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[Robert De Lossa <rdelossa@fas.harvard.edu>]

Press Release

Harvard Establishes Three New Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Ukrainian Studies

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>.
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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
educational, cultural, and health-care programs in Ukraine, Puerto Rico,
and other areas of the world.

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  Dr. James I. Clem
  Executive Director

  Ukrainian Research Institute
  Harvard University
  1583 Massachusetts Ave.
  Cambridge, MA 02138  USA

  tel. (617)495-4081
  fax  (617)495-8097

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