Serhy Yekelchyk (born November 13, 1966 in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

) is a

Ukrainian Canadian Ukrainian Canadians ( uk, Українські канадці, Україноканадці, translit=Ukrayins'ki kanadtsi, Ukrayinokanadtsi; french: Canadiens d'origine ukrainienne) are Canadians, Canadian citizens of Ukrainians, Ukrainian desce ...

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

, who has published widely on modern

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and

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and Russian-Ukrainian relations.

Education and career

Yekelchyk received his

B.A. Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...

from the

University of Kyiv Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

and his

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from the

Ukrainian Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; uk, Національна академія наук України, ''Natsional’na akademiya nauk Ukrayiny'', abbr: NAN Ukraine) is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine th ...

. He conducted research in Australia in the early 1990s, then moved to

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to complete his

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at the

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in 2000. He was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

the following year. Since 2001, he has taught at the

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary instit ...

, British Columbia, Canada. He currently serves as president of the Canadian Association of Ukrainian Studies.

Research interests

Much of Yekelchyk's recent work focuses on

Stalinist Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist-Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. It included the creation of a one-party totalitarian police state, rapid industrialization, the theory o ...

culture and political life, especially in the

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

. He has also written about Soviet nationalities policy and about

Ukrainian national identity The history of Ukrainian nationality can be traced back to the kingdom of Kievan Rus' of the 9th to 12th centuries. It was the predecessor state to what would eventually become the Eastern Slavic nations of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. During th ...

from the late nineteenth century to the present. His book ''Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation'' was the first historical survey to include the 2004 Orange Revolution and has since been translated into five languages. Yekelchuk contributes articles to various printed and online journals including:

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, OUPblog,

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, RealClear World, RealClear History, and ThePioneer Briefing.

Selected bibliography

* ''Ukrainians in Australia. Vol. 2: 1966-1995.'' Co-editor with Marko Pavlyshyn. (Melbourne: Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organizations, 1998) * ''Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination'' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, March 2004) * ''Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) * ''Europe’s Last Frontier? Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine between Russia and the European Union.'' Co-editor with Oliver Schmidtke. (New York: Palgrave, 2008). * ''Імперія пам'яті. Російсько-українські стосунки в радянській історичній уяві / Пер. з англійської Миколи Климчука і Христини Чушак.'' — К.: Критика, 2008. — 304 с. () * ''The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015 xix, 186 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Index. Maps. ()

References

External links

List of books by Serhy Yekelchuk on Google Books

Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk

UVic The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary instit ...

Department of History
Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk

Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies {{DEFAULTSORT:Yekelchyk, Serhy 1960 births Living people Writers from Kyiv 21st-century Canadian historians Canadian male non-fiction writers University of Victoria faculty Historians of Russia Historians of Ukraine Historians of communism Stalinism-era scholars and writers University of Michigan faculty Ukrainian emigrants to Canada