1 February – 31 May 2014
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Vitaliy Mykhailovkiy, Doctor of Historical Sciences, associate professor of the Chair of Ukrainian History of the Institute of Society is having an internship in Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Academic has received a grant for writing a research on "Formation of Regional Elite in Ukraine in the second part of the 14th and first part of the 17 centuries".

Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. The University, which is based in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, has an enrollment of over 20,000 degree candidates, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Harvard has more than 360,000 alumni around the world. It was named after the College's first benefactor, the young minister John Harvard of Charlestown, who upon his death in 1638 left his library and half his estate to the institution.

Founded in June 1973, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) serves as a focal point for graduate and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing research in Ukrainian language, literature, and history as well as in anthropology, archaeology, art history, economics, political science, sociology, theology, and other disciplines.