Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University
Advancing knowledge of Ukraine through teaching, research, and publication
Upcoming Events
2026 Fall Reception
Join HURI for conversation and refreshments as we look ahead to the new academic year!
Jews in Old Rus'
Book launch and discussion of Jews in Old Rus' with author Alexander Kulik
Voices for Ukraine: Symposium & Concert
Join First Aid of the Soul for an evening of dialogue, music, and collective purpose
News and Announcements
New frontline report from David Kirichenko
In his latest piece for HURI, journalist David Kirichenko describes embedding with Ukraine’s 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade, a drone unit fighting on the front lines. His report shows what drone-dominated warfare looks like on the ground.
Meet the 2026 HUSI Cohort
We are pleased to introduce the 2026 Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute students. Last week, we welcomed 24 students to campus from around the world. HUSI 2026 runs for seven weeks from June 22 through August 7.
Book Release — Jews in Old Rus′: A Documentary History by Alexander Kulik
HURI Books is delighted to announce the publication of Jews in Old Rus′: A Documentary History by Alexander Kulik, a professor in the Department of Russian and East European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Fellowships
Programs
Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute
Run jointly with Harvard Summer School, our summer program offers seven intensive weeks of accredited study on Ukraine.
Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program
Bringing together scholars and policy makers, TCUP fosters new conversations on contemporary Ukraine.
Seminars and Memorial Lectures
Open to the public, our weekly seminar series, lectures, and special events feature scholars from around the world.
Publications Program
Books Published by HURI
HURI's publications program is conducted at the high standard of scholarship and editing expected of Harvard. Our books are distributed by Harvard University Press and reviewed internationally.
Harvard Ukrainian Studies Journal
Harvard Ukrainian Studies (HUS) serves as an international forum for new scholarship in Ukrainian studies. All submissions undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review.
Resources
Inside HURI Books
Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle"
By Andrii Portnov
The history of “Ukrainian Harvard” began even before Pritsak’s arrival in the United States. As early as 1953, at a meeting at Columbia University, the Federation of Ukrainian Student Organizations of America was formed, bringing together more than 600 students from about 50 universities. The following year, the Ukrainian Student Foundation was established, and, in 1957, the Ukrainian Studies Chair Fund, widely known as the Fond katedr ukraїnoznavstva (FKU), was created. It managed to raise $250,000 US dollars by 1967. Student initiative played a decisive role in the first stage. Pritsak’s motivation and authority later galvanized that movement.
David and Goliath
By Serhii Plokhy
The war in Ukraine is the latest chapter in the more than century-long disintegration of the Russian Empire and Russian efforts to arrest and reverse that process. During the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks managed to unite under their control most of the imperial Russian territories that had fallen away toward the end of World War I. Not only had Poland, Finland, and the Baltic states declared their independence in the course of the revolution, but so had Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and other parts of the former empire.
Furious Harvest
By Alex Averbuch
Autobiographical and searching, these poems extend the moment beyond the visible and the current, navigating the blackouts of meaning in the land’s rich, troubled history: the pogroms, the bloodsheds, ethnic cleansings and population exchanges, the state-orchestrated famines and waves of forced deportation.
Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters
By Iya Kiva
Translation is latent in the form and subject matter of Kiva’s work. Born in Ukraine’s largely Russophone Donbas in 1984, Kiva has embedded translation in her poetry as a metaphor for the process of understanding her own, and her country’s, diverse linguistic and ethnic history.
