Kulyk is a research fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He has been a research fellow at the OSCE Research Center at the University of Hamburg, served on the editorial boards of the Ukrainian newspaper Den' and the journal Suchasnist', and taught comparative political science at the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Among his published works is the book Ukrainian Nationalism in Independent Ukraine (Kyiv, 1999). While at HURI, Kulyk will be working on an analysis of the transformation of the idea of the Ukrainian state among political élites—both dissident activists and party nomenklatura—in the late Soviet period (1986–1991).