Tetiana Hoshko is an assistant professor in the Department of Ukrainian History at Ukrainian Catholic University. She earned her Kandydat nauk degree in 1999. She will spend three months at Harvard (September–November 2005) to work on the topic "Early Modern Ukrainianization in the Borderlands: East-Central European Towns under German Law with an Emphasis on Ukrainian Cases." Hoshko will study the development of municipal self-government based on German law in the borderlands of East Central Europe from the late Middle Ages through the early modern period.