Paul Robert Magocsi is an American professor of history

History

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, political science

Political science

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, and Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto

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

World Congress of Rusyns

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, and has authored many books on Rusyn

Rusyns

Carpatho-Rusyns are a primarily diasporic ethnic group who speak an Eastern Slavic language, or Ukrainian dialect, known as Rusyn. Carpatho-Rusyns descend from a minority of Ruthenians who did not adopt the use of the ethnonym "Ukrainian" in the early twentieth century...

 history.

Born in Englewood, New Jersey

Englewood, New Jersey

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, Magocsi is of partial Rusyn descent. He completed his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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 B.A. in 1966, M.A. 1967, Princeton University

Princeton University

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 in M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1972. He then went to Harvard University

Harvard University

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, where he was a member of the Society of Fellows

Harvard Society of Fellows

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 between 1973 and 1976.

Magosci has taught at Harvard University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1996 he was appointed permanent fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences.

Selected books and publications

Among his over 675 publications are 30 books including:

• (1978) The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus’, 1848–1948, Harvard University Press
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  . ISBN 0-674-80579-8
• (1983) Galicia: A Historical Survey and Bibliographic Guide (Toronto: University of Toronto Press
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• (1993, 2003) Historic Atlas of east Central/Central Europe (University of Washington Press)
• (1993, 2002)
• (1996) A History of Ukraine (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) ISBN 0802008305
• (1999) Of the Making of Nationalities There is no End (2 vols) (Columbia University Press
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• (1999) Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples, 1999, University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802029388
• (2002) "The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia As Ukraine's Piedmont", University of Toronto Press, 2002, ISBN 0802047386
• (2002) I. I. Pop, Paul Robert Magocsi, Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture, University of Toronto Press, 2002, ISBN 0802035663