A competition has been announced in Kyiv for the best design of a monument to James Mace, the distinguished American researcher of the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine, Interfax-Ukraine reports. According to the Kyiv City Administration’s press service, the monument will be installed on Kontraktova Ploshcha, to the left of the entrance of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’s new building.
The competition closes on Oct. 28. A prize fund worth UAH 15,000 has been established. The results of the competition will be announced by Nov. 2.
James Mace, the American political scientist who conducted research on the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine, moved in the early 1990s to Ukraine, where he taught at the Department of Political Science at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and worked for Den’s English-language digest, The Day, from 1998 to 2004.
In 2005 Den/The Day published Day and Eternity of James Mace, dedicated to Mace. The book consists of three sections: Mace’s articles published between 1994 and 2003, and columns written in 1998-2004, and reminiscences written by Kateryna Yushchenko, Stanislav Kulchytsky, Yuriy Shapoval, Volodymyr Panchenko, Natalia Fedushchak, Yevhen Sverstiuk, Klara Gudzyk, Yuriy Shcherbak, and other contributors.
James Mace died in May 2004 at the age of 52. In connection with the 10 th anniversary of the Constitution of Ukraine, Prof. Mace was posthumously awarded the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 2nd degree. The mayor of Kyiv, Leonid Chernovetsky, presented the award to Mace’s widow Natalia Dziubenko.
