Calendar of Events 2009-2010

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Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2009-2010

Serhiy Kudelia, Assistant Professor of Political Science at National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy", will spend 2009-2010 academic year at CERES. Serhiy is a recent PhD holder from the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He defended his dissertation on “Deconstructing Power: Society, Elite Perceptions and the Politics of Constitutional Reform in Ukraine, 1999 – 2004”. His publications include: The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, co-authored with Kiron Skinner, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Condoleezza Rice, University of Michigan Press, 2007; Raw Nerve: The Dynamics of 2000-01 Civic Protests in Ukraine, co-authored with Myroslava Gongadze, Open Society Foundation, Kyiv, 2004; and forthcoming “Betting on Society: Power Perceptions and Elite Games in Ukraine,” in Paul D’Anieri, ed., The Contest for Social Mobilization in Ukraine (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
During his tenure at CERES, Serhiy will be revising his doctoral project and turning it into a book-length manuscript, teach a course “Politics and Civil Society in Ukraine and Russia” in spring 2010, and participate in various Program’s activities. (more about the Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellowship)

Jakob Hedenskog, Deputy Research Director at the Swedish Defence Research Agency , is Visiting Fellow at the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine from September 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. He will be conducting research on Ukraine's defence and security sector reforms, its relations with Russia and the situation around Crimea and the Black Sea region. His stay is supported by the Swedish Defence Research Agency.

Myroslava Bilak, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the International Solomon University in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Petro Jacyk Program Visiting Scholar will spend October-November 2009 at CERES. Myroslava is researching a book on national identity, institutional development and constitutional legitimacy in Ukraine; she is particularly interested in whether the values underlying the Constitution of Ukraine can operate as a social contract between citizens, or whether the Constitution is fated to remain an instrument promoting the interests of Ukraine's political elites.