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:
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See also
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Rusyns
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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
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