Prof. Yuri Shevchuk
Prof. Yuri Shevchuk is Lecturer of Ukrainian Language and Culture at the Department of Slavic Languages of Columbia University, New York, N.Y. He is also the founder and director of the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia. (To see the Ukrainian Film Club website, please see Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University.) He earned his PhD in Germanic Philology from Kyiv State University (1987), and MA in Political Science from the New School for Social Research, New York, N.Y., (1996). He has taught English at the Department of Foreign Languages of the Ukrainian Institute of Water Management, Rivne, Ukraine (1987-1992), and Intermediate Ukrainian at the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (since 1990). He published a number of articles on English vocabulary studies, theory of translation, language and identity formation in Ukraine, and dual citizenship. He is also a journalist and translator. His published translations include G.Orwell’s Animal Farm (Vsesvit, no 1, Kyiv, 1991) and O.Subtelny’s Ukraine: a History (Kyiv, 1992).
Email: sy2165@columbia.edu
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Ambassador Valery Kuchinsky
The Columbia University Ukrainian Studies Program is honored to have Ambassador Valery P. Kuchinsky, former Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, teaching a course during the Spring 2007 semester titled "Ukraine and the United Nations Through the Eyes of a Ukrainian Ambassador: Diplomacy and Politics."
During the course of his professional career in the Ukrainian Foreign Service, which spans a period of over three decades, Ambassador Kuchinsky occupied important posts both at home and abroad. He has served in numerous bilateral and multilateral appointments in New York, Washington, DC, Geneva (Switzerland), in Africa and in the Carribean. At home he served as Member of the Board of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), Director-General of the Americas Department, Executive Secretary of the National Commission for UNESCO. He also headed the Department of Arms Control and Disarmament.
Valery Kuchinsky has been closely associated with the United Nations: as a staff-member of the UN Secretariat, as a member and Head of Ukrainian delegations to numerous UN fora, as Director-General of the International Organizations, as Ukraine’s Representative to the UN Commission on Human Rights. On various occasions he served as President of the UN Security Council, Chairman of the GA Third Committee, Vice-President of the ECOSOC. In 2006, Ambassador V.Kuchynsky presided over the Executive Board of the UN Development Programme and Population Fund.
Since 1997 when the first radical reforms were introduced by UN Secretary-General Ambassador Kuchinsky has been instrumental in moving various reform initiatives. He was actively involved in negotiations on the UN Millennium Declaration in 2000. During 2005 he served as one of the Facilitators of the preparatory process to the 2005 World Summit and its Outcome Document.
Throughout all these years, he has gained priceless UN-related experience, has established himself as a leading expert in UN matters. He has authored scores of articles and monographs on UN activities and its reform, Ukraine’s participation in the UN, international relations and foreign policy.
For his impeccable diplomatic service Mr. Kuchinsky has been awarded with the State Order of Ukraine “For Merit”, the Order of St.Volodymyr of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and numerous honorary decrees of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Parliament and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
Mr. Kuchinsky holds a post-graduate degree in international relations from T. Shevchenko Kyiv State University and a Diploma from Moscow Diplomatic Academy.
Email: alla_kuchinsky@hotmail.com
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Prof. Mark Andryczyk
Prof. Mark Andryczyk will be teaching the literature course, "Euphoria, Chaos and a Community of Others in Post-Soviet Ukrainian Literature and Culture" at Columbia University during the Fall 2007 semester. Prof. Andryczyk has a Ph.D in Ukrainian Literature from the University of Toronto. He has received a postdoctoral fellowship for 2007-2008 from the Shevchenko Scientific Society. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania during the Spring 2007 semester, as well as a Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University in 2006.
Email: ma2634@columbia.edu
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Prof. Frank Sysyn
Frank Sysyn, a Jacyk Visiting Scholar to the Columbia Ukrainian Studies Program, will be teaching the lecture course "History of Modern Ukraine" and the graduate seminar “The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Ukraine and Muscovy-Russia in the Early Modern Period” during the Spring 2008 semester.
Frank Sysyn is director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research and editor in chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project. A specialist in Ukrainian and Polish history, he is author of "Between Poland and Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600-1653 (1985) and of numerous studies on early modern Ukrainian historiography and political culture. He has been an associate editor of "Harvard Ukrainian Studies" since 1978.
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