Graduated from Franko State University of Lviv in 1980. In 1988, she defended her dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences (PhD equivalent) on the topic: “The Problem of Women’s Emancipation in the Socio-Political and Cultural-Educational Life of Galicia and Bukovyna in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries.” In 2007, she defended her doctoral dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences (habilitation equivalent) on the topic: “The Ideology and Social Practice of the Women’s Movement in Western Ukrainian Lands in the 19th and First Third of the 20th Century: Typology and the European Cultural-Historical Context.”
Since 1990, she has worked in the Department of History and Theory of Art at the Lviv National Academy of Arts. She was appointed Associate Professor in 1992 and Professor in 2011.
Research interests: history of the Ukrainian women’s movement, gender studies, history of Ukrainian and world culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, cultural theory.
Participation in grant programs:
– Grant from the International Renaissance Foundation and the State Committee of Ukraine for Family and Youth Affairs for the publication of the reader “Women in History” (2001).
– Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for the publication of the monograph “The Ideology and Social Practice of the Women’s Movement in Western Ukrainian Lands in the 19th and First Third of the 20th Century: Typology and the European Cultural-Historical Context” (2004).
– Grant from the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History for the research project “Art of the Age of Modernism in Galicia” (March 1, 2023).