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 deputy director, Maryana Mazurak at m.mazurak@lvivcenter.org

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Research residences

Jean-Philippe Miller-Tremblay Studienzentrums zur Kunst der Moderne und Gegenwart of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (Munich): Documenting the Life Paths of Objects Made from Weapons in Ukraine since the Beginning of Russia's Full-Scale Invasion (February 2022 – Present)

Volha Biziukova Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews: Times of Polycrisis in the UK and Europe. Points of Return and Recovery

Olena Chervonik Museum of the Kharkiv School of Photography, University of Oxford: The Workers' Photography Movement (1929-1939) in Ukraine

Nataliia Biriuk Modern Art Research Institute of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine: Extractivist Practices of Soviet Socialism: Industry, Technology, and Nature in Ukrainian Visual Culture of the Late 1920s–1930s

Katarzyna Krakowska University of Lodz: War and Forced Emigration in the Autobiographical Narratives of Ukrainian Women Over 60 Who Found Themselves in Poland

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

In cooperatin with UCORE

Nadiia Pastukh independent researcher: From Coding to Archiving: Analyzing Transcripts of War Testimonies

LivArch Fellowships in War Documentation and Archiving

Alona Bilokon Regional GCIP Acceleration Center for Innovation, Technology, and Startups in the Mykolaiv Region of Ukraine.: Ethical and Legal Considerations Regarding the Archiving of Confidential Energy Data During Wartime

Roman Koval NGO "Truth Hounds": The Impact of the Requirement for Evidentiality on the Structure of Sources and Its Implications for Understanding Facts and for Historical Writing

Hanna Drobot Independent online media "Tochka Shodу": Analysis and Systematization of Interviews with Families of Prisoners of War, Civilian Detainees, and Persons Missing in Action (2024–2026)

Olha Opalenko NGO Truth Hounds: Living Archives of War: From Fragmentation to Communication

Myroslava Smolnitska Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.: Spatial Metadata in Oral Accounts of the War

Oleksandr Holovko M. T. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics, and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Sensitive Data in Accounts of the Full-Scale Russian-Ukrainian War: Practices of (Non)Representation in Domestic Source Publications and Online Platforms

Kateryna Homeniuk Archives Department of the Bucha City Council: Voices of Bucha: A Digital Memory Archive

Olexandr Kolomyichuk M. T. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics, and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Empathy in the "Field" of the Current Russian-Ukrainian War: From Documentation to the Publication of Testimonies

Yevhen Vorozheikin Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University: The First Hours of the Invasion: A Chronology of Events in Ukraine’s Urban Telegram Chats

Bohdan Zek Volyn Regional Museum: The Russian-Ukrainian War in the Collections of Local Museums: Principles of Acquisition, Potential of the Source Base, and Methodology for Working with It

Ivan Moysiyenko Kherson State University: The Impact of War on Cultural Heritage Sites Rich in Natural Biodiversity

Svitlana Scherbyna T.G. Shevchenko National University "Chernihiv Collegium": Archiving Children’s Testimonies of War: Ethical and Psychological Standards for "Living Archives"

Serhii Rudko Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy, National University of Ostroh Academy: Archiving of Oral and Semi-Oral Testimonies from Participants in the Kherson Offensive Operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Iurii Rylskii Museum of the History of PJSC "Dniprospetsstal": Coverage in the Factory Newspaper "Elektrometalurg" of the Participation of Employees, Veterans, Volunteers of the PJSC "Dniprospetsstal" in Repelling the Russian Federation's Armed Aggression Against Ukraine (2014–2021)

Kyrylo Tarasenko independent researcher: Digital Tools and Infrastructures for Archiving Materials of the "Most Documented War"

George Ivanchenko photographer: Warchive