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 Read more
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Research residences

Guénola Inizan

Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig
Investigating the Seizure of Dwellings in Occupied Ukraine

Olya Zikrata

School of Communication at Simon Fraser University
Sonic Knowledges of the Invasion: An Inquiry into the Ukrainian War Experience

Vincent Hoyer

Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO)
Leisure under Control? The Politicization of Pleasure Cultures in the Multiethnic Cities of Warsaw, L’viv, and Poznan 1890-1914

Anthony Richter

Bard College's Center for Civic Engagement
A Ukrainian Family Chronicle Through War and Resistance

Ieva Gudaityte

University of Oslo
Listening to War Through Independent Community Radios in Ukraine and Beyond

Kinga Lendeczki

Eötvös Loránd University
Artist Roles, Social and Political Engagements in Contemporary Art: A Study of the Contemporary Ukrainian Art Scene

Roman Shliakhtych

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
Ukrainian Auxiliary Police and its Participation in the Holocaust in the Occupied Ukrainian Territories

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

Iryna Piatnytskova

Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University
Destruction of Ukraine's Cultural Heritage in the Optics of Documentation Initiatives

George Ivanchenko

photographer
Warchive

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
Supported by the Foundation for Jewish Studies in Wroclaw

Petro Dolhanov

Rivne Regional Institute of Postgraduate Pedagogical Education
Property Hunters: Economic Factors in the Behavior of the Non-Jewish Population of Western Volyn during the Holocaust

Bohdan Zek

Volyn Museum of Local Lore
The Jewish Council of Lutsk between the Interests of the Community and the Challenges of the Nazi Occupation