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Inside this issue: • U.S. Fulbright Scholars 2017-2018: host institutions; grant project goals; terms in Ukraine; contact information

Faculty and professional staff of aca- demic and educational Ukrainian institu- tions can identify U.S. Scholars to invite to their campuses for short-term visits by consulting the profiles of all U.S. Scholars in Ukraine for the current academic year. Institutions may contact scholars directly via e-mail addresses provided.

Institute of International Education • Office Fulbright Program in Ukraine

Esplanadna str, 20, office 904 Kyiv, 01001, Ukraine Tel: +380 (44) 287 07 77 [email protected] www.iie.org • www.fulbright.org.ua

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Ian Bateson Independent Journalist Journalism Research | Documenting Ukraine’s Changing National Identity National of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv [email protected] September 2017, 10 months

Ian Bateson is a journalist who has been for democracy and basic human rights, reporting from Ukraine since the Maidan especially the freedom to assemble and protests. He has contributed to the New the . That focus on York Times, and Foreign Policy values has allowed marginalized groups among others. The aim of his project is to like Muslim Crimean Tatars and the LGBT produce a book that aims to depict the community to win new acceptance because transformation of Ukrainian identity through of they also fight for those values. One descriptive reportage that gives readers a of the central issues is who the unifying sense of what it is like to be in Ukraine. heroes of the new Ukraine will be with neither World War II-era nationalist heroes The focus of the book is how the Maidan nor Soviet-era heroes spanning the divisions protests provided Ukraine with a new in Ukraine and representing the country’s national mythos rooted in the fight European aspirations.

Peter Straton Bejger Independent Writer/Filmmaker Area Studies Research | Building the City of Lions: The Architect Ivan Levynskyi and the Search for Identity in Fin-de-Siecle Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv/ Center for Urban History of East Central , Lviv [email protected] January 2018, 6 months

The architect Ivan Levynskyi was a builder in the city and surrounding region fundamental actor in creating a Lviv that of in the late 19th and early 20th is aesthetically captivating and culturally centuries. A Ukrainian by birth, he was at meaningful. Mr. Bejger’s research project the center of a cosmopolitan professional will explore how Levynskyi’s life and work milieu – training and collaborating with a helped to shape Lviv – a city of elegant generation of Polish architects who were density, propinquity, and architectural often commissioned by Austro-German heterogeneity within an alluring and or Jewish clients. Levynskyi was also a unifying visual fabric, a palimpsest philanthropist and community leader metropolis haunting the imaginations of all who navigated a complex sociopolitical those who encounter its complex heritage. arena contested by competing emerging Levynskyi, a professor at the Lviv nationalisms. His life ended tragically in the Polytechnic, became a noted developer/ violent aftermath of the First World War.

3 This multi-disciplinary creative project Levynskyi encountered in professional will be based on qualitative research life – the political and aesthetic tensions incorporating: visual investigations of the between national and international style, built environment created by Levynskyi and rustic vernacular and metropolitan motifs, his colleagues; interviews with specialists handicraft and industry, tradition vs. and scholars in Lviv; archival work; as well “progress” – and provide the framework for as translating relevant material. an future documentary film.

The resources of the Lviv Polytechnic, the Mr. Bejger researched and wrote a previous Center for Urban History of East Central documentary entitled A Kingdom Reborn: Europe, and other institutions will be Treasures from Ukrainian Galicia, a historic utilized to facilitate this consideration of overview of Lviv and the region through Levynskyi’s legacy. its art and architecture. This project will further contribute to an understanding of The research and on-site documentation the complex issues of place making in a will outline the challenging dualities fascinating crossroads of East .

Lisa M. Blank University of Montana, Missoula, MT Teacher Education Lecturing | Launching Education Reform from the Inside Out Kyiv Borys Hrinchenko University, Kyiv [email protected] October 2017, 3 months

Lisa Blank is a professor of science in advancing educational reform in their education at the University of Montana. classrooms, buildings, and communities. As a visiting instructor at Kyiv Borys She will also serve as a research mentor for Hrinchenko University she will teach students interested in pursuing research on a semester-long seminar and related teacher education, education reform, and workshops designed to support teachers teacher agency.

Betul C Czerkawski University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Education Technology Lecturing | Integrating Emerging Information and Communication Technologies into online Learning for Students and Instructors National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” [email protected] September 2017, 5 months

Dr. Czerkawski, an instructional design and of higher education and educational technology professor at the University of technologies, online learning offers students Arizona, will teach a course on emerging important opportunities for gaining 21st information and communication technologies century skills. Dr. Czerkawski’s course will (ICT) that will demonstrate strategies focus on blended and online settings that and techniques to integrate ICTs into present flexible learning opportunities by online learning environments. Given the providing individualized learning, remote accelerating changes in the landscape access, online collaborations, meaningful

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assessments and solutions to the complex in nature. The professional development issues of traditional learning environments. seminars strongly focus on new pedagogical Some of the topics include learning analytics, approaches that can be used within flipped learning, computational thinking, technology-rich environments. learning spaces, educational programming, OERs ( Resources), data Although technology in education has many visualization tools for educators, and MOOCs. benefits, it also presents many issues and problems, including repeating inequalities Dr. Czerkawski will also offer various in the modern societies, copyright issues, professional development seminars and or unethical practices, so it is equally workshops for the faculty members teaching important to recognize its limitations and in the Education Programs on the same shortcomings. Dr. Czerkawski’s lectures for subject. Although the proposal is geared both students and faculty will adapt a critical towards teacher education students and approach towards technology concepts, faculty, other academic disciplines within the tools and implementations so both Education College will also benefit from the benefits and issues with various emerging course since the content is interdisciplinary technologies could be understood.

David Gracon Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL American Studies/Media Studies Lecturing | Media Literacy Now! Using Critical Media/Film Studies and Digital Practices as Tools to Critique Contemporary American Society Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk [email protected] September 2017, 10 months

Working collaboratively alongside the which will be applicable to Ukrainian media students at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian systems as well. They will produce their own National University, Dr. Gracon’s mission media and by watching it circulate and they with media literacy, or the ability to critically will learn about media criticism/literacy by and actively “read” American media actively doing it. texts such as film, television, advertising campaigns, radio, music and social media Dr. Gracon firmly believes that the ability to will challenge students to question how the critically “read” the media is as important as media is constructed, by whom, and for traditional reading and writing skills. To not what purposes. He wants his students to have media literacy skills in contemporary question the common taken-for-grantedness society (in the USA or Ukraine) is to of their construction and how media is a perpetuate an uncritical, uninformed and tool that reproduces the socio-political passive society. When a population is easily status quo, however, it can also be used susceptible to manipulation and easily to challenge power relations and promote duped by various ideologies (political, democratic social change. economic, consumerist etc.), it is difficult to have a functioning democracy. This simply The Ukrainian students will learn how to will not do and Dr. Gracon’s aim is constantly critically analyze American media texts, teach against media illiteracy.

5 Jason D. Hans University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY Social and Behavior Sciences Lecturing | Professional Development Training and Mentoring Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University, Odesa [email protected] September 2017, 10 months

Dr. Hans is a family scientist (more but they signify a meaningful and rigorous generally, a social scientist) and currently step forward for Ukrainian academics as serves as Editor of Family Relations: the Bologna process unfolds – that is, as Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Ukraine replaces its Soviet model of higher Science, which is the premier applied education with uniform European standards. journal of family science. His Fulbright Successful implementation of these reforms project is to develop research, statistical, will go a long way toward advancing and preparation skills higher education and academia in Ukraine. among advanced graduate students and However, conversations with Ukrainian professors. graduate students and professors during and since Dr. Hans’ previous Fulbright Scholar The impetus for this project began when experience in Ukraine (2010–2011), as well as the Ministry of Education and Science of his professional experiences (e.g., as editor Ukraine issued a new directive in 2012 of one of those internationally recognized requiring at least one authored publication journals, and mentoring Ukrainian doctoral in a recognized international (Western) students), indicate that many Ukrainian to earn a Candidate of scholars lack the requisite methodological, Science degree (roughly the equivalent of a statistical, and manuscript preparation Ph.D. in ), and three additional skills to meet the Ministry’s ambitious authored publications in recognized expectation. Thus, Dr. Hans will share his international (Western) scientific journals skills and experiences to better prepare to earn the Doctor of Science designation Ukrainian scholars for success in their quest (roughly the equivalent of earning tenure to conduct and publish research that meets in the United States). These expectations the expectations of Western scholars and may seem low by Western standards, journals.

Angela Kachuyevski Arcadia University, Glenside, PA Political Science Lecturing/Research | Russian-Speaking : Shifting Identity Boundaries and the Idea of ‘the Nation’ V.N. Karazin National University, Kharkiv [email protected] February 2018, 5 months

Nationalism and national identity can events or even who properly constitutes provide the basis for societal unity, yet the national. In post-Soviet societies, the in divided societies the national identity ongoing nation-(re)building exercise has itself is contested. That is, there is no faced additional challenges as efforts to (re) accepted vision or understanding of the constitute the nation-state have sometimes nation, its interests, formative historical come into conflict with ’s own efforts

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to simultaneously construct a distinctly been impacted by the annexation of Russian national identity, while also and the ongoing conflict in has not asserting a “Russian World” that transcends been fully explored. Russia’s current territorial boundaries. The Russian-speaking populations living Based in Kharkiv, Dr. Kachuyevski will in states neighboring Russia have been an conduct elite interviews and focus group issue of academic interest since the collapse discussions in three large Ukrainian cities of the , yet increased Russian where the majority language is Russian: assertiveness and recent events in Ukraine , Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk to have stirred renewed academic interest in explore how Russian-speaking Ukrainians identity issues among the Russian-speaking view their place within post-Maidan Ukraine, populations of the region. and the impact conflict with Russia and ongoing de-communization efforts have Dr. Kachuyevski draws upon existing poll had on their sense of the nation, and their and survey data and undertakes additional perceived place within it. The goal of the qualitative research to explore how Russian- research is to contribute to a deeper and speaking Ukrainians perceive their place more nuanced understanding of processes within Ukraine, especially given the context of the securitization and de-securitization of Maidan, the Association Agreement with of core identity issues in Ukraine today, the , and the resulting conflict including preferred language, shared with Russia. Ukraine has long had regional historical memory and cultural sense of divisions in terms of language preference belonging. That is, the project will explore and geopolitical orientation, a topic that has how these identity issues have become received a good deal of attention. Yet, how a matter of national security, or how, salient these divisions are and how they have alternatively, they have been de-politicized.

Oksana Malanchuk Retired, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Social Psychology/History Research | A Tale of Two Cities: Lviv and , Ukraine Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv [email protected] September 2017, 10 months

Dr. Malanchuk first visited Lviv in 1993-94 and the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict. during which time she taught a year-long Dr. Malanchuk, a social psychologist, will be course on contemporary Ukraine where the writing a book with Dr. Yaroslav Hrytsak, a students collected and analyzed survey data historian at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv and Donetsk on attitudes toward in Lviv, that synthesizes the 23 years of independence, social identities, feelings research on Ukraine’s two polarized cities about Russia and nationalism. Since then she within the broader context of Ukraine and and her collaborators have continued doing Eastern Europe in which they will discuss the surveys along the same lines every five character of Ukrainian regionalism and its years, culminating in a series of five surveys political implications, as well as its change which cover the course of two revolutions over time.

7 The main focus of the book will be has undergone different transformations regionalism and social identities, including during that time. An important question nationalidentity. They will seek to define will be whether there has been a further and explain these concepts as they play development in Ukrainian identity since out over time in both Lviv and Donetsk, in 2013/14 and if so, in which and in other cities where they have regions and among which populations (e.g., evidence, within the larger national and the young). Have the majority since the comparative international context. They war become more national patriots or pro- will also introduce concepts such as western liberals or something in between? values, which have been largely ignored in previous studies on Ukraine, and which can A strength of this research is the planned contribute substantially to a more adequate cooperation between a social scientist and understanding of recent Ukrainian a historian. Social scientists can provide developments, including the 2013/14 analysis of a snapshot of political and Euromaidan events. social attitudes and events but historians are needed to give perspective and They will also examine the meaning of underline the relevance of the analysis to national identity, its strength among today’s problems. Combining both efforts the Ukrainian population and its relative helps avoid the shortsightedness that is components in different parts of Ukraine. characteristic of the humanities and social They will review the evolution of Ukrainian sciences and the failure to account for identity over the post-Soviet period current events that is a feature of much to the present, determining whether it historical work.

Louise McReynolds University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC History Research | Excavating Empire: Archeology and the ‘All-Russian Idea,’ 1804-1924 Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv [email protected] September 2017, 3 months

Professor McReynolds is writing a history Kyiv’s St. Vladimir University (f. 1834) and of the evolution of archeology into an New Russia University (f. 1865, Odesa) academic discipline in the social sciences educated such luminaries as Nikodim throughout the course of the 19th century. Kondakov, who revolutionized the study With a focus on the , of icons. In Kyiv, Volodymyr Antonovych several Ukrainians and their excavations trained two generations of archeologists and position themselves at the center of her founded the influential Society of Nestor research, and along the borderlands where the Chronicler. Other extremely important boundaries constantly shifted across archaeologists include Khvedir Vovk who, Belarus, Poland, and Lithuania. Ukraine exiled from Ukraine for political reasons, played a fundamental part in all aspects studied in France and returned after the of imperial archeology: territorially, it 1905 Revolution to propogate his mentor encompassed not only the first capital in Gabriel de Mortillet’s controversial ideas Kyiv, but, equally important, the sites of about the role of archeology in establishing the ancient Greek trading colonies and both racial and national identities. Vikentii “Herodotus’s Scythia”; institutionally, The Chvoika became internationally renowned Odesa Society of History and Antiquities for his discovery the Neolithic Cucuteni- (f. 1839) stood out as one of the most Trypillian settlements around Kyiv that are influential of the regional organizations; still today providing information on the early

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origins of European civilizations. Two of the of North Carolina’s Digital Innovation Lab few females noteworthy in the profession, and developing a web-based platform Kateryna Melnyk, who married Antonovych for the presentation and curation of the in 1902, and Alexandra Efimenko, also major digs across the empire. Combining made essential discoveries in archeology the traditional with the digital, she can in Ukraine. Moreover, five of the empire’s make a substantive contribution to the fifteen archeological congresses were historiography of the effects of archeology held in Ukraine; two of the congresses’ on notions of both nation and empire. most prolific organizers, Egor Redin and Moreover, collaborating with scholars at the Dmytro Bahalii, were renowned Ukrainian Institute of History of the Ukrainian Academy nationalists. of Sciences will allow her to expand her data . The georeferenced map is currently The ultimate objective of McReynolds’s under construction: https://blacksea. work is to analyze the role of archeology web.unc.edu/. In addition, the digital in brokering the competing visions of platform Prospect allows her to situate “nationalism” and “imperialism” in Tsarist the archeologists within a professional Russia. Writing a scholarly monograph that network, which will permit the visualization highlights the role that archeology played of the multiple interactions they enjoyed in in this competition, she will devote time to imperial spaces; once again, Ukraine remains reading the personal papers of the above- central to the project because literally every mentioned scholars. In addition, she is important figure spent time either studying coordinating with scholars at the University or excavating there.

Rachel Stevens New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM Art Research | Forest Grows in the Synagogue: Reimagining the Galician Jewish Landscape through Sculpture Lviv National Academy of Art, Lviv/ Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv [email protected] January 2018, 5 months

In western Ukraine few obvious features Galicia in order to locate and emotionally of Galicia’s Jewish culture remain, as the respond to the region’s rich, but visually Holocaust effectively erased Jews from cryptic, Jewish history. She will divide her the region’s human geography. However, time between fieldwork in the towns and remnants of Jewish culture can still be seen countryside, and studio work in Lviv, where in the Ukrainian landscape. Rachel Stevens’ she will also collaborate with the Lviv National Fulbright will focus on creating sculptures Academy of Arts and the Center of Urban based on these sites and sharing them History of East Central Europe. Through her with Ukrainian and American audiences. research, she will begin a body of artwork Her proposal is an artistic embodiment that will serve as a secondary witness to the of a Hebrew term, tikkun olam, often Holocaust. Through her interactions with understood as a call to repair the world. the landscape, architecture, and community Ms. Stevens will engage in a qualitative members, she will visually transcribe the geographic exploration of former eastern vernacular fragments of Galicia’s rich

9 Jewish history into new artworks. These Rachel Stevens is committed to fostering shards may survive as ruined synagogues, collaboration with the communities where cemeteries, monuments, land use patterns, she conducts her research and furthering forest patches, artworks, archival records, multicultural understanding. She hopes memories, and mental maps. The latter will to establish a long-term relationship with be of particular significance, as cognitive people in western Ukraine, similar to what cartography – how regions persist within occurred with the Newari people of Nepal people’s imaginations long after they during and after her Fulbright there in 2006. disappear from atlases – will be a focus of the project.

Jessica Zychowicz University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Area Studies Lecturing/Research | Lifting the Digital Iron Curtain: A Social and Cultural History of the Red Web National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv [email protected] September 2017, 10 months

Dr. Jessica Zychowicz is a cultural and What these stories can tell us today about gender studies scholar who will focus how we communicate, more and more her Fulbright research on mid-late Soviet often through the assistance of technology, culture(s) of informatics while teaching forms the basis of Dr. Zychowicz’s Fulbright courses at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in the project, which explores how tech innovation Department of Sociology and School of shapes social relations, and vice versa. She Journalism. She will collaborate with her aims to provide a comprehensive look at colleague Dr. Tamara Martsenyuk at Kyiv- the people and their stories – especially Mohyla on extending new media resources women scientists, workers, and state officials available for the teaching of gender – who under the planned Soviet economy in studies, and others in Kyiv working in the the late-20th century managed to achieve field of contemporary visual production. Internet technology that laid the foundation for systems now considered to be at the In media and information studies, the apex of global commerce and governance. term network carries with it a multitude of meanings. The word itself has roots in While in Ukraine, Dr. Zychowicz will collect the textile industry of lacework, and like materials in the state archives that have the Jacquard loom, describes a range been made publicly available for the of functions in computing. Yet the word first time, as well as oral interviews with network, or сеть in Soviet Ukrainian and managers and designers who worked Russian usage, once included additional in Soviet technological institutes. She concepts such as base, complex, cluster, anticipates the project will result in a and system. The translation of these terms book. The knowledge gained will also into wider social and cultural contexts since aid in her future endeavors in linking her the 1950s-60s postwar era has enjoyed a expertise across initiatives for the study of rich and interesting transatlantic exchange contemporary Ukraine at the University of of inquiry around theories that attempted Alberta, University of Toronto, University of to describe organizational patterns in Michigan, and others. computing, management, economics, and society – some fiercely opposed by scholars on purely ideological grounds.

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