Who Are the Faculty Members You Support with the Fellowships?
A faculty member is a mentor and a role model for future professionals. The more faculty invest in their work, the more successful graduates the university will have. The alumni of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy are an active community of leaders who influence the growth of Ukraine and the world. They are executives of large companies, diplomats, members of parliament, educators, civil society leaders, and more. Fellowships are an investment in the growth of this community. It is an investment in the future of Ukraine. Learn more about the KMA faculty, and meet some of our renowned professors.
Oleksiy Haran
Dr. Oleksiy Haran is a professor of Comparative Politics and has been teaching at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy since 1992. Professor Haran was the founder and the first dean of the KMA Department of Social Sciences. Since 2002, he has served as Founding Director of the KMA School for Policy Analysis, and since 2015 as Research Director at the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, a leading Ukrainian analytical and sociological think tank. In 2014-2015, as a political scientist, Professor Haran spent several weeks at the frontline nearby Mariupol, Luhansk, Avdiivka, and Donetsk Airport. He is a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and a member of the Washington-based Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS-Eurasia). He is a frequent commentator in Ukrainian and international media, including «The New York Times», «The Financial Times», «The Economist», «Gazeta Wyborcza». In 2023 he was awarded the British Empire Medal for his contribution to the Ukrainian-British partnership.
Constantin Sigov
Constantin Sigov is a renowned philosopher, who is a professor of philosophy and religious studies at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, where he also directs the Center of European Humanities Research. He was associate director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris from 1992 to 1995. He is the founder and director of the publishing house “Dukh i Litera” at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. He is the author of more than 50 research works dedicated to the fields of philosophy and the history of culture. For his activity as a bridge builder between cultures, Constantin Sigov was decorated by France with the rank of Officer of the Order of Academic Palms. In 2023 he was awarded a medal for contributions to the advancement of science by the Scientific Society of the Czech Republic.
Tamara Martsenyuk
Tamara Martsenyuk, Ph.D., is a Ukrainian sociologist who teaches at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and is a gender expert at the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and studied at the University of Oslo. She completed a scholarship at the University of Gothenburg, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University's Centre for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She has taught in the US at Stanford University and Columbia University, in Canada, Germany at the European University Viadrina, the United Kingdom, Finland, Estonia, Belgium, Lithuania, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, and Poland. She was one of the founders who launched the project The Invisible Battalion in 2015 advocating for gender equality in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She is a leading organizer of the KMA Gender Equality Weeks which include lectures and conferences.
Andrii Hlybovets
After graduating from KMA in 2003, Andrii Hlybovets began his career as a faculty member in 2007. He became the dean of the KMA Department of Informatics in 2019. Since that time, the department established joint projects with renowned IT partners such as InfoPulse, GlobalLogic, and Epam. Andrii is the soul of the IT department and continues to inspire students who work on technology innovation and develop many technological needs for Ukraine’s defense sector. Andrii is also a frequent commentator on IT topics in Ukrainian media. You can read his interview about Ukrainian IT education for NV (in Ukrainian) or listen to his audio lecture for Radio Culture (in Ukrainian).
Ola Hnatiuk
Ola Hnatiuk is a leading intellectual, historian, author, essayist, and professor at the University of Warsaw and at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2006-2010, Dr. Hnatiuk served in the Diplomatic Corps of Poland as First-Counsellor, Head of Science, Education, and also as Cultural Attache at the Embassy of Poland in Ukraine. Dr. Ola Hnatiuk also was a Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Fellow in 2001-2002. She received the title of professor at KMA in 2023, at a recent ceremony marking the occasion. She received numerous awards including Polonia Restituta (Poland’s highest state award), the Antonovych Awards, and the Polish PEN-Club Award.
