Yuriy Zazulyak is a junior research fellow at the Institute of Ukrainian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, and received his Kandydat nauk degree in 2004. He will spend three months at Harvard (February–May 2008) researching the topic “Violence, Courts, and Noble Community in Late Medieval Galicia.” His work will investigate interpersonal violence and nobles’ disputes in late medieval Galicia, based on the premise of the key role violence and litigation played in shaping the ethos and identity of members of the noble estate. The main aim of Zazulyak’s project is to approach noble violence and disputes as complex social phenomena, interpreting them as a point of intersection of different aspects of social reality.