Tetiana Hoshko (Zaitseva) is a Professor at the Department of History, Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. She explores the history of towns and town law in the Ukrainian lands of the 14th-17th centuries. In 1999, she defended her Candidate of Science dissertation Magdeburg Law in East-Central Europe in the 13th-18th centuries in Polish and Ukrainian Historiography at the Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Sources’ Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv). In 2019, she defended her Doctor of Science dissertation Anthropology of Towns and Town Law in the Ruthenian Lands of the Crown of Poland, 14th-17th Centuries at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Tetiana Hoshko has received numerous international grants, including the Shklar Fellowship at the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, Research Fellowships of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (2008, 2013, 2020), of the German Historical Institute in Warsaw (2021), grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (2001/2002), from Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York (2016), etc. In 2015, she was a consultant to the research project The Jagiellonians: Dynasty, Memory, Identity (Oxford University). Professor Hoshko is the author of the monographs Municipal Self-government in Ukrainian Lands in the 14th-16th Centuries (2000), Essays on the History of Magdeburg Law in Ukraine, 14th – Early 17th Centuries (2002), and Custom and Rights: Sources, Commentary, Studies, vol. 1: The Anthropology of Towns and Town Law in the Ruthenian Lands from the 14th to the mid-17th Century (2019). The second volume of the two-volume publication, a collection of documents Municipalities and Municipal Government in Ukraine from the 14th to the 1st Half of the 17th Century, is already completed and submitted for publication in Krytyka Publishers (Kyiv).

Dr. Hoshko will be at CERES in February-March 2022 and will work on the topic “The Influence of Renaissance Humanism on the Legal Consciousness of Townspeople in the Ruthenian Lands.”