Dr. Petro Kuzyk is an Assistant Professor of the International Relations and Diplomatic Service Department at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. He graduated from the Faculty of International Relations of the same University in 1999. During 1998-2001 he worked for the Verkhovna Rada Intern Program run by the U.S. Association of the Former Members of Congress and also was an Assistant to MP and an adviser to the Verkhovna Rada Inter-Parliamentary Relations Department in Kyiv. In 2002-2003 Petro Kuzyk completed an MA course in Political Philosophy at the University of York (UK). Shortly afterwards he defended his Kandydat Nauk dissertation on nationalism in Eastern Europe in Lviv. During 2006-2010 Petro Kuzyk was enrolled on a PhD program at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, with a project on Ukrainian societal cleavages and geopolitical choices. In 2017-2019 he was a Coordinator of the Lviv Democracy School of the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy. During 2003-2006 and since 2011 onwards he has taught at the Faculty of International Relations of the Ivan Franko University. Petro Kuzyk’s research interests include post-communist transformation in the Eastern and Central Europe, Ukraine’s democratization and nation-building, nationalism, and Ukraine’s foreign policy and security. In 2025-2026 he will be a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University.
Petro Kuzyk
Visiting Scholar, Russian and East European Institute
