NEW YORK – Columbia’s Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute will offer eight courses focusing on Ukrainian history, political science, literature, language and visual art in the spring 2020 semester. It will also organize a series of lectures in Ukrainian studies at the university.
Joining the program for the spring semester will be Dr. Oksana Vynnyk, the visiting assistant professor of history for spring 2020 – a position supported by Ukrainian Studies Instructional Fund. Dr. Vynnyk earned a Ph.D. in history in 2018 at the University of Alberta. Her research focuses on the reintegration of World War I invalids in Lviv and, more generally, how disability is defined by the state. She has also studied minorities in Lviv of that period, as well as sexual abuse during collectivization and the Holodomor.