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| Gregorij Kozak | |
|---|---|
| Name | Gregorij Kozak |
| Birth date | 1968 |
| Birth place | Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Historian; Curator; Author |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Alma mater | Lviv University |
| Notable works | The Borderlands Archive; Treaty Collections of Galicia |
Gregorij Kozak is a Ukrainian historian, archivist, and curator noted for his work on Central European borderlands, archival preservation, and cultural restitution. He has held positions at major institutions and contributed to scholarship on Galicia, Austro-Hungarian administration, and Polish–Ukrainian relations. His career spans curatorial projects, monographs, and international collaborations involving museums, archives, and universities.
Kozak was born in Lviv when the city was part of the Ukrainian SSR and grew up amid the late Soviet and early post‑Soviet cultural revival linked to institutions such as Lviv University and the Shevchenko Scientific Society. He studied history at Lviv University and completed postgraduate work focusing on archival sources related to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Second Polish Republic at research centers affiliated with the National Museum in Kraków and the University of Warsaw. His mentors included scholars associated with the Polish Academy of Sciences and researchers from the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Kozak began his professional career at the Lviv State Historical Archive where he worked on cataloguing collections connected to the administrations of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria and the Habsburg Monarchy. He later joined curatorial teams at the Lviv National Museum, collaborated with the Museum of the History of Religion and served as a visiting researcher at the Jagiellonian University and the University of Vienna. He has been involved in joint projects with the Polish Institute of National Remembrance, the Austrian State Archives, and the European Council programs for cultural heritage. Kozak also taught courses at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and supervised doctoral students affiliated with the Central European University.
Kozak's major publications include monographs and edited volumes synthesizing archival evidence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire periphery studies, and the interwar Second Polish Republic administrative records. He produced critical editions of treaty collections and municipal registers connected to the Galicia region and curated exhibitions tracing the history of border communities between the Kingdom of Hungary and the Russian Empire. His projects emphasized provenance research in holdings of the Lviv National Museum, the Polish Library in Paris, and the State Historical Museum collections, contributing to debates addressed by the International Council of Museums and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. He led digitization initiatives funded by the European Commission and coordinated cross‑border archival exchanges with the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Slovak National Library.
Kozak received awards and fellowships from institutions including the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Cultural Forum, and the Open Society Foundations. His exhibition projects were honored by the European Museum of the Year Competition jury and received citations from the International Council on Archives and the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture. He was a recipient of research grants supported by the Humboldt Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for collaborative projects with scholars at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.
Kozak resides in Lviv and maintains professional ties across Central Europe with regular visits to the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Austria, and the Slovak Republic. He is married to a cultural manager who has worked with the Lviv Heritage Office and they have collaborated on public history initiatives with the Lviv City Council and the Polish Cultural Institute. Kozak speaks Ukrainian, Polish, German, and English and participates in forums organized by the European Cultural Foundation and the Baltic–Black Sea Forum.
Kozak's work influenced policies on archival access and restitution debated within the European Union framework and shaped curriculum in regional studies programs at the Jagiellonian University and the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. His digitization methodologies were adopted by the Austrian State Archives and the Polish Digital Library for cross‑institutional interoperability. Scholars affiliated with the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Polish Academy of Sciences cite his edited source collections in studies of borderland identities and administrative history. His exhibitions fostered partnerships between the Lviv National Museum and institutions such as the Museum of European Cultures, the National Museum in Kraków, and the Ethnographic Museum networks across Central and Eastern Europe.
Category:1968 births Category:Ukrainian historians Category:Museum curators