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] Read more
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Research residences

Martyna Miernecka

University of Warsaw
The House of Creative Work as an Eastern and Central European Phenomenon on the Example of the Polish Center in Obory (1948-2015). Place – Practices – Narratives – Memory

Chris Kostov

IE University, Madrid, Spain
Soviet Propaganda and the Russification of Lviv, 1939-41, 1944-1954

Anna Kaluher

The Modern Art Research Institute
Art Criticism in Ukraine in 2000-2020: historical representation in writings on art

Jan Rybak

Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Jews under Arms: State, Community, Self-Defence and the Transformation of East-Central Europe

Wiktor Marzec

University of Warsaw
Tiered Urban Publics of the Borderland Empire

Michael Corsi

Michael Corsi
A Metropolis of Metal: Urbanization and the Rise of Russia’s Industrial Heartland, 1887-1945

Richard Mills

University of East Anglia
Racing at the Margins: Motorcycle Speedway, Transnational Encounters, and Provincial Heartlands

Atsuto Anzai

University of Tokyo, University of Wroclaw
Peri-urban Agriculture of Galician Jewry and Ethnic Marketing 1867-1939

Olha Martynyuk

National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
Bicycle Mobility in Ukraine (1890-1990)
Digital Urban History Residence Grant

Ayelet Eva Herbst

Ayelet Eva Herbst
Escaping the Lemberg Ghetto and Janowska Camp: Surviving the Holocaust in Lviv

Michał Narożniak

European University Institute
Intellectual Meets a Country-Girl: Social Contexts of Sexual Knowledge Formation, L'viv 1890-1914
In cooperation with the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna)

Yevhen Horb

independent researcher, historian
Documenting Experiences of War

Alla Petrenko-Lysak

Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University
War Сomes to Home: the Image of the Home at the Time of War

Anastasiya Platonova

cultural studies critic, journalist, editor, culture analyst
Unwinding Empire

Daria Badior

critic, editor, journalist
Unwinding Empire
In cooperation with the University of Lund

Maria Gryshchenko

Center for Urban Studies
Documenting Experiences of War

Roman Moldavskyi

historian
Documenting Experiences of War

Serhii Pakhomenko

Mariupol State University
Documenting Experiences of War
Supported by Free University of Berlin

Valentyna Shevchenko

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of the History of Ukraine
Documenting Experiences of War

Artem Kharchenko

National Technical University "KhPI" of Kharkiv
Documenting Experiences of War
Supported by Körber-Stiftung

Volodymyr Masliychuk

National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
The Long Century: Quality of Life of the Left Bank Ukraine in 1764 – 1914

Iryna Piatnytskova

Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University
Vasyl Nahirnyi in Creating the Space of Modern Lviv / Documenting War Experiences
Supported by the Foundation for Jewish Studies in Wroclaw

Albert Venger

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
"In the Chain of Perpetrators": The Holocaust and Its Accomplices in Psychiatric Hospitals and Houses for People with Disabilities in Reichkommissariat Ukraine