Paul Robert Magocsi
Paul Robert Magocsi in 2013
Born (1945-01-26 ) January 26, 1945 (age 75) Nationality Hungarian , Rusyn American Known for History of Ukraine Scientific career Fields History
Paul Robert Magocsi (born January 26, 1945 in Englewood, New Jersey ) is an American professor of history , political science , and Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto . He has been with the university since 1980, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996.[1] He currently acts as Honorary Chairman of the World Congress of Rusyns , and has authored many books on Rusyn history.[2]
Born in Englewood, New Jersey, Magocsi (his surname Magocsi is pronounced something like "magótchy", varying in different languages) is of Hungarian and Ruthenian (Rusyn) descent.[3] He completed his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University B.A. in 1966; M.A. 1967, Princeton University in M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1972.[clarification needed ] He then went to Harvard University , where he was a member of the Society of Fellows between 1973 and 1976.[1] In 2013 he was awarded doctor honoris causa by the University of Presov in Slovakia.[4]
Magocsi has taught at Harvard University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . In 1996 he was appointed permanent fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences.[5] [6]
Besides his primary focus on East-Central European history, Magocsi is a scholar of nationality and ethnicity more generally, and edited the collection Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: A Short Introduction (2002).
Selected books and publications
Among his over 675 publications, some of the most notable are:
Magocsi, Paul R. (1973). "An Historiographical Guide to Subcarpathian Rus' " (PDF) . Austrian History Yearbook . 9 : 201-265. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-12-05. Retrieved .
Magocsi, Paul R. (1975). "The Ruthenian Decision to Unite with Czechoslovakia" (PDF) . Slavic Review . 34 (2): 360-381. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-28. Retrieved .
Magocsi, Paul R. (1978). The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus', 1848-1948 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. (1983). Galicia: A Historical Survey and Bibliographic Guide . Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. (1984). Our people: Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descendants in North America (1. ed.). Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
Magocsi, Paul R. (1988). Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1975-1984 . 1 . New York: Garland.
Magocsi, Paul R. (1988). The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans (1. ed.). New York-Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
Magocsi, Paul R. (1990). "Magyars and Carpatho-Rusyns: On the Seventieth Anniversary of the Founding of Czechoslovakia" . Harvard Ukrainian Studies . 14 (3-4): 427-460.
Magocsi, Paul R. (1993). The Rusyns of Slovakia: An Historical Survey . New York: Columbia University Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. (1993). Historical Atlas of East Central Europe (1. ed.). Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. , ed. (1996). A New Slavic Language Is Born: The Rusyn Literary Language of Slovakia . New York: Columbia University Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. (1996). A History of Ukraine (1. ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Petrov, Aleksei L. (1998) [1930]. Magocsi, Paul R. (ed.). Medieval Carpathian Rus': The Oldest Documentation About the Carpatho-Rusyn Church and Eparchy . New York: Columbia University Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. (1999). Of the Making of Nationalities There is no End . 1 . New York: Columbia University Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. (1999). Of the Making of Nationalities There is no End . 2 . New York: Columbia University Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. , ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples . Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. (2002). The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont . Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. ; Pop, Ivan I., eds. (2002). Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture (1. ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. ; Pop, Ivan I., eds. (2005) [2002]. Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture (2. rev. ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. (2013). "Carpathian Rus': Interethnic Coexistence without Violence". Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands . Bloomington-Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 449-462.
Magocsi, Paul R. (2015). With Their Backs to the Mountains: A History of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns . Budapest-New York: Central European University Press.See also
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