HURI announces the establishment of Shklar Fellowships in Ukrainian studies (11/26/00)

HURI announces the establishment of Shklar Fellowships in Ukrainian studies

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University has announced the creation of a new program of post-doctoral fellowships in Ukrainian studies at Harvard. The new Shklar Fellowships are designed to annually bring distinguished scholars from around the world to Harvard to complete their research and publication work on important projects dealing with Ukrainian history, literature, music, culture and other topics in Ukrainian studies.

The first Shklar Fellows will begin their residency at Harvard in the 2001-2002 academic year and will be selected through an international competition.

"The establishment of the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellowships is a landmark event in the history of the Ukrainian Research Institute," said Roman Szporluk, institute director and the Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Professor of Ukrainian History. "Shklar Fellowships will allow the institute to open its - and, thus, Harvard's - doors to some of the best in the world community of Ukrainianists. We look forward to the mutual benefits that this exchange will bring. On behalf of all of us at the Ukrainian Research Institute, I wish to express our profound thanks to the Shklars for their great generosity."

The Shklar Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies are funded through a series of annual grants to Harvard from the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Foundation.

"Harvard University and the Ukrainian community in the U.S. and Canada have collaborated over the past 30 years to create here the world's leading institute for research, teaching and publications on Ukrainian topics," said Eugene Shklar, a 1972 alumnus of Harvard.

"The extraordinary resources assembled here make the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard an ideal environment in which several emerging scholars from around the world each year can conclude important research projects about Ukraine and its place in the world. We hope and expect that both Ukraine and Harvard will benefit from their work and presence here," he added.

The Eugene and Daymel Shklar Foundation is a charitable organization incorporated in California. The mission of the foundation is to support and promote Ukrainian studies and culture and to support outcome-based educational, cultural and health-care programs in Ukraine, Puerto Rico and other areas of the world.

For information about the Shklar Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies, or to obtain an application form, visit the Ukrainian Research Institute's website at www.huri.harvard.edu.

The Ukrainian Research Institute's mission includes the advancement of knowledge about Ukraine in the United States through research and teaching of the highest quality. The institute manages an award-winning publications program that distributes its titles through Harvard University Press and publishes a journal of Ukrainian Studies. The institute also maintains a reference library and archives, a seminar series in Ukrainian Studies within the Harvard curriculum and an intensive summer language program. It hosts conferences, symposia and special seminars for scholars, practitioners and policy-makers.

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