The lecturers of the Department work on the research project “Socio-political, national and ethnic processes in Western Ukrainian lands in the late 18^th – 20^th centuries” (supervised by Prof. O.M. Sukhyi). Representatives of the Department take part in conferences, they are also frequent reviewers of dissertations and contribute to the training of historians of the highest qualification. The Department offers full-time and part-time post-graduate programs. During 1995-2014, twenty-three dissertations were defended. V. S. Makarchuk, R. Ya. Berest, I. I. Fedyk, M. M. Mudryi, A. O. Malyk, I. L. Luchakivska, P. Ya. Bilian, V. V. Hulay, V. B. Blahyi, R. V. Popp, N. F. Mysak, V. F. Mandziak, H. A. Bodnar have defended their dissertation under the supervision of Prof. K. K. Kondratiuk; I. V. Kozlovskyi and A. M. Kozytskyi have defended their dissertations under the supervision of Docent Ya. I. Serkiz; V. I. Smoliy, L. I. Matiushko, A. Ya. Baylo, I. H. Lozynska, M. A. Oliynyk, O. Z. Kaminska, D. M. Kravets have defended their dissertations under the supervision of Prof. O. M. Sukhyi. R. Ya. Heneha defended his dissertation supervised by Docent M. M. Mydryi. Two doctoral dissertations have been defended under the supervision of Prof. K.K. Kondratiuk and Prof. O.M. Sukhyi.

Teaching materials published by the lecturers of the Department: “Ukrainian historiography of the late 19^th – early 20^th centuries” (K. Kondratiuk, Lviv, 2002); “Contemporary History of Ukraine. 1914-1945” (K. Kondratiuk, Lviv, 2007); “Lviv Region at the Time of Western Ukrainian People’s Republic (1918-1919)” (O. Pavlyshyn, Lviv, 2008); “Modern National Historiography of the Contemporary History of Ukraine (1914-2009)” (K. Kondratiuk, O. Sukhyi, Lviv, 2010); “Contemporary History of Ukraine. 1914-2008” (K. Kondratiuk, H. Bodnar, V. Kachmar, V. Holubko, Kyiv, 2011).

Main focus of research: national, political, social, cultural and intellectual history of Galicia in the late 19^th – early 20^th centuries. Publications: “Galicia between the East and the West. A Brief History of the 19^th – early 20^th centuries” (O. Sukhyi, Lviv, 1997; 1999); “National Idea in the Programs and Activities of Ukrainian Political Parties in Galicia (late 19^th – early 20^th centuries)” (O. Sukhyi, Lviv, 1998); “Ukrainian National Movement of the 1940s and 1950s: Ideology and Practice” (Yu. Kyrychuk, Lviv, 2003); “From the Russophiles to the Moscowphiles (the Russian factor in the public opinion and socio-political life of Galician Ukrainians in the 19^th century”) (O. Sukhyi, 2003).

“Lviv. Everyday Life of the City Through the Eyes of Migrants from the Countryside (1940-80s)” (H. Bodnar, Lviv, 2010). The Department has published a collection of documents and archival materials: “The Moscowphile Movement: documents and materials” (preface, commentary and selection of documents by O. Sukhyi) (Lviv, 2001), as well as translation from Polish of the book “Democrats in the Political Life of Galicia in 1848-1873” by Zbigniew Fras (translated by Yu. Rodyk, Yu. Sahat, O. Sukhyi, scholarly editing and afterword by O. Sukhyi). The Department offers a post-graduate program in the History of Ukraine.

The lecturers of the Department co-organized several international research conferences “Lviv: City, Society, Culture” (1998, 2002, 2006, 2010), “The year 1939 in the Historical Destiny of Ukraine and the Ukrainians” (1999), “The Deportations of 1944-1951 (dedicated to the 60^th anniversary of the Operation ‘Wisla’) (2007), “The Golden September of 1939: Liberation or Occupation?” (2009, jointly with the Ukrainian Catholic University and the Memorial Museum for the Victims of Occupational Regimes “Lącki Street Prison”) etc. The Department fosters cooperation with the Departments of History of Ukraine in other Ukrainian universities (Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Lutsk, Ostroh, Ternopil, Chernivtsi), as well as research institutions of Poland.