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 m.mazurak@lvivcenter.org

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Research residences

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

Lena Tsykynovska University of Chicago: Lviv's poetry communities of the late 1980s and 1990s

Michał Narożniak European University Institute in Florence: Provincial Perversions: Class, Ethnicity, and Cultures of Sexual Knowledge in Lviv and Galicia, 1885-1914

Tereza Hendl University of Augsburg: Nothing About Us Without Us: Refusal as Theory and Praxis

Vitalii Shchepanskyi Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University: Ritual in the City: Neo-Shamanism as a Form of Spiritual Healing in Ukraine

Daria Reznyk Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa: Soviet Deportations from the Western Part of Ukraine (1944-1953): A History of Experiences and Memories

Jared Warren Leibniz Institute for European History: A Place for Plants: The Politics of Botanical Geography in East Central Europe

Tobias Wals Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich: Ievhen Konovalets: A Political Biography

Fellowship Program of the Center for Urban History and INDEX

Ioulia Shukan EHESS: Life after Traumatic Limb Amputation in Ukraine: Between Individual Experiences and Reconfiguration of Prosthetic Care Provision

In cooperation with the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna)

Pavlo Leno Uzhhorod National University: Soldiers-liberators vs. Soldiers-volunteers: Commemorative Practices in Transcarpathia in the Soviet and Modern Period

Oleksandr Kryvobok Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University: Urban Space in Eastern Europe during the First World War from the Perspective of Diaries.

Mykola Hlibishchuk Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University: Phobias on the Borderlands: Espionage in Bukovyna during the First World War

LivArch Fellowships in War Documentation and Archiving

Oksana Sichova Institute of Archival Studies of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine: Archival Classification of Sources of the Russian-Ukrainian War Documented by Private and Public Initiatives

Albert Venger Oles Honchar Dnipro National University: Testimonies of War: From Collection to Archiving in the State Archives of Ukraine

Tetiana Savchenko Archive "Wall Evidence": Inscriptions of the Russian Military as a source of Research on the War Against Ukraine

Alina Rodina NGO "Association of Relatives of Political Prisoners of the Kremlin": Returning to the Occupied Territories: Risks of Repeated Illegal Detention, Access to Information from the TOT, and the Ethics of Documenting Testimony in Digital Archives

Nadiia Skobel Kherson State University: Flora of Old Cemeteries Within Right Bank Dnipro Grass Steppe District

Nadiia Pastukh independent researcher: The Verbal Representation of the Experience of War in the Context of Typological Features of the Construction of a Narrative about the Difficult Past/Difficult Present

Oleh Bahmet Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Transformation of the Ukrainian Landscape