Welcome to the New KIU Fellows – Spring Semester 2026
In April, we welcome 18 new Fellows selected from over 70 applications. Under the new KIU semester theme 'Nationalities, Minorities and Identity: (Re)Configuring Ukraine?', they will spend the coming months pursuing their individual research projects.
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The new Fellows will conduct their research both on-site in Frankfurt (Oder) and as Sur-place Fellows based in Ukraine.
On-Site Fellows (in residence in Frankfurt an der Oder):
- Veronica Botticelli (University of Milan)
- Fiona Greenland (University of Virginia)
- Vladyslav Ivatskyi (Interregional Academy of Personnel Management)
- Georgiy Kasianov (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University of Lublin)
- Ondřej Klípa (Charles University)
- Katalin Kolozsvári (HUN-REN RCAES Geographical Institute)
- Yanush Panchenko (Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Orest Semotiuk (Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences)
- Svitlana Telukha (National Technical University Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute)
Surplace Fellows:
- Lesia Bidochko (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
- Nadia Bureiko (Foreign Policy Council Ukrainian Prism)
- Yulia Fetko (Uzhhorod National University)
- Mykola Homanyuk (Kherson State University)
- Martin-Oleksandr Kisly (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
- Vladyslava Moskalets (Centre for Urban History of East-Central Europe)
- Roman Samchuk (H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
- Oleksandr Zaitsev (Ukrainian Catholic University)
- Oleksandr Zubariev (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)
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