The researcher graduated from the Faculty of History. She was awarded her doctoral degree there in 2007. Anna Jakimyszyn-Gadocha was also awarded a scholarship of the Lanckoronski Foundation and Rothschild Foundation Europe. In 2012-2016, she was the acting deputy director at the Institute of Jewish Studies at Jagellonian University for student affairs.

While in Lviv, she finalized her work on the monograph text on hygiene and health of Jewish citizens of Lviv. The objective is to show the forms of care, the group who received it and the characteristics of Jewish institutions of social care and medical care in the interwar period.

While in Lviv, Giuseppe worked at his doctoral dissertation, which deals with the growing presence of religious signifiers in the Bucharest city scape after 1990. This process of re-signification of the space in the post-socialist Bucharest develops in material and immaterial ways: by planting crosses in specific places, erecting new churches and cathedrals as well as by thronging the streets of the capital during processions and pilgrimages. Adopting a comparative perspective, the bibliographic material offered by the Lviv Urban Center can offer precious data about the comeback of religion in Lviv’s urban space and in Ukraine at large. Moreover, Lviv’s religious composition also represents an intriguing parallel with the Romanian case, especially for what concerns the role played by Greek Catholicism during and after communist rule. In fact, at the moment the Greek Catholic Church is the only denomination beyond the Orthodox Church to build a cathedral in the country: the "Martyrs and Confessors of the XX century" cathedral is today close to be finalized in Cluj. Transylvanian cities have become a sort of an inter-denominational battleground: it is not by chance that one of the biggest Orthodox cathedral currently in the country is the one that has been freshly inaugurated in Baia Mare (northern Transylvania) in 2016.

Justyna Szymańska has studied at the University of Warsaw, where she received BA and MA in Anthropology. She was awarded with distinction for her MA thesis by Polish Academy of Science. She also held a scholarship at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Anthropology and Saxo Institute. Her research lies in the anthropology of politics, with an interest in ethnography of the state, identity, social movements and theory of affects. I have explored this in two main projects: a Master project on feminist and civil rights movements in Ukraine, and currently in doctoral project on citizenship, activism, images of the state and imagined futures in post-conflict areas of Eastern Ukraine. She has published so far three articles and a book chapter based on her ethnographic research. She also has been actively involved in teaching Anthropology at elementary and high-school level working the Association Ethnographic Laboratory in Warsaw. While in L’viv she will work on an article based on her dissertation research.

Maria received her doctorate at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg in 1994. Her PhD was based on archival research on the institution of the interregnum in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

In the last years, her focus of interest shifted towards the history of science and the hidden colonial entanglements of Polish scientists.

While in Lviv Maria will work on the anthropological school of Jan Czekanowski, the so-called Polish school, looking for continuities and discontinuities in the discipline especially during the period of extremes 1939-1944. While during the Soviet time, Lviv university still worked, the German occupation of the city marked the end of any unversitary education. However, German authorities established a branch of the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit in Lviv as a core of a future German university, using the former library and osteological collections.

Her analysis follows the concept of a science in context and will concentrate on relations between persons and institutions and their impact on the field of anthropology.The autobiographical materials available an the Center for Urban History will perfectly contribute to her study.

Maria has previously been a fellow of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw.

Dominic was trained as a social anthropologist at Cambridge, where he received his doctorate in 2016. His PhD was based on ethnographic and archival research on a religious community in the "closed" city of Bolshoi Kamen in the Russian Far East. His dissertation analyses how and why, in a city dominated by a submarine shipyard, a "revival" of the ancient dissenter tradition of Russian Orthodoxy, the Old Belief, was initiated by a group of the city's active youth. This "revival" resonated throughout the post-Soviet religious scene. Dominic has previously been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Wissenschaftzentrum für Sozialforschung, Berlin. He was in 2014-15 a Fellow for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in Tokyo.

While in Lviv Dominic worked on a book manuscript based on his dissertation research. In the two decades from the nadir of Russian power in the mid-1990s to its military reassertion in the mid-2010s, an exceptional kind of social life was incubated on Russia’s Far Eastern periphery: within a city that, during this geopolitical interphase, had a special "closed" status. Sitting within a nexus of local, federal and global political rationalities, this mono-city managed - unlike most of its counterparts - not only to survive the post-Soviet transition, but to provide a context for the fluorescence of uniquely post-Soviet kinds of sociality and religious life. The book described how and why this flourishing happened in this particular locale, in a "closed" military industrial mono-town near the Sea of Japan, with both its historic human and non-human affordances. This analysis drew on insights from comparative urban history and ethnography of (Post-)Soviet everyday life, comparative materials that are amply available at the Center for Urban History.

Kateryna studied at the Department of the History of Ukraine, Faculty of History, Politology, and International Relations at Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University. In 2016, she presented her PhD thesis there. The dissertation explores such social phenomenon in Bukovyna as social engagements during the period from 1848 to 1914. In her work, Kateryna analyzed socio-cultural changes that led to new socializing practices in the milieu of upper and middle class in Bukovyna. In particular, she studied how they followed and imitated European aristocratic and bourgeois living habits that influenced the shaping of modern lifestyles and new communication forms. According to the researcher, social engagements in Bukovyna were an important factor in the development of the modernized identity of local elite, and their attempt to overcome the feeling of their own "peripheral" belonging as compared to Vienna.

During her stay in Lviv, Kateryna will work in the archives and libraries on the text of her book based on the thesis.