de Kharkov. La famine en Ukraine, 1932-33 (Paris 1989 and 2013; Torino 1991; Kyiv 2007); The Great Soviet Peasant War, 1917-1933 (Cambridge, Ma, 1997; Napoli, 1998; Moscow, 2008); Guerra e rivoluzione in Europa, 1905-1956 (Bologna, 2001; Kyiv; and Moscow, 2005); The Battle for Ukrainian (Cambridge, Ma, 2017) with Michael Flier; and Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept (Montreal 2022), with Frank Sysyn. He founded and coedited in Moscow, up to 2010, the series Dokumenty sovetskoi istorii, and is a regular contributor on foreign policy in major Italian newspapers and media.