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Paul Robert Magocsi (born January 26, 1945 in
Englewood, New Jersey Englewood is a city in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, which at the 2020 United States census had a population of 29,308. Englewood was incorporated as a city by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 17, 1899, from por ...
) 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. He currently acts as Honorary Chairman of the
World Congress of Rusyns World Congress of Rusyns ( rue, Світовый конґрес русинів / Svitovŷj kongres rusyniv) is the central event of the international Rusyn community. Its executive committee is called the ''World Council of Rusyns'' and currently h ...
, 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 B.A. in 1966; M.A. 1967, Princeton University in M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1972. He then went to Harvard University, where he was a member of the Society of Fellows between 1973 and 1976. In 2013 he was awarded doctor honoris causa by the University of Prešov in Slovakia. 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 The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...
Canadian 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: * * * * * ** *** **** * ** *** **** ***** * ** * * * ** *** * * ** * * * * * * ** * *


See also

* Rusyns *
Ruthenia Ruthenia or , uk, Рутенія, translit=Rutenia or uk, Русь, translit=Rus, label=none, pl, Ruś, be, Рутэнія, Русь, russian: Рутения, Русь is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin as one of several terms ...


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 {{Canada-academic-bio-stub