Projects Funded

The projects listed below have been supported by Documenting Ukraine. This is not a complete list; other grantees have opted not to publish information about their projects, and new projects are being added to the site on an ongoing basis.

Project	Grantee
The New Ukrainian Wave	Daria Badior
Book of essays on post-2014 Ukrainian culture makers, detailing their challenges and the renaissance in the arts for an English-speaking audience
The Second Year of the War	Andrii Krasniashchykh
Documentary series capturing everyday life and the evolving mental landscapes of Ukrainians amidst the prolonged and changing war throughout 2023
There Is a Land Beyond Perekop	Anastasia Levkova
A novel about Crimea covering 1992-2014, focusing on Crimean Tatar families & their experiences, explores ethnic communities in Crimea & factors leading to annexation
Those Behind Me	Iryna Tsilyk
An intimate and poetic documentary essay about generational trauma reflecting Ukraine’s past, present, and future.
Too Far to Be Known, Too Corporeal to Be Intangible	Olexii Kuchanskyi
Regular essays in English aiming to document challenges facing Ukrainian society as the war continues, focusing on bodies, images, & technosocial renderings of corporeality
Unwinding Empire: Rethinking History and Culture Through Ukraine	Daria Badior, Anastasiia Platonova
The Unwinding Empire project widens the conversation to rethink the relationship between Eastern and Western Europe after the current war
War & Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War	Victoria Amelina
A war journal detailing the story of Ukrainian civil society's quest for justice, following journalists, rights activists, lawyers and volunteers
Wild Fields of Ukraine	Sasha Dovzhyk
Creative nonfiction essays explore the past and present of the partially occupied Southern Ukrainian Steppe where a battle for Europe is being fought
Wooden Wings of War: Collection of Essays	Maryana Maksymyak
A series of essays exploring the cultural heritage of Buchach, focusing on the intersection of Ukrainian and Jewish cultures and Agnon's works
Zatyshok against the War: Stories of Things, Pets and Plants that Ukrainians Loved but Were Forced to Leave	Petro Yatsenko
A Book exploring ‘zatyshok’ – the Ukrainian sense of coziness and the role it has played in the war.
Zoology of War	Lyuba Yakimchuk
A short play cycle incorporating scientific data on animal perception to examine relationships between humans and animals during an ongoing war
Землемір (The Surveyor/The Geometer): A Collection of Short Stories	Iuliia Stakhivska
Collection of short stories combining the temporal dimensions of the author and their great-grandfather

Civil Society
Daily Life
Destruction & Reconstruction
Displacement
Environment
Health
Heritage
Human Rights
Identity & Culture
Information & Disinformation
Language & Symbols
Memory
Military
Occupation & Atrocity
Public Opinion
Religion
Resilience & Solidarity
Rural
Science & Education
Trauma & Rehabilitation
Urban
Vulnerable Groups
Women