Orysia Kulick is completing her book How Ukraine Ruled Russia: Regionalism and Party Politics after Stalin, which is about regional elites in post-Stalin Soviet Ukraine, the personal networks that shaped its relations with Moscow, and how both influenced politics in the center of Soviet power. She has published widely in areas of Soviet history, cultural resistance, and material cultures of authoritarianism, including an exhibition catalogue on “War and Revolution: 100 years of Cultural Opposition in Ukraine.” Her recent piece “Gender and violence in Ukraine: changing how we bear witness to war,” was awarded the 2023 Heldt Prize for best article by the Association for Women and Slavic Studies (AWSS).

She has made several research trips to Ukraine in the last few years, most recently in March/April 2025 as scholar in residence at INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange in Lviv. Having returned since then to her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Orysia is exploring new genres in her writing, reconnecting with her musical roots, and resuming her work at the Ukrainian Museum-Archives, where she catalogues collections related to displaced persons and the Second World War.