Olga Onuch to be Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow

The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (CERES) at the University of Toronto is pleased to announce Olga Onuch as the 2010-2011 recipient of the Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society. Olga received her DPhil from the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, Nuffield College and will take up residence at CERES in Fall 2010. Her thesis was entitled “Revolutionary Moments and Movements: Comparing the Mechanisms of Mass-Mobilisation in Argentina in 2001 and Ukraine in 2004”.

Olga’s research is comparative in nature and strives to expand the academic boundaries of not only within Central and Eastern Europe but also between Europe and Latin America. She has contributed to research projects covering: Civic Engagement and the Informal Economy in Brazil and Ukraine, Political Preferences of Ukrainian Migrants and the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in Ukraine.

In 2008-2009, Olga was a visiting researcher associated with Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For 2009-2010, Olga was awarded the Neporany Doctoral Fellowship in Ukrainian Studies. During her tenure, she founded the ‘Oxford University Consortium for Ukrainian Studies’. Olga has also worked as a project researcher at the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) in Kyiv, Ukraine (2001) and at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean in New York City (2004).

Olga has been a contributor to Development and Transition and has several forthcoming articles covering activism and mobilisation in Ukraine and Argentina. She is also a co-editor of a volume entitled ‘Revolutionary Moments: Protest and Art in Poland and Ukraine 1980-2010” (forthcoming, September 2010) based on the ‘Revolutionary Moments’ symposium and project which took place at Kyiv Mohyla Academy national University (NaUKMA) in December 2009.

During her tenure at CERES, Olga will be completing a book-length manuscript on ‘The Making of a Civil Society in Ukraine: 1980-2010” and will continue her comparative work on mobilisation and democratic transition. Olga will teach a course “Civil Society: Social Movements in Ukraine and Eastern Europe” in Spring 2011 and participate in activities of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine at the University of Toronto.

The objective of the Fellowship is to support the most promising junior scholars studying contemporary Ukraine and thereby advance academic understanding of Ukrainian politics, culture, and society.

For more information about the Fellowship please visit: http://www.utoronto.ca/jacyk/postdoctoral%20fellowship/index.htm