Center Fellows in Cooperation with the Institute for Human Sciences in 2024
02.07.2024
For the third time, the Institute for Human Sciences / Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna) in cooperation with the Center for Urban History is organizing a scholarship program for scholars from Ukraine. Within its framework, researchers work for several months on their topic at the Center for Urban History, have the opportunity to work with the Center's resources, visit local archival institutions and libraries, and have the opportunity to give a seminar or lecture.
In the spring, we launched a call for applications and as a result, five researchers received support and the opportunity to undertake an internship of three to six months. Such support and development of the research community in Ukraine is very valuable, especially in the context of the humanitarian crisis caused by Russia's full-scale invasion.
Iryna Spodenets
August – February 2024She graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture and received her PhD in Cultural Studies (in 2017). She is the head of the Museum Sector of the National Science Center “Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology” of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
During her residency at the Center she will study the newly discovered wall newspapers of the second half of the 1940s and 1980s from the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology. They are a unique source of information for studying the history of everyday life of the leading Ukrainian center of physical science and for understanding the specifics of the formation of the Pyatikhatka Academic Town around it.
Ilya Chedoluma
July – September 2024PhD in history, junior researcher at the Institute of Historical Research of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and a research fellow at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
During his residency at the Center Ilya Chedoluma will work on a project exploring the functioning of memory in various Ukrainian intellectual interwar environments about anti-Jewish violence during the revolutions and civil wars.
Viktor Drozdov
July – September 2024Associate Professor of the Department of History and Methods of Teaching it at Izmail State University of the Humanities, Chairman of the Danube Historical and Memorial Commission. Member of the National Union of Local History of Ukraine. In 2023, he completed his doctoral studies at Zaporizhzhia National University.
During his residency at the Center for Urban History with the support of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), he plans to research the tools of Stalin’s memorial policy in Western Ukrainian cities and find out its consequences for urban public space. His project offers a local perspective on Soviet memory policy during the Stalinist era as a system of methods aimed at cleansing the memorial space of symbols and artifacts that contradicted Soviet ideologies; and on constructing new memorial landscapes that reflected the official interpretation of the past.
Mykola Hlibishchuk
December 2024 – February 2025An assistant professor at the Department of World History at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. Mykola Hlibishchuk also works as a leading researcher at the Department of Modern Regional History at the Chernivtsi Regional Museum of Local History.
As part of his residency, he will work on the spy mania in Bukovyna during the First World War. The key focus will be on studying this phobia in multicultural border regions along the Eastern Front of the Great War of 1914-1918, and on the research perspective of fitting such local examples of particular areas into the more extensive Eastern European history of the First World War.
Oleksandr Kryvobok
January – March 2025He studied history at the Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State Pedagogical University. In 2009, he defended his PhD thesis on the political parties north of Left-Bank Ukraine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries at the Drahomanov National Pedagogical University (Kyiv). Since then, he has been working at Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University, where he has been an associate professor since 2012.
During his residence at the Center, Oleksandr Kryvobok plans to focus on collecting and comparing the diary records of World War I contemporaries’ observations of urban life during the war years. He also aims to make their testimonies actual for our generation and to provide an opportunity to compare them with the experience of the current war in Ukraine.
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