Stipendienprogramm des Historischen Seminars für ukrainische Historiker*innen
Anlässlich des Krieges in der Ukraine hat das Historische Seminar der Universität für Wissenschaftler*innen aus der Ukraine ein Stipendienprogramm ins Leben gerufen, um Ihnen in unsicheren Zeiten Sicherheit und freie Forschung bieten zu können. Derzeit profitieren drei Historikerinnen von diesem Programm und arbeiten und forschen am Historischen Seminar als unsere Gäste. Hier möchten wir sie und ihre Arbeit vorstellen:
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of World History at Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University.
“In 2007, I defended my doctoral thesis with the topic ‘Ukrainian Insurgent Rear (second half of 1943–beginning of 1946)’. Since 2011, I have been a professor at the Department of World History and Law at Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University. My research interests focus on the theory and practice of Stalinism. Within this framework, I work on the following topics: socio-political transformations in the rural society of Ukraine during late Stalinism, the Ukrainian national liberation movement of the 1940s, the party nomenclature of late Stalinism, gender policy of the Soviet government during Stalinism. In Zhytomyr, I run a research laboratory studying the Soviet past of the Stalin era at the university. As part of his, a large amount of memoirs of rural women in the region about their lives in the 1930s and 1940s has been collected and analyzed. Based on these materials, numerous articles were prepared on the problems of the gender policy of the Stalinist regime and the daily life in the Ukrainian countryside in late Stalinism. As part of the scholarship program of the Historical Seminar of the WWU Münster, I plan to study women's experiences of survival in crisis periods in the history of Eastern Europe.”
Professor at the History Department of the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv).
“I defended my Doctor of Science dissertation in 2019 at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv on the topic "Anthropology of Towns and Town Law in the Ruthenian Lands of the Crown of Poland, 14th-17th centuries." My research interests include the history of medieval and early modern cities, the spread of Magdeburg law in East-Central Europe, historiography and source studies, and the history of Ukraine during the Polish-Lithuanian era. I am the head of the Historical and Anthropological Seminar at the History Department of UCU and the co-head of the Ukrainian-Polish seminar "Cities of East-Central Europe in the 14th-18th centuries" (with Prof. Agnieszka Bartoszewicz (Warsaw University)). I had research fellowships at Harvard, Kraków, Warsaw, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (University of Alberta) and some other universities and the German Historical Institute in Warsaw etc. I have published several dozens of research articles and a number of books, including Municipal Self-government in the Ukrainian Lands in the14th-16th Centuries (2000), Essays on the History of Magdeburg Law in Ukraine in the 14th – Mid-17th Century (2002), Textbook on the History of Ukraine during the Lithuanian-Polish Era (2011), Custom and Rights: Sources, Commentary, Studies: in Two Volumes (vol. 1: The Anthropology of Towns and Town Law in the Ruthenian Lands from the 14th to the Mid-17th Century (2019), vol. 2: Towns and Municipal Self-government in Ukraine, 14th – Mid-17th Century: Collection of Documents (forthcoming)). I have co-authored the collective monograph Remembering the Jagiellonians (Routledge, 2019) (chapter 8 "The Jagiellonians in Ukrainian Traditions") and the manual for students of grades 10-11 Together on One Land: Multicultural History of Ukraine (2014). Thanks to the support of the University of Münster, I have the opportunity to work on the problem "The influence of Renaissance Humanism on the legal ideas of townspeople in the Ruthenian lands of the Crown of Poland in the 15th – first half of the 17th century". It is a part of a broader study of burghers' legal consciousness in the Ruthenian lands of Poland and Lithuania in the 14th-17th centuries.”
Prof. Dr. Nataliya Gorodnia
Professor at the the Faculty of History of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
“I have been teaching at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of History, since 2001. My major teaching interests include Modern and contemporary history of European nations and the United States, U.S. foreign policy, international relations, and history of Asian countries in 19-21th centuries. I also taught courses on Ukraine’s history and culture at National Aviation University and Military Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine), Istanbul University (Istanbul, Republic of Turkey), and University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI, United States).
My research interests cover three major areas: 1) U.S. foreign policy, and America’s role in the international system; 2) post-Cold War regional processes in the “greater East Asia” and Indo-Pacific; and 3) Ukrainian revolutions of the 20th and 21st centuries. I defended Ph.D. thesis “The Entente Nations and the U.S. Policies on the Statehood of Ukraine in 1917–1919” and Doctor of Sciences thesis “The U.S. Regional Policy in East Asia (1989–2013)” in 1996 and 2014, respectively. As a visiting scholar at the WWU, Historical Seminar, I am affiliated with the Department of Modern and Contemporary History / North American History (Prof. Dr. Heike Bungert), and I study Ukraine factor in 1975-1991 U.S. policy towards the Soviet Union.”
