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Antonina Kolodii

Title and degree:

  • Doctor Philosophskih nauk, Professor

Education:

  • 1988-1990 — Postgraduate Student (Doctorantura), Moscow  State University. Making Doctoral dissertation.
  • 1968-1971 — Postgraduate Student (Aspirantura), Institute of General History AS USSR, Moscow.
  • 1963-1968 — Student of Historical Faculty, Moscow  State University. Speciality by diploma: Teacher of history, knowing foreign language (English).

Job positions:

  • October 2000 / present — Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (full-time)
  • 2000 - present — Professor of the Chair of Political Science, Department of Arts and Social Sciences, National University “Kyiv Mohyla Academy” (part-time);
  • 1997-present — Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Journalism, Ivan Franko National Lviv University (part-time);
  • 1971 / October 2000 — Assistant Professor / Associate Professor / Professor of Political Science, State University "Lviv Polytechnic" (till 1994 - Lviv Polytechnic Institute)

Current Research Themes

  • On the Way to Civic Nation: National Consolidation in Ukraine and Experience of Other Countries.

Courses taught:

  • Political Science
  • Political Parties and Electoral Process
  • Theory and Practice of Civil Society

Other activities:

  • 2000 – present — editing the textbook “DEMOCRACY: values, isnstitutions, counteractions” written by 20 authors from all regions of Ukraine (Canadian-Ukrainian project: “Democracy education”).
  • 2000-2001 ðð. — Work on the course “Civil Society: Theory and Practice” within Curriculum Development Program, Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)
  • 2001-2002 — collaboration with independent cultural-political magazine “Ï” (as an author, curator and translator)
  • September 30 - December 15,1999 — Study trip to Queens University (Ontario, Kanada) within the Ukrainian-Canadian Project “Democracy Education”.
  • 1997 - 1998 – Accomplishment of individual research project “Civil society and political development in Ukraine” (Research Support Scheme of OSI/HESP, Prague).
  • 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 (July-August) — Participation in the International Summer School in Political Science and International Relations (financed by Stephan Batory & Ford Foundations; Mierki and Crynica Gorska, Poland).
  • 1994 (September-December) — A Visiting Scholar to the Center for Foreign Policy Development, at Watson Institute, Brown University (Providence, RA, USA). Fulbright Exchange Program.

Languages:

  • Ukrainian (native)
  • Russian (fluent)
  • English (proficient)

Office addresses:

Chair of Political Science
Ivan Franko National Lviv University		 Department of Modern Ethnology
Institute of Ethnology, NAS of Ukraine
Universytetska Street 1
79000  Lviv  Ukraine
phone: (380) (322) 794 340		 Prospect Svobody 15
79000   Lviv   Ukraine
phone: (380) (322) 727 012

Some of the latest publications:

Problems and Prospects of Civil Society in Contemporary Ukraine / Development of Democracy in Ukraine. A collection of Research Papers. Proceedings of International Conference— Kyiv, 30 September - 1 October 2000.

Political Science. — Ed. by A. Kolodii (written by: A. Kolodii, L. Klimanskaya, Y. Kosmyna, W. Kharchenko). A textbook for university students. — Kiev: Elga-H; Nika-Centr, 2000. — 582 p.

Nation as a Political Actor. — Lviv: Kalvaria, 1997 (in Ukrainian)

Essentials in Political Science. Texts of Lectures. Ed. by W. Kharchenko, A. Kolodii, L. Kliman­skaya. — Lviv, 1994. Part 1,2 ( in Ukrainian).

Social Justice: Problems of Theory and Practice. — Lviv: Svit, 1991. 200p. (in Russian).

Development of Civil Society / A chapter to the textbook: "Essentials of Democracy" (accepted for publication by Canadian-Ukrainian Project "Democracy Education")

The Presidential Election in Ukraine: Mirror of a Society in Transition (with the assistance of S. D. Shenfield) / On-line publication // Johnson's Russia List,  #4028, 12 January 2000; The Ukraine List (UKL) —  # 71, complied by Dominique Arel, 20 Jan 2000 (in English)

To the Question of the Typology and Genesis of Nations. — In the bulletin: Ukrainian National Idea: Realities and Perspectives. —  Lviv: SU “Lviv Polytechnic, 2000 (in Ukrainian).

To the Question of Political Regime in Ukraine: an Attempt of Transitional Approach // Suchasnist. 1999. —  No. 7-8 (in Ukrainian).

Theoretical Approa­ches and Empirical Models of Civil Society: the Problem of Congruence / In the book: Civil Society as Manifestation of Liberty: Central and East-European Experience. — Lviv, 1999. (In Ukrainian)

From Election to Election: Society and Authorities in Ukraine at the Stage of Transition / In the book: “Lviv Region – 98: Social Portrait In All-Ukrainian Context”. — Lviv, 1999. —  P. 286-341. (In Ukrainian)

Civil Life in America: Lessons for Transitional Society in Ukraine / In the book: Integration of Ukraine into the World Community. — Ê., 1999. — P.97-113. (in English)

Civil Society and Political System in Ukraine before the Election 1998 (in collaboration with Natalia Chernysh) — In the book: Election-98. Parties and Electorate in the Pre-election Period. — Lviv, 1998. — P.4-77 (in Ukrainian).

Civil Society as a Background for Interethnic Tolerance  // Ukrainski varianty (Ukrainian Variants), 1998, No. 3. (In Ukrainian).

Peculiarities of Transitional Period and Selection of Democratic Institutions in Ukraine. — In the book: "Political Process in Ukraine: Present Situation and Perspectives for Future Develop­ment”. — Lviv: PAIS, 1999. P. 46-55. (In Ukrainian).

Election 1998 and Civil Society Formation  in Ukraine // Ukrainian Variants, 1998, No. 2. (In Ukrainian).

Democratic Nationalism and Liberalism about Personal and National Rights // Ukrainian Variants, 1997, No. 2. (In Ukrainian).

Political Spectrum of Post-Communist Countries and the Prospects for Structuralisation of Loyal Opposition (a Case of Ukraine). — In the book: Political Opposition: International Experience and Ukrainian Practice. Kiev, 1996 (in Ukrainian).

Political Spectrum: about Some Criteria of “Right” and “Left” Political Movements in Post-Communist Countries // Philosofska i Sociologichna Dumka  (Philosophical and Sociological Thought). 1995. No. 9-10 (Kiev, in Ukrainian and Russian).

Antonina Kolodii

 

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