Paul Robert Magocsi (born January 26, 1945 in
Englewood, New Jersey) is an American professor of
history
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,
political science
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, and Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 ...
. He has been with the university since 1980, and became a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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in 1996.
He currently acts as Honorary Chairman of the
World Congress of Rusyns, and has authored many books on
Rusyn history.
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. He completed his undergraduate studies at
Rutgers University
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B.A. in 1966; M.A. 1967,
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
in M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1972. He then went to
Harvard University
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, where he was a member of the
Society of Fellows between 1973 and 1976.
In 2013 he was awarded
doctor honoris causa
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by the
University of Prešov in Slovakia.
Magocsi has taught at Harvard University and the
Hebrew University
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
in
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
. In 1996 he was appointed permanent fellow of the
Royal Society of CanadaCanadian Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences.
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:
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Rusyns
Rusyns (), also known as Carpatho-Rusyns (), or Rusnaks (), are an East Slavic ethnic group from the Eastern Carpathians in Central Europe. They speak Rusyn, an East Slavic language variety, treated variously as either a distinct langu ...
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Ruthenia
References
1945 births
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American people of Rusyn descent
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Historians of Ukraine
University of Toronto faculty
Rutgers University alumni
Princeton University alumni
Harvard Fellows
American people of Hungarian descent
American expatriate academics
American expatriates in Canada
Slavists
Ukrainian studies
Scholars of nationalism
Ukrainianists
Rusyn people
American male non-fiction writers
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