Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Cultural and Intellectual
- Europe
- Migration/Diaspora
- Religion and Society
- State, Politics, and Law
Biography
Paul Robert Magocsi is professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto, where since 1980 he also holds the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies.
He completed his education at Rutgers University (B.A. 1966; M.A. 1967), Princeton University (M.A. 1969; Ph.D. 1972), and Harvard University (Society of Fellows 1976). He is a member of the Harvard University Society of Fellows (1976). Professor Magocsi has taught at Harvard University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Prešov University in Slovakia, and on five occasions was historian-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. In 1996 he was appointed a permanent fellow of the Royal Society of Canada—Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, and has been awarded honorary degrees from Prešov University in Slovakia (doctor honoris causa, 2013) and from Kamianets-Podilskyi National University in Ukraine (pochesnyi profesor, 2015).
Interested in the history of nationalism, in particular among ethnic groups living in border areas. Has published in the fields of history, sociolinguistics, bibliography, cartography and immigration studies.
Education
Publications
- Jews and Ukrainians: A Millennium of Co-Existence (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 2016)
- The Persistence of Regional Cultures ( : 2016)
- With Their Back to the Mountains: A History of Carpathian Rus’ and Carpatho-Rusyns (Central European Press : 2015)
- Let's Speak Rusyn—Bisidujme po-rus'kŷ/rusyn’skŷ (Carpatho-Rusyn Research Center : 2015)
- This Blessed Land: Crimea and the Crimean Tatars (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 2014)
- Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, Volume V: 2005-2009 (East European Monographs; Annotated edition : 2012)
- A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples - Second Edition (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 2010)
- Ukraine – An Illustrated History (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 2007)
- The People From Nowhere (Padiak : 2006)
- Our People: Carpatho-Rusyns and Their Descendants in North America (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers : 2005)
- Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 2005)
- The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 2002)
- Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples ( University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 2002)
- The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans (Chelsea House Publishers : 2001)
- Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 1999)
- Of the Making of Nationalities There is No End (East European Monographs : 1999)
- The Russian Americans (Chelsea House Publishers : 1996)
- A New Slavic Language Is Born (East European Monographs : 1993)
- Morality and Reality: The Life and Times of Andrei Sheptyts'kyi (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Study Press : 1989)
- Ukraine: A Historical Atlas (University of Toronto Press : 1986)
- The Rusyn-Ukrainians of Czechoslovakia (W. Braumuller : 1983)
- Galicia: A Historical Survey and Bibliographic Guide (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division : 1983)
- Wooden Churches in the Carpathians (New Academic Press : 1982)
- The Ukrainian Experience in the United States (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute : 1979)
- The Shaping of a National Identity (Harvard University Press : 1978)
- Historical Atlas of Central Europe (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division)