Honorary Board
Prof. Tamara Hundorova (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukrainian Free University, Munich)
Prof. Tamara Hundorova is Head of the Department of Literary Theory (Institute of Literature of the NAS of Ukraine), Associate Fellow (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute) and Dean (Ukrainian Free University). She is the author of The Post-Chornobyl Library. The Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s (2019), Tranzytna kultura. Symptomy postkolonial’noji traumy (2013); Pisliachornobyl’s’ka biblioteka. Ukrains’kyj literaturnyj postmodernism (2005, second edition 2013); Kitsch i literatura. Travestii (2008); Proiavlennia slova. Dyskursiia rannioho ukrains’koho modernizmu (1997, second edition 2009); Franko i/ne Kameniar (2006); Femina melancholica. Stat’ i kul’tura v gendernij utopii Ol’hy Kobylians’koi (2002) and other books as well as numerous publications on modernism, postmodernism, feminism, postcolonial studies and history of Ukrainian literature.
Prof. Hundorova taught at Harvard University (USA), Toronto University (Canada), Greifswald University (Germany), Ukrainian Free University (Germany), Kyiv-Mohyla University (Ukraine), Kyiv National University (Ukraine). She is a former Fulbright Scholar (1998, 2009), Visiting scholar of Monash university (Australia, 1991) and a recipient of Yacyk Distinguished Fellowship (2009), Shklar fellowship (HURI, 2001-2002), Foreign visitors fellowship (Hokkaido University, 2004), MUNK School of Global Affair fellowship (University of Toronto, 2017). Currently she is a Fellow of Philipp Schwartz-Initiative of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung at Justus Liebig University Giessen.
Prof. Vasyl Kosiv (Lviv National Academy of Arts)
Prof. Vasyl Kosiv has been teaching visual communication since 1998. He graduated from Lviv Academy of Arts and received his PhD from Kharkiv Academy of Design and Arts. In 2003–2004 he was a visiting lecturer at Kansas State University and visiting scholar at The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. Vasyl Kosiv served as a Deputy-Mayor of the City of Lviv from 2006 to 2013 and was responsible for various projects in Education, Culture, Tourism, and Historic Heritage. He was a fellow of several educational programs in management, European bureaucracy, urban design, tourism in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Japan. In 2015–2016 he was a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University in New York. He has presented lectures and seminars at Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Southern California, New Jersey City University, and other academic institutions. Vasyl Kosiv defended his habilitation thesis in April, 2019. His monograph “Ukrainian Identity in Graphic design of 1945–1989” (2019) was awarded a grand-prix at Lviv Book Forum 2019 and a grand-prix at the national rating “Book of the Year”. In Spring semester 2021, he was a visiting professor at the University of Warsaw. Since August 2021, Vasyl Kosiv has been a rector of the Lviv National Academy of Arts.
Prof. Roman Sheremeta (American University Kyiv, Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University)
Dr. Roman Sheremeta is a well-known economist of Ukrainian descent. He is a Founding Rector of American University Kyiv and a Professor of Economics at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University and is a recipient of many research and teaching awards, including the 2018 Smith Scholar Prize, given to a “budding genius” in social science, as well as multiple grants, including the National Science Foundation and the Max Planck Institute grants. Sheremeta was listed as a Top Economic Thinker of Ukrainian descent by Forbes in 2015, a top-rated young economist in the world according to the IDEAS ranking in 2018, and recognized as the Best 40 Under 40 Professors by Poets and Quants in 2019.
As one of the most cited Ukrainian economists globally, his research has been published in more than 80 leading scholarly journals in economics, business, psychology, and political science. Top-tier media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, NBC News, NPR, and Science Daily, have featured his research, which focuses on experimental economics and game theory with applications to behavioral economics, conflict resolution, industrial organization, labor, and public economics. Dr. Sheremeta is a Founding Member of the Global Ukraine Foundation and a Co-Chair of Ukrainian American House. Also, he works with several think tanks on the plan to rebuild Ukraine and serves as a member on the Advisory Board to the President of Ukrainie.
Yuri Shevchuk is the Senior Lecturer of Ukrainian at the Department of Slavic Languages and the Harriman Institute of Columbia University in the City of New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Philology from Kyiv State University (1987), and MA in Political Science from the New School for Social Research (1996). In 1990-2012 he taught Ukrainian at Harvard University Summer School. He also teaches Ukrainian at Yale and Cornell. In addition to Ukrainian, he teaches courses in Ukrainian, Soviet and post-Soviet Film as well as Slavic Cultures.
Yuri Shevchuk has published in the US, Canadian, and Ukrainian press and on the Internet on issues of Ukrainian language, identity, culture, Ukrainian and world cinema. He authored Beginner’s Ukrainian with Interactive Online Workbook, Hippocrene Books, 2011, 2013, 2016, a popular textbook for university students and self-learners worldwide. Its third expanded, updated and integrated edition cаme out in August 2022. Shevchuk’s essay Linguistic Schizophrenia. Whither, Ukraine? Diskursus Publishers, 2015, provoked a national discussion in Ukraine about the current state of the Ukrainian national identity and new destructive forms of Russification. His article “Language in the Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema. Decolonization or Neocolonialism” is the first ever academic study of the subject. His latest publication is “Cinematographic Depopulation as a Variety of Cultural Imperialism,” 2022.
He has lectured on Ukrainian film, language, and culture at leading US, Canadian, English, Italian, Spanish, Polish, and Ukrainian universities. Dr. Shevchuk is a leading Ukrainian lexicographer. His book the Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, New York, N.Y., 2021, 1,000 pages, has no precedents in Slavic or English lexicography. In 2004, Yuri Shevchuk founded the Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University, the only permanent forum for Ukrainian film in North America and has promoted Ukrainian film both in North America and Western Europe.
Prof. Anatolij Zahnitko ( Department of General and Applied Linguistics and Slavic Philology of the Donetsk National University, Ukrainian Language and Information Fund of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
Anatoly Zagnitko is professor of the Department of General and Applied Linguistics and Slavic Philology, dean of the Faculty of Philology, Psychology and Foreign Languages of the Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University; He is also a chief researcher of the Ukrainian Language and Information Fund of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and a valid member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Author of the books Języki słowiańskie dziś: w kręgu kategorii, struktur i procesów (2021); Delineation of Linguopersonology and Linguoaxiology (2019); Linguistic space of grammar (2018), Theory of linguistic personology (2017); Grammar of modern Ukrainian literary language. Morphology (2017); Grammar of speech and text (2014); The breath of the native word (2014); Theoretical grammar of the modern Ukrainian language. Morphology. Syntax (2011); Theory of modern syntax (2008), etc.; Dictionary of particles (2013); Dictionary of modern linguistics (2012); Dictionary of Ukrainian prepositions (2007), as well as numerous publications on the theory of grammar, functional and contrastive grammars, language policy, linguopersonology, discourseology, text linguistics. The founder and editor-in-chief of the publication “Linguistic Studies” (since 1992), as well as “Linguistic Computer Studies” (since 2002), initiated the international biennial conference “Grammatic Readings” (since 2000). Professor Anatoly Zagnitko taught at Wroclaw University (Poland), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), Belgrade University (Serbia), Kyiv-Mohyla Academy National University (Ukraine), Mariupol State University (Ukraine), Horliv Institute of Foreign Languages (Ukraine).
Prof. Taras Koznarsky (University of Toronto)
Taras Koznarsky is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of Toronto. He holds a PhD from Harvard University (2001) and an MA from the University of Alberta (1994).