The Lesia Ukraїnka Junior and Senior Visiting Fellowships, named after Ukrainian writer, poet, and feminist Lesia Ukraїnka (pen name of Larysa Kosach, 1872-1913), are awarded every academic year to outstanding scholars in the social sciences and humanities to support their research and development.
These fellowships are open to those whose scholarship addresses global issues in culture, society, or politics with reference to the Ukrainian past and present. Projects that consider feminism, literary history, anti-imperialism, and illness and disability—key facets of Lesia Ukrainka’s life and work—are particularly welcome.
Eligibility
Candidates for the Lesia Ukrainka Junior Visiting Fellowship
- must be enrolled in a doctoral program in the humanities or social sciences or have obtained a PhD in the same fields in the past four years.
Preference will be given to candidates currently based in Ukraine.
Senior visiting fellowships in this program are granted by invitation only.
Conditions
The Junior Visiting Fellowship lasts four months and can be spent at the IWM in Vienna between September 2025 and June 2026. Postdoctoral candidates––i.e., those who have defended their PhD by the date of the fellowship application deadline––will receive a stipend of EUR 3,300 per month; candidates currently pursuing their doctoral degree will receive a stipend of EUR 2,750 per month. These stipends are intended to cover accommodation, living expenses, travel, health insurance, and any incidental costs related to fellows’ stay in Vienna.
In addition, the IWM provides visiting fellows with office space, including internet access, in-house research and administrative facilities, as well as other services free of charge. The visiting fellows will join the scholarly community and participate in the activities of the Institute. Generally, fellowships start on the first day of the month and end on the last day of the month.
Mariia Shynkarenko
Research Associate, Ukraine in European Dialogue
Lesia Ukraїnka (1872-1913) was one of Ukraine’s most distinguished writers and intellectuals. Emerging as a prominent modernist writer in fin-de-siècle Ukraine, which was then divided between the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires, Ukraїnka was a pioneering feminist, a social-democratic and anticolonial activist, and a global thinker.
