Making of Modern Ukraine: History and Interpretations  
 

BORN : January 1, 1960, Dovhe, Stryi county, Lviv region,Ukraine 

EDUCATION: Ivan Franko Lviv State University, 1977-1982 

DISCIPLINE: History 

DEGREE: Ph.D. (candidate), history, Lviv University, 1987 

Ph.D. (habilitation), history, Institute of Archeography, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, 1996 
 

POSITION 

1982-1992 - Institute of Social Sciences, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, senior research associate 

1992 - up to this time --Institute for Historical Research, Lviv University, Director 

1994 - up to this time -- docent, chair of Slavic countries’ history, department of history, Lviv State University 

1996 - up to this time Central European University in Budapest, Historical Department, visiting professor 
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS  

History of Austrian Galicia; Modern History of Ukraine; Nationalism in Eastern Europe; Modern Eastern European Historiography 

PUBLICATIONS 

a) author of books: 

1.’The Spirit that Moves to Battle...’ An attempt of a political portrait of Ivan Franko (1856-1916) (Lviv, 1990, in Ukrainian); 

2. Essays in Ukrainian History: Making of Modern Ukrainian Nation (Kyiv, 1996, in Ukrainian) 

b) editor and translator 

Ivan L. Rundnytsky, 'Historical Essays', vol.1-2 (Kyiv, 1994, in Ukrainian, editor and translator) 

c) Co-editor of 18 books, proceedings of conferences, collections of essays 

Ivan Franko. Collected Works. Vol. 46. Historical Essays. (Kyiv, 1986) 

Rusalka Dnistrova. Documents and Materials (Kyiv, 1989). 

Worker Movement in Ukraine, 1884-1894. Documents and Materials (Kyiv, 1990). 

Mykhajlo Hrushevskyj and Lviv historical school. Material of the conference (Lviv, 1995) 

Making of Ukrainian Nation: History and Interpretations. ( Lviv, 1995) 

Modern Ukraine. Annual of the Institute for Historical Research. No 1, 2-3(Lviv, 1997, 1999). 

Mappa Mundi. Collection of essays in honor of Yaroslav Dashkevych (Lviv-Kyiv-New York, 1996) and others 

d) author of two hundred articles, essays and book reviews (full bibliography available at request). 
 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS  

"Ivan Franko and World Culture” (Lviv, 1986) 

“Georgij Plekhanov and His Philosophical Legacy” (Leningrad, 1988) 

“Ukrainian Political Thought in the XX Century” (Krakow, 1990) 

“Ukraine and the West” (Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1991) 

“The Galician Triangle: Jews, Poles, Ukrainians in Austrian Empire“ (Vienna, 1992) 

"Russian-Ukrainian Encounters in XIX Century" (New York, 1994) 

"Galicia: A Regional Identity?" (Aarhus Universty, Denmark, 1998) 

"The War and the Holocaust in the Collective Memory of Jews, Germans, Poles, Ukrainians and Lithuanians" (Ben-Gurion University, 1998) and others 

 
GUEST LECTURES  

Invited guest lecturer at Harvard University, University of Michigan, Waine State University, University of Alberta, New School for Social Research (New York), Cansas State University, University of Toronto (1991-1997) 
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE  

Lviv State University, Modern History of Ukraine(1990-1999); 

Lviv State University,Modern History of Jewish-Ukrainain Relations (1993) 

Columbia University Summer School, Making of Modern Ukraine (1994) 

Central European University in Budapest, Making of Modern Ukraine(1996-1999) 

Central European University in Budapest, Western Borderlands of Russian Empire in XIX century (1996-1999) 

 
PROJECTS' DIRECTOR  

"Ukrainian National Revival in Austrian Galicia: Comparative Characteristics of National Patriots' Groups" (1993-1996, funded by the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research, University of Alberta) 

"East and West of Ukraine: Comparison of Social Identities and Group Loyalties" (1994, funded by the International Fond 'Renaissance', Ukrainian branch of the Soros Foundation) 

"A Tale of Two Cities: Ethnic and Interconfessional Relations on the Ukrainian-Polish Border" (funded by the Research Support Scheme, Soros Foundation; 1996-1998) 

  
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS  

1993 - Shevchenko Scientific Society, full member 

1997 - Fulbright Program Research Fellowship (University of Michigan) 

1998 - Award by magazine "Przeglad Wschodni" (Warsaw) for the best foreign book on Eastern Europe 

  
CIVIC ACTIVITY  

1987-1988 - head, council of young scholars, Institute for Social Sciences, Lviv 

1988-1989 - head, Lviv Association of Young Historians 

1989 - member, Lviv regional council of "Rukh" organization 

1993- up to this time, head, civic organization "Lviv Democracy Seminar" 

1994 - up to this time, head, historical comission,. Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv 

1996-1998 - member, Board, International "Renaissance" organization 

1999 - up to this time, vice-president, International Association for Ukrainian Studies 

  
SPEAKING KNOWLEDGE  

English, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian 

  
READING KNOWLEDGE  

German, French 

MARITAL STATUS  

Married, two children