Run jointly with Harvard Summer School, our summer program offers seven intensive weeks of accredited study on Ukraine.

Bringing together scholars and policy makers, TCUP fosters new conversations on contemporary Ukraine.

Open to the public, our weekly seminar series, lectures, and special events feature scholars from around the world.

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.

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Harvard Ukrainian Studies (HUS) serves as an international forum for new scholarship in Ukrainian studies. All submissions undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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