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Dr. Andrey Shlyakhter has been selected as the Temerty Post-Doctoral Fellow in Holodomor Studies at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, ��������. Dr. Shlyakhter’s research seeks to explain why more people survived the famine along Soviet Ukraine’s western border than in the interior of the republic and explores the implications of this disparity for our understanding of the Holodomor and of the Soviet system. Dr. Shlyakhter accepted an opportunity to teach a course on the Holodomor at Columbia University; therefore, HREC/CIUS agreed to defer the start of this fellowship for one year.

Andrey Shlyakhter is a historian of the Soviet Union and its neighbours, specializing in the interwar period. His research explores how the interaction of economics, security, and ideology at the Soviet border shaped states and societies on both sides. Dr. Shlyakhter received his PhD in 2020 from the Department of History of the University of Chicago with the dissertation “Smuggler states: Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and contraband trade across the Soviet frontier, 1919–1924,” which was honoured with a 2021 Ab Imperio Annual Award and was a finalist for the 2022 Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History. This work underpins his book project, Smuggled Goods, Soviet Borders: Contraband Trade and the Making of the Soviet System, 1917–1930. In 2025/26, as the Temerty Post-Doctoral Fellow in Holodomor Studies, he will pursue the subject “Borderness and famine: Why did more people survive the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine’s western border districts, and what does this reveal about the interwar Soviet state?”

The Temerty Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Holodomor Studies at the ��������, organized by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies together with the , supports the study of and expansion of knowledge about the Holodomor. Fellows may represent disciplines including but not confined to history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and literature, as well as famine studies, genocide studies, and rural studies. Interdisciplinary and comparative projects are considered. The Temerty Fellow may be co-hosted at the �������� by one of the following departments: Anthropology, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, Political Science, Sociology, and History, Classics, and Religion. In addition to working on a research project, the Temerty Fellow participates in the programming and activities of HREC, including the organization of a workshop or conference in the area of her/his research. The Temerty Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Holodomor Studies is made possible by funding from the Temerty Foundation.