Residences

The Center offers residence programs and hosts research fellows and student interns for establishing and continuing communication across different disciplines, geographies and stages. The Center's Residence Program is designed to encourage, promote, and support research and reflections on urban history and urban experiences in Eastern and Central Europe. The Center also hosts individual long-term research fellowships and student internships in cooperation with other institutions and programs.

The Residence Program contributes to the Center’s academic life, and more generally, enhances cooperation between scholars within and beyond Ukraine. This format reflects one of the Center’s aims of bridging different disciplines as well as different geographies. Over more than ten years this program supporting research on the region has taken different shapes, ranging from research and travel grants, cooperation with the IWM (Vienna) for the Junior Fellowship for Scholars from Ukraine, to finally developing an extended Residence Program. So far the Center has welcomed more than one hundred researchers from Ukraine, the United States, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Switzerland, Romania, and China.

This program is open for researchers of various fields in the humanities from different countries. We welcome applications that offer broad interpretations of urban history as a discipline at the intersection of various approaches of humanities and social sciences. The chronological and geographical frames of the proposed research are limited to the 19th and 20th-century history of East and Central Europe. Preference is given to topics related to the Center’s research focuses, including such themes as urbanization in multi-ethnic cities, individual experience of city residents during 20th-century radical changes and wars, planned cities, urban heritage, commemorative practices in cities, infrastructure and cultural practices in the cities, public history and urban spaces. One of the recent developments for our residency program is a focus on digital history open for applications employing digital techniques to develop a theme under research (such as but not exclusively, databases, the geo-information systems, network analysis, and digital storytelling) and reflecting on digital archiving and new approaches in evaluating, contextualizing, representing, and using various archival media.

Currently the Center has three residency programs:
• research residency for young scholars, working on their PhD thesis or preparing them for publishing (up to 1 month);
• research residency for advanced scholars (up to 2 weeks);
• digital urban history residency in cooperation with the Lviv Interactive project and the Urban Media Archive (up to 1 month)

Within the residency program the Center provides accommodation at our guest apartments, offers access to our materials, such as the library, the Urban Media Archive and assists in facilitating research in archives in Lviv, as well as scholarly contacts. We also provide the opportunity to discuss the preliminary results of research within the Urban Seminar or present in the format of a public lecture.

The Center is a regular hosting institution for the fellows within the programs of international exchange, such as the Fulbright Program, as well as individual internships for undergraduate students and PhD students from universities in Ukraine and internationally. Dr. Mayhill Fowler was a postdoc fellow in 2011 working on her first book project and teaching at the UKU and returned as a Fulbright Scholar in 2019/2020 with a new research project in cooperation with our focus on cultural infrastructures.

Dr. Diana Vonnak was a pre-doctoral research fellow in 2015 with the support of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Sarah Grandke had her internship at the Center in 2015 as a master’s student from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The Center has developed a lasting cooperation with the Fulbright Program. Within this program we were happy to host and work with Ashley Bigham (2013/14), Peter Bejger (2017/18), Prof. Rachel Stevens (2017/18), Marla Raucher Osborne (2019/20), Ryan Wolfe (2019/2020). The Center cherishes the possibility to have internships for students. A fruitful and ongoing programs of student internships are developed in cooperation with universities in Lviv, in particular Ukrainian Catholic University’s program in history, cultural studies, and media studies.

For more information about Residence Program or possible internship please contact the Center's program manager, Maryana Mazurak at [email protected]

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Research residences

Julia Elena Grieder University of Basel: Defying Soviet Assimilation: Non-Titular Minorities in Post- Stalinist Transcarpathia and Lviv

Andrii Petrash National Reserve "Davnii Halych": "Galicia Occulta": Esoteric Ideas in the Galician Cultural Environment (1772-1939)

Kayla Hilstob Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada: Assembling and Disassembling Nortel Networks in Eastern and Central Europe

Nataliya Tchermalykh Interdisciplinary Center for Children's Rights Research at the University of Geneva: Shifting Landscapes: an Anthropology of Art and War

Kateryna Volochniuk University of St Andrews: The Shepeliuk Archive: Re-examining Ukrainian Industrial Heritage Through Soviet Photojournalism

Volodymyr Masliychuk National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy: The City Before Industrialization: New Spaces and Traditional Relationships

John C. Swanson University of Tennessee at Chattanooga: Lili Jacob, Bilky, and the Auschwitz Album: A Triple Biography

Érika Nimis Artist and researcher: Lychakivsky Cemetery, a Place of Histories

Artem Kharchenko I. P. Kotliarevsky Kharkiv National University of Arts: Childhood on the Street, 1920s-1930s

Viktoriia Grivina University of St. Andrews: Vulnerable Legacies and Green Re-Imaginings in Kharkiv, Ukraine

Fellowship Program of the Center for Urban History and INDEX

Natalie Nougayrède journalist: Storytelling and Sharing the Experiences of War

In cooperation with the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna)

Viktor Drozdov Izmail State University of the Humanities: (De) Constructing the Past: Transformation of Public Space and Commemorative Practices in Western Ukrainian Cities during the Years of Stalinism

Oleksandr Kryvobok Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University: Urban Space in Eastern Europe during the First World War from the Perspective of Diaries.

Ilya Chedoluma Institute of Historical Research, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv / Ukrainian Catholic University: Images of Anti-Jewish Violence in the Ukrainian Interwar Texts and Memories of the Revolution 1917–1923

Mykola Hlibishchuk Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University: Phobias on the Borderlands: Espionage in Bukovyna during the First World War

Iryna Spodenets The National Science Center "Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Wall Newspapers of the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology as a Source of Everyday History (Second Half of the 1940s – 1980s)

Supported by the Universities UK International

Vasyl Tkachenko Artist: Working with the Film Camera of Heorhii Kotelnikov