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American historian
Paul Robert Magocsi
Paul Robert Magocsi in 2013
Born (1945-01-26 ) January 26, 1945 (age 79) 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 Prešov 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.
doi :
10.1017/S006723780001910X .
S2CID
144778333 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2019-03-19 .
Magocsi, Paul R. (1975).
"The Ruthenian Decision to Unite with Czechoslovakia" (PDF) . Slavic Review . 34 (2): 360–381.
doi :
10.2307/2495193 .
JSTOR
2495193 .
S2CID
155615547 . Archived from
the original (PDF) on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2019-03-19 .
Magocsi, Paul R. (1978).
The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus', 1848-1948 . Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
ISBN
9780674805798 .
Magocsi, Paul R. (1983).
Galicia: A Historical Survey and Bibliographic Guide . Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
ISBN
9780802024824 .
Magocsi, Paul R. (1984).
Our people: Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descendants in North America (1. ed.). Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario.
ISBN
9780919045224 .
Magocsi, Paul R. (1988).
Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1975-1984 . Vol. 1. New York: Garland.
ISBN
9780824012144 .
Magocsi, Paul R. (1988).
The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans (1. ed.). New York-Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
ISBN
9780877548669 .
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.
ISBN
9780880332781 .
Magocsi, Paul R. (1993).
Historical Atlas of East Central Europe (1. ed.). Seattle: University of Washington Press.
ISBN
9780802006073 .
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.
ISBN
9780802078209 .
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.
ISBN
9780880333887 .
Magocsi, Paul R. (1999). Of the Making of Nationalities There is no End . Vol. 1. New York: Columbia University Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. (1999). Of the Making of Nationalities There is no End . Vol. 2. New York: Columbia University Press.
Magocsi, Paul R. , ed. (1999).
Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples . Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
ISBN
9780802029386 .
Magocsi, Paul R. (2002).
The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont . Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
ISBN
9780802047380 .
Magocsi, Paul R. ; Pop, Ivan I., eds. (2002).
Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture (1. ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
ISBN
9780802035660 .
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.
ISBN
978-0253006318 .
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.
ISBN
9786155053467 .
See also
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