Oksana Kis earned her Kandydat nauk in 2002 and is a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She will spend four months at Harvard (October 2007–January 2008) studying the topic “Twentieth-Century Ukraine in Women’s Memories.” Kis will examine thirty biographical interviews with elderly women (conducted in Lviv, Simferopil and Kharkiv) to reveal historical experiences, social identities, life strategies, and political loyalties of women in the context of dramatic transformations in Ukraine during the twentieth century. Her study is intended to demonstrate the efficacy of women’s oral history as a relevant and productive research method for an interdisciplinary study of the Ukrainian past.