Scott Spector

The contemporary cities of Krákow, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil and others share a history as ethnically diverse centers of the region of the Habsburg Empire known as Galicia. This project aims to expose the palimpsest of historical experience in these places, where traces of a very different past are hidden in plain sight, even as they have been superseded by newer sensibilities of city and nation.

This was a Andrei Sheptyts'kyi Senior Fellowship as part of the Ukraine in European Dialogue program. These fellowships are offered by invitation to outstanding international scholars who have demonstrated longstanding intellectual solidarity with Ukraine.