VUSHKO, Iryna

Max Weber Programme, 2008-2009

From September 2009:

Post-doctoral Fellow
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Iryna Vushko holds a Ph.D. in history from Yale University, and an M.A. in history from the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. During the 2006-2006 academic year, she was a junior research fellow in the Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

Her main fields of interests include the history of modern East-Central Europe, history of state building, the Enlightenment, empire and nation in modern Europe. Her dissertation, Enlightened Absolutism, Imperial Bureaucracy and Provincial Society: the Austrian Project to Transform Galicia, 1772-1815 analyzes the integration of Galicia, the formerly Polish region annexed by the Habsburg monarchy in 1772.

The main focus of the dissertation is upon the Austrian imperial bureaucracy as an instrument of integration. This research is designed as one example of the history of state building in modern Europe, within the context of Empire. She has also started a new project, tentatively titled From Politicum to Policing: the Foundation of the Modern Police in East-Central Europe, 1740-1914.

One broad goal of Iryna Vushko’s research is to transcend the exclusive focus on nationalism in the historiography of East-Central Europe, and incorporate the region into the general narrative of European history by analyzing institutions and administrative practices in the modern period.

As a Max Weber fellow, Iryna Vushko plans to revise her dissertation, preparing a manuscript for publication. Her main fields of teaching interests include history of East-Central Europe, Enlightenment, and history of state building in modern Europe.

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