The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University today announced the creation of a new program of post-doctoral fellowships in Ukrainian Studies at Harvard. The new Shklar Fellowships are designed to bring to Harvard each year distinguished scholars from around the world to complete their research and publication work on important projects dealing with Ukrainian history, literature, music, culture and other topics in Ukrainian Studies. The first Shklar Fellows will begin their residency at Harvard in the 2001-02 academic year and will be selected through an international competition.

"The establishment of the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellowships is a landmark event in the history of the Ukrainian Research Institute," said Roman Szporluk, Institute Director and the Mykhailo Hrushevskyi Professor of Ukrainian History. "Shklar fellowships will allow the Institute to open its --and thus Harvard's --doors to some of the best in the world community of Ukrainianists. We look forward to the mutual benefits that this exchange will bring. On behalf of all of us at the Ukrainian Research Institute I wish to express our profound thanks to the Shklars for their great generosity."

The Shklar Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies are funded through a series of annual grants to Harvard from the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Foundation. "Harvard University and the Ukrainian community in the U.S. and Canada have collaborated over the past thirty years to create here the world's leading institute for research, teaching, and publications on Ukrainian topics," said Eugene Shklar ('72). "The extraordinary resources assembled here make the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard an ideal environment in which several emerging scholars from around the world each year can conclude important research projects about Ukraine and its place in the world. We hope and expect that both Ukraine and Harvard will benefit from their work and presence here."

For information about the Shklar Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies, or to obtain an application form, visit the Ukrainian Research Institute's web site at http://www.huri.harvard.edu/pr_ann/shklar_web.html.

About the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University

The Ukrainian Research Institute's mission includes the advancement of knowledge about Ukraine in the United States through research and teaching of the highest quality. The Institute manages an award-winning publications program that distributes its titles through Harvard University Press and publishes a journal of Ukrainian Studies. The Institute also maintains a reference library and archives, a seminar series in Ukrainian Studies within the Harvard curriculum, an intensive summer language program, and hosts conferences, symposia, and special seminars for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.

About the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Foundation

The Eugene and Daymel Shklar Foundation is a charitable organization incorporated in California. The mission of the Foundation is to support and promote Ukrainian studies and culture and to support outcome-based aducational, cultural, and health-care programs in Ukraine, Puerto Rico, and other areas of the world.

Dr. James I. Clem

Executive Director

Ukrainian Research Institute

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