
Mayhill Fowler
Dr. Mayhill C. Fowler is associate professor in the Department of History at Stetson University, affiliated faculty in the Program in Theater Studies at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, and an affiliated researcher with the Center for Urban History in Lviv. She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, and has held fellowships at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the University of Toronto, and was a Fulbright scholar to Ukraine 2019-2020. She has published widely on culture in Ukraine, including her book Beau Monde on Empire's Edge: State and Stage in Soviet Ukraine (Toronto, 2017). She is currently working on two projects: a book on women in theater in Ukraine across the long 20th century, Theatre Women: Place and Performance in 20th Century Ukraine, and a biography of the former Soviet Army Theater in Lviv, A Theater of Silence: War and Memory in Ukraine. She is the editor of Krzysztof Czyżewski’s Toward Xenopolis: Visions from the Borderland (Rochester, 2022). She also holds an MFA in Acting from the National Theater Conservatory and is a former actress.