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Teaching Fields

Russian and East European politics and history, comparative politics

Research Interests

International politics and history with focus on Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and specifically Ukraine, media, migration, and post-communism.

OSCE – ODIHR Election Monitoring Mission - Parliamentary Election, Ukraine

Affiliations

Fellow, European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Munk Centre, University of Toronto Petro Jacyk Programme for the Study of Contemporary Ukraine, coordinating committee.

Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005-2006.

News

Professor Marta Dyczok co-organized and spoke at the Cambridge University Workshop, Independent Ukraine: 20 Years On. [MORE]

Marta Dyczok has been awarded a Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellowship, at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, for the autumn semester: [MORE]

On 19 September 2011 Marta participated in a Mini Symposium on Independent Ukraine 1991 to 2011 with Timothy Colton, Chair, Department of Government, Harvard University, and Oxana Shevel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tufts University, [MORE]

The Wall Street Journal published Professor Marta Dyczok's op-ed.  The Ukrainian Blues (and Yellows).What's changed and what hasn't in the 20 years since independence. [MORE]

 

Prof Marta Dyczok with Ukraine's first President, Leonid Kravchuk, Kyiv, Ukraine. 19 August 2011, the 20th anniversary of the coup that brought down the USSR. Kravchuk navigated Ukraine out of the Soviet Union and to independence, declared as soon as the coup collapsed, 24 August 1991. Ukraine is preparing to celebrate its 20th birthday!

 

Professor Marta Dyczok recalls working as a journalist in Ukraine in 1991 and looks at how things have changed. See her article in the Kyiv Post: http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/111155/

 

Professor Marta Dyczok, in Ukraine for the summer on a research trip, posted a blog on the arrest of Ukraine's Former Prime Minister. http://ukrainewatch.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/kyiv-the-day-of-tymoshenko%E2%80%99s-arrest-5-august-2011/ 

In April Dr. Marta Dyczok participated in a UWO delegation that visited Ukraine's most innovative university to further develop institutional links with the National University of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA).  The group was led by Dr. Ted Hewitt (VP Research and International Relations), and included Dr. Julie McMullin (Acting Dean, Faculty of Social Science) and Dr. Tom Carmichael (Dean, Faculty of Information and Media Studies).

Dr. Marta Dyczok spoke at a number of conferences this past academic year, including: World War II and the (Re)Creation of Historical Memory in Contemporary Ukraine An International conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 24-26, 2009, http://ww2-historicalmemory.org.ua/abstract_e.html

Ukraine 2010-2020: Politics, Geopolitics and Future Trajectories: Kyiv Conference of Western and Ukrainian Experts, 18 December 2009, http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/kuzyo/4b427e2fd6016/

For a full list, please see Presentations (below).

Dr. Marta Dyczok blogged on the Ukrainian Presidential Election 2010, please see:  Ukraine’s 2010 Election Watch Blog

Publications

Books

Media, Democracy and Freedom. The Post Communist Experience, Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe, Vol. 6, (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009).

Description

This book does what few other works have done: it examines the role media have played in the larger political, economic and social transformations in the post communist space. An international group of scholars from various disciplines explore the complex relations between media, society, and the state in this region over the past twenty years, and present theoretical arguments that challenge dominant views. They scrutinize changes in the public sphere as well as the media itself, its role, format, agenda and quality in the context of changing values and shifting power relationships.

The Grand Alliance and Ukrainian Refugees, (Basingstoke, Houndmills: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 2000).

Description

This study explores the role of refugees in international relations by looking at the largest involuntary migration of Ukrainians in history. Using both Western and newly available Soviet sources, it sheds new light on Grand Alliance policies towards Ukrainian World War II refugees. It demonstrates how the activities of this particular groups of refugees had an impact on international refugee policy and provides insight into the origins of the Cold War.

Ukraine: Change Without Movement, Movement Without Change, (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000).

Description

Ukraine has surprised many international observers. Few anticipated its declaration of independence in 1991 or its determination to move out of Russia's shadow. Dyczok redresses the continuing dearth of information on the country. Aimed at nonspecialists and specialists alike, it presents an overview of the main government policies, and the social and cultural issues facing the new state. These are placed within their historical, regional and global framework. In contrast with the generally bleak picture that international media reports present, the book suggests that Ukraine has actually accomplished a great deal in a short time. In seven years, from 1991 to 1998, Ukraine went from being a little-known nation within a non-democratic state to an internationally recognized independent country. During this period of change, it contributed to the geopolitical shift which occurred with the implosion of the Soviet Union. As such, it may be argued, Ukraine has a role to play in the search for the new international order.

Articles, Chapters in Books

Dyczok, Marta, "Do the Media Matter? Focus on Ukraine," in Marta Dyczok and Oxana Gaman-Golutvina (eds.) Media, Freedom and Democracy: The Post-Communist Experience.  (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009) http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?vID=430311&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1

Dyczok, Marta, “Ukraine’s Changing Communicative Space: Destination Europe or the Soviet Past?” in Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych and Maria G. Rewakowicz (eds.) Contemporary Ukraine and Its European Cultural Identity (New York, M. E. Sharpe, 2009) http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/resultsa.asp?Title=Contemporary+Ukraine+on+the+Cultural+Map+of+Europe

Dyczok, Marta, “Media in Ukraine: Between Revolution and Election (2004-2006),” in Andrej N. Lushnycky, and Mykola Riabchuk, (eds.) Ukraine on its Meandering Path Between East and West. Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe. Vol. 4 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2009) http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vID=11607&vLang=D

Dyczok, Marta, “Expert Commentary on Media After the Orange Revolution,” Ukraine Analyst, Vol. 1, No. 6, November 2008, p. 4.

Dyczok, Marta, “Ukraine: Politicians' Actions Toward Media Reveal Their Divergent Values,” RFE/RL Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova Report, Vol. 9, No. 1, Friday (May 18, 2007) http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/05/6810c41e-4b8f-4edf-8101-1177409d3ff2.html

Dyczok, Marta, “Was Kuchma’s Censorship Effective? Mass media in Ukraine before 2004.” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 58, No. 2 (March 2006): 215-238, http://politicalscience.uwo.ca/faculty/dyczok/dyczokeuropeasiastudies.pdf

Dyczok, Marta, “Breaking Through the Information Blockade: Election and Revolution in Ukraine 2004,” Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes Vol. XLVII, Nos. 3-4 (September-December 2005): 241-266; [Reprinted in Bohdan Harasymiw, in collaboration with Ilnytzkyj, Oleh S. (Eds.) Aspects of the Orange Revolution II. Information and Manipulation Strategies in the 2004 Ukrainian Prsidential Elections (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, vol.64) Stuttgart & Hannover: ibidem-Verlag] http://politicalscience.uwo.ca/faculty/dyczok/dyczokcsp.pdf

Media

Quoted in The Toronto Star, "Dreams of Reform Fade in Ukraine," Olivia Ward, 17 January 2010,  http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/751785--dreams-of-reform-fade-in-ukraine?bn=1

Quoted in McLeans, "A Deadly Place to be a Journalist," Kate Lunau, 17 September 2009, http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/09/17/a-deadly-place-to-be-a-journalist/

CBC Radio, The Current, Interviewed about the unfolding political crisis in Ukraine, 4 April 2007

BBC/Public Radio International, Interviewed by The World on the Anniversary of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, 22 Nov 2005

CBC, The National, Interview by Peter Mansbridge about monitoring the Third Ukrainian Presidential Election round, from Sumy Region, 26 Dec 2004

The Wall Street Journal, Op Ed Piece on Media Thaw in Ukraine, 17 Dec 2004

BBC News, Interviewed by Stephen Mulvey for “Yushchenko Sitting Pretty,” article on the Re-Vote of the Ukrainian Presidential Election, 4 Dec 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4068635.stm

Presentations

15^th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, 15-17 April 2010, Columbia University, http://www.nationalities.org/

Ukraine's 2010 Presidential Election: What We Learned, IERES, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, 5 April 2010, http://www.elliottschool.org/events/calendar.cfm?fuseaction=ViewMonthDetail&yr=2010&mon=4#1227

Revolutionary Moments. A Symposium.  Kyiv, Ukraine, 19 December 2009, http://revolutionarymoments.com/about/

Ukraine 2010-2020: Politics, Geopolitics and Future Trajectories: Kyiv Conference of Western and Ukrainian Experts, 18 December 2009, http://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/kuzyo/4b427e2fd6016/

World War II and the (Re)Creation of Historical Memory in Contemporary Ukraine An international conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, September 24-26, 2009, http://ww2-historicalmemory.org.ua/abstract_e.html

Current Research

Currently I am working on a manuscript, which looks at the role of mass media in the larger transformations in contemporary Ukraine, from the collapse of communism in 1991 to the present. Media and communications are key components of the globalization process which has come to Ukraine recently, and free speech is also generally considered critical for democracy. Thus the study looks at the changes occurring in contemporary Ukraine’s media to assess the impact it is having on politics and society engaged in a transformation. This will shed light on how communications dynamics unfold in emerging democracies and what established democracies can do to assist in this process.

I am also editing a volume of papers from a conference held at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, in summer 2007, where scholars from various European countries explored the relationship between media, freedom and democracy. My co-editor is Oxana Gaman-Golutvina from the Moscow Institute for Foreign Relations.

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