Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets

Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets

historian, researcher (2021 – present)


In 2011-2012, Vladyslava was a Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as a Grantee of the Ludmer program by the Jewish Galicia and Bukovina Organization. In 2013-2017 studied at the joint doctoral program of UCU and the Institute of Jewish Studies of the Jagiellonian University (Krakow), working on the dissertation "Jewish industrial elites in Drohobych and Borislav, 1860-1900". Vladyslava received PhD in history in 2017 in Krakow. Vladyslava was an external collegiate at the Doktoratskolleg Galizien program (University of Vienna) in 2013-2016. Fellow of the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations (March-May 2016). Fulbright Scholar Fellow (2018-2019), Northwestern University, Chicago. Since 2016, she has been teaching courses related to Ukrainian and Jewish history of the 19th century, consumption history, and Hebrew. Senior lecturer at the Department of History of the Ukrainian Catholic University, coordinator of the Jewish Studies program.

At the Center for Urban History, Vladyslava is conducting a research project on the urban elites of Lviv in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The study identifies urban elites by their economic status and status in society and traces the links between them and the specifics of social mobility.

Research interests: Jewish history of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, history of consumption, women's studies, Yiddish and linguistic diversity