Paul Robert Magocsi (; born January 26, 1945) 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
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. 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, 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
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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
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.
Magocsi has taught at Harvard University and the
Hebrew University
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in
Jerusalem
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. In 1996, he was appointed permanent fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada
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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).
In 2024 his history course ''Ukraine: A History Course'', consisting of 45 lectures recorded by the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, was published on YouTube.
In 2025 a Festschrift consisting of 183 testimonials, ''In So Many Words: Celebrating Paul Robert Magocsi'', Edited by Nicholas Kupensky, was published.
Selected books and publications
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Rusyns
Rusyns, also known as Carpatho-Rusyns, Carpatho-Russians, Ruthenians, or Rusnaks, are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group from the Carpathian Rus', Eastern Carpathians in Central Europe. They speak Rusyn language, Rusyn, an East Slavic lan ...
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Ruthenia
''Ruthenia'' is an exonym, originally used in Medieval Latin, as one of several terms for Rus'. Originally, the term ''Rus' land'' referred to a triangular area, which mainly corresponds to the tribe of Polans in Dnieper Ukraine. ''Ruthenia' ...
References
External links
Paul Robert Magocsiat
University of Toronto
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, Department for History
Paul Robert Magocsiat
Munk School
Caparto-Rusy Research Center
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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
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
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