Research grants 2018
The HREC Research Grants Competition is held annually to support academic research on the Holodomor, the publication of research results, the preservation of materials, and the organization of and participation in academic venues. Each year, a new thematic focus is established, though proposals for other topics are considered. The applications are reviewed by a committee of scholars and HREC associates.
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2018 HREC Research Grants Competition
The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium awarded a total of $33,500 (CAD) in grants, ranging from $980 to $6000, through its 2018 Research Grants Competition.
The focus of this year’s competition was on projects that focus on research and publishing of research results, preservation of materials, and organization of and participation in Holodomor-related conference sessions and workshops. For the second time, HREC considered proposals for collaborative projects involving two or more individuals and/or institutions, and in particular, projects that engage institutions and individuals both in and outside Ukraine.
Individual Projects 2018
Gulnara Bekirova
Deputy Director of the Special Commission of the Kurultai for the Study of the Genocide of the Crimean Tatar People
“Deportations and hunger: Crimean Tatar (post)memory and the shared fate of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars under the Stalinist system.”
Many historical parallels exist between Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar experiences under Soviet
rule, including deportation and mass starvation. Oral histories of Crimean Tatars who lived
through the famine of 1921-22, the Holodomor of 1932-33, and the deportation of 1944 reveal
that witnesses perceived a direct association between these events and Stalinist policies. This
grant supports the continuation of a project to analyze how memories of deportation and
starvation have been preserved and transmitted across generations of Crimean Tatars.
Olga Bertelsen
Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University in the City of New York
“Cannibalism at Sites of Mass Starvation in Ukraine in 1932-1933.”
The research examines in what ways prolonged food deprivation shapes people’s behavior and
analyzes a range of transgressions committed by starving individuals during the Holodomor,
illuminating problems of ethics, morality, and personal choice that occurred in spaces of
violence and extreme starvation.
Collaborative Projects 2018
Serhii Plokhy
Harvard University
Konstiantyn Bondarenko
Harvard University
Oleksandr Gladun
NASU Ptoukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies
Natalia Kulyk
NASU Ptoukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies
Nataliia Levchuk
NASU Ptoukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies
“The Holodomor in Ukraine: regional peculiarities of population losses by gender and age in 1932-1934.”
This project assesses Holodomor population losses in Ukraine based on demographic statistics for 1926–39, contributing to a series of thematic maps for the Holodomor Atlas (part of the GIS project "Mapa. Digital Atlas of Ukraine"). The objectives include assessment of intensity of losses by region; comparative analysis of the age profile of male and female losses in regional context; and differences in sex and type of settlement.
Oleksandr Lysenko
NASU Institute of the History of Ukraine, Department of the History of Ukraine during the Second World War
Oleksandr Maiyevsky
NASU Institute of the History of Ukraine, Department of the History of Ukraine during the Second World War
Tetiana Zabolotna
NASU Institute of the History of Ukraine, Department of the History of Ukraine during the Second World War
“The Holodomor in Ukraine as a focus of academic and journalistic study in the 1940s and 1950s.”
The project aims at a comprehensive analysis of publications about the Holodomor in the 1930s–50s to assess their influence on the formation of the historical memory of Ukrainians based on ego-documents, periodicals, publications by diaspora scholars and publicists, and representatives of Ukraine’s independence movement, as well as Nazi propaganda that sought to focus attention of those under the Nazi occupation on the crimes of Stalinism.