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. and the founding 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 Ukrainian at the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (1990-1993, 1997-2010). 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). In 2011, he published Beginner’s Ukrainian with Interactive Online Workbook: http://www.hippocrenebooks.com/book.aspx?id=1699.
Click here to read one of his recent writings on Ukrainian film.
Yuri Shevchuk presented guest lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Rutgers Universities, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of Cambridge, Greisswald University (Germany), Universitá degli studi di Milano (Italy), the John Cabot University in Rome, the Ivan Karpenko-Kary University for Theater, Film and TV (Ukraine) and taught as guest lecturer at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine).
He is member of the National Cinematographers’ Union of Ukraine.
His current research projects are: early Ukrainian film (1890-1920), Soviet Film and Stalin’s War on Peasants, and Film and Identity.
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
Dr. Mark Andryczyk is the administrator of the Ukrainian Studies Program and lecturer in Ukrainian literature at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. He has a PhD in Ukrainian Literature from the University of Toronto (2005). At Columbia, he has taught several courses on Ukrainian literature and culture. In Spring 2012 he will be teaching a course entitled, "Fin de siècle Ukrainian Literature: Beauty, Duty and Decadence.” An active translator of contemporary Ukrainian literature, his monograph “The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian Fiction” will be published by the University of Toronto Press in Fall 2011.
Email: ma2634@columbia.edu
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Prof. Serhiy Bilenky
Dr. Bilenky (PhD in History, University of Toronto, 2007) is an associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, and is presently working on an upcoming publication that has the draft title “Documents of Ukrainian Historical and Political Thought: Kostomarov, Drahomanov, Antonovych.” Dr. Bilenky’s monograph, entitled "Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations", will be published by Stanford University Press, in Spring 2012.
Dr. Bilenky will be visiting the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute and teaching two courses at the Department of History for the Fall 2011 semester - “History of Modern Ukraine” and “Nationalities in the Russian Empire”.
Email: sb3016@columbia.edu
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Prof. Valentyna Kharkhun
Dr. Kharkhun is a visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Harriman Institute for academic year 2011-2012. She is Professor at the Ukrainian Literature Department, Mykola Hohol State University of Nizhyn and Senior researcher at the Department of 20th Century Ukrainian Literature, T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine. She is the author of two books Socialist Realist Canon in Ukrainian Literature: Genesis, Evolution, Modification (in Ukrainian), Nizhyn: Hidromax Ltd. – 2009. – 508 p. (laureate of Year Book’2010 prize in category of Literary Studies), Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s novel Snubnosed Mephisthopheles’ Notes: generics, semantic sphere and imagology (in Ukrainian), Nizhyn, 2011. – 200 p., four textbooks and seventy articles. Her research interests are the aesthetical paradigm of Soviet totalitarianism, the socialist realist canon and its reflection in Ukrainian literature, the projection of the “sovietness” phenomenon in modern world, methodologies of literary studies and Vynnychenko studies. At Columbia University, Valentyna Kharkhun will study Vynnychenko’s archive which is the main goal of her Fulbright research project The Ideological World of Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s Emigrant Heritage.
Email: vk2282@columbia.edu
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Prof. Oksana Kis
Dr. Oksana Kis is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) in Lviv, Ukraine. She received her academic degree of "kandydat nauk" (Ph.D. equivalent) in History from Ivan Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies NASU in 2002. Her academic interests cover women’s history, feminist anthropology, oral history, and gender transformations in post-socialist countries. She authored the book 'Women in the Traditional Ukrainian Culture, second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries' (Lviv: Institute of Ethnology NASU, 2008) and numerous articles (e.g., (Re)constructing the Women’s Histories in Ukraine: Actors, Agents, Narratives, in Gender, Politics and Society in Ukraine, eds. by Olena Pevny and Anstasiya Salnykova. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2011, forthcoming) and Biography as a political geography: patriotism in the Ukrainian women’s life stories in Ukraine, in Mapping Difference: The Many Faces of Women in Ukraine, ed. Marian J. Rubchak. (London: Berhgahn Books, 2011).
Oksana Kis is a co-editor of Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History (Berhanhn Books), she also served as a guest-editor for special issues of academic journals and volumes devoted to gender studies (e.g., Kis & Hentosh (ed.) Gender Approach: History, Culture, and Society, Lviv: Klasyka, 2003). She is also a Director of Lviv Resarch Center ‘Woman and Society’ (NGO) and President of the Ukrainian Association for Research in Women's History. She was awarded Fulbright Research Scholarship (2003), Eugene and Dymel Shklar Research Fellowship (2007), Petro Jacyk Visiting Professorship (2010).
Currently she is working on her research project, “Invisible Agency: Representations of Gendered Historical Experiences and Identities in the Ukrainian Women’s Personal Narratives” as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York.
In the Spring 2012 semester she will teaching a course at Columbia University entitled "Women and Post-Socialist Transformations in Ukraine, Russia and Poland."
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