Residential Fellowships for Scholars from Ukraine

Fellowship Programs

This program offers 18 outstanding Ukrainian scholars a two-month fellowship at the IWM.

Eligibility

Fellows are doctoral students as well as established scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Candidates are affiliated with a Ukrainian university or research institution or have received at least one of their academic credentials from one. 

Conditions

Selected fellows have been invited to spend two months at the IWM between May and December 2022.

Visiting Fellows will receive a stipend of EUR 2,500 per month to cover accommodation, living expenses, health insurance and any incidentals related to their stay in Vienna.

In addition, the IWM provides the fellow with office space, in-house research and administrative facilities as well as an in-house lunch and other services free of charge.

Visiting Fellows must spend the duration of their fellowship in Vienna.

Contact

Katherine Younger

Permanent Fellow, IWM

ukraine@iwm.at 

These fellowships are generously funded by the City of Vienna.

Fellowships

  • Small and Mighty: How Benelux Countries Respond to the European Integration of Ukraine, -
    Aliesia Soloviova
  • Art, Truth, and Propaganda in the Digital Age: Ukrainian Poetry in the Hybrid War, -
    Max Rosochinsky
  • Multispecies Ruptures: Stories of Displacement and Human-Plant Relations from Donbas, Ukraine, -
    Darya Tsymbalyuk
  • "Stand on the Right Side of History": Enterprises and Society in the Russia-Ukraine War, -
    Volodymyr Kulikov
  • The Greek Catholic Church and the Ukrainian Diaspora in Austria: Cooperation in the Interests of the Church and Society, -
    Oksana Pasitska
  • Shiism in the Post-Soviet Space: The Impact of New Media, -
    Akif Tahiiev
  • Poetry Migration, -
    Daryna Gladun
  • Translation as Resistance: Language, Politics and Cultural Colonialism in Soviet Ukraine, -
    Valentyna Savchyn
  • Ukrainian Civil Society, Volunteer and Professional Networks During the War, -
    Yuliya Bidenko
  • Socialist Realism in Ukrainian Soviet Art History and Art Criticism, 1950s–60s, -
    Polina Baitsym
  • International Development and Vulnerability in the Frontline Communities of the Donbas, -
    Anastasiya Ryabchuk
  • War, Society, and the Arts: Artistic Expressions in Ukraine, -
    Lesia Smyrna
  • Men, Gendered Borders, and Geographical (Im)Mobility in Times of War, -
    Ruslana Koziienko
  • Friend or Foe?: Religious Organizations and European Institutions in the Face of Russia’s War on Ukraine, -
    Iuliia Korniichuk
  • Connected by Water: The Ukrainian South from Stalin to Independence, -
    Kateryna  Burkush
  • Speaking Objects and Spaces: Materiality and Environment in the Midst of Famines in Soviet Ukraine, -
    Iryna Skubii
  • What Power Does Art Have during the War?, -
    Kateryna Iakovlenko
  • “New Soviet Woman” in Ukraine of the 1920-1930s: Ways of Self-Representation, -
    Oksana Klymenko

Fellows