Dr. Ewa Sułek is an art historian, curator, sculptor, and writer. Her research examines contemporary Ukrainian art with a particular focus on memory, loss, displacement, the body, gender, and postcolonial perspectives. Her recent projects include "In Transition: Rupture and Loss in Contemporary Ukrainian Art" and "Space of Transformation: Contemporary Art Centres in Kyiv." She has also published on Ukrainian art produced during the Russian war against Ukraine, with a special emphasis on corporeality and gender, including the study "Observing the Bodies: Examination of the Experience of War and Trauma" (in Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance) and "Sculpture Series" (Slavic Review).
Dr. Sułek, who was a visiting scholar at the Davis Center in 2023-2025, is the author of two books about the Russia-Ukraine war, published in Polish and Ukrainian. She has received several honors, including the Fulbright Junior Research Award at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and a visiting research position in Ukrainian studies at the University of Cambridge. She also served as a DAAD PRIME postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where she currently serves as a Humboldt Research Postdoctoral Fellow.
Beyond her academic work, Dr. Sułek is the co-founder of the Lescer Art Center in Zalesie Górne, Poland, and the Ukrainian Environmental Humanities Network. She divides her time between Boston and Berlin.
Last updated February 2026.
