Roman Szporluk ( uk, Роман Шпорлюк, ''Schporlyuk''; born 8 September 1933) is a

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political scientist and historian. He is a professor emeritus at

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and the University of Michigan. He has written several books and many papers. He is the father of poet

Larissa Szporluk Larissa Szporluk is an American poet and professor. Her most recent book is ''Embryos & Idiots'' (Tupelo Press, 2007). Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''Daedalus'', ''Faultline'', ''Meridian'', ''American Poetr ...

and novelist Ben Vendetta.

Biography

Szporluk was born in Grzymałów (

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county,

Tarnopol voivodeship Tarnopol Voivodeship ( pl, Województwo tarnopolskie) was an administrative region of interwar Poland (1918–1939), created on 23 December 1920, with an area of 16,500 km² and provincial capital in Tarnopol (now ''Ternopil'', Ukraine). The voi ...

in Poland, now Hrymailiv in the

Ternopil region Ternopil Oblast ( uk, Тернопі́льська о́бласть, translit=Ternopilska oblast; also referred to as Ternopilshchyna, uk, Терно́пільщина, label=none, or Ternopillia, uk, Тернопілля, label=none) is an obl ...

, Ukraine) and studied in

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after World War II at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University graduating in 1955. He did post-graduate work for three years and then headed west in 1958 studying political thought at Oxford University in 1961 under Sir Isaiah Berlin and John Plamenatz and at

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. From 1965 until 1991, he worked at the University of Michigan in

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as a professor of history. There he also was a Director of the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Michigan. He was then a professor of history at Harvard University including as director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute from 1991 until 2004.

Membership

Szporluk was one of Fiona Hill's PhD advisors. Member of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in the United States. Member of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (1976–1979). Member of the Polish Society of Sciences and Arts in

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and other scientific societies. Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Professor Emeritus of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.

Academic work

Szporluk's expertise is in Ukrainian history, Polish-Ukrainian relations, Marxism, and nationalism in

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. He is the compiler and editor of the selected articles by M. Pokrovsky ("Russian in World History", 1970) and the combined work "The Influence of Eastern Europe and the Soviet West on the USSR" (1975).

Selected published works

* ''The Political Thought of T.G. Masaryk'' * ''Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx versus Friedrich List'' * Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union * ''U poshukakh maibutnioho chasu'' ("In Search of Future Time" (in Ukrainian, 2010)

References

Further research

Szporluk delivering the August Zaleski lecture on Modern Ukrainian History 1795–1991
in 2012 {{DEFAULTSORT:Szporluk, Roman 1933 births Living people People from Ternopil Oblast People from Tarnopol Voivodeship Polish emigrants to the United States University of Michigan faculty Harvard University faculty Harvard University Department of History faculty Members of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine