Mayhill Fowler

Mayhill C. Fowler, PhD, is professor of history at Stetson. She is also 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), which is now in Ukrainian translation (Rodovid, 2025). 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 Czyzewski’s Toward Xenopolis: Visions from the Borderland (Rochester, 2022). She is a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in New York and on the academic organizing committee of the Danyliw Seminar in Ukrainian Studies. She also holds an MFA in Acting from the National Theater Conservatory and is a former actress.