Paul Robert Magocsi

Paul Robert Magocsi (born January 26, 1945 in Englewood, New Jersey) 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.[1] He currently acts as Honorary Chairman of the World Congress of Rusyns, and has authored many books on Rusyn history.[2]

Paul Robert Magocsi
Paul Robert Magocsi in 2013
Born	(1945-01-26) January 26, 1945 Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality	Hungarian, Rusyn American
Known for	History of Ukraine
Scientific career
Fields	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.[3] 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.[1] In 2013 he was awarded doctor honoris causa by the University of Presov in Slovakia.[4]

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 - Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences.[5][6]

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:

• Magocsi, Paul R. (1973). "An Historiographical Guide to Subcarpathian Rus'" (PDF). Austrian History Yearbook. 9: 201–265. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2019-03-19.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (1975). "The Ruthenian Decision to Unite with Czechoslovakia" (PDF). Slavic Review. 34 (2): 360–381. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2019-03-19.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (1978). The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus', 1848-1948. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (1983). Galicia: A Historical Survey and Bibliographic Guide. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (1984). Our people: Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descendants in North America (1. ed.). Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Magocsi, Paul R. (1985) [1984]. Our people: Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descendants in North America (2. ed.). Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Magocsi, Paul R. (1994) [1984]. Our people: Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descendants in North America (3. rev. ed.). Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
      • Magocsi, Paul R. (2005) [1984]. Our people: Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descendants in North America (4. rev. ed.). Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (1988). Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1975-1984. 1. New York: Garland.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Magocsi, Paul R. (1998). Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1985-1994. 2. New York: Columbia University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Magocsi, Paul R. (2006). Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1995-1999. 3. New York: Columbia University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
      • Magocsi, Paul R. (2011). Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 2000-2004. 4. New York: Columbia University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
        • Magocsi, Paul R. (2013). Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 2005-2009. 5. New York: Columbia University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (1988). The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans (1. ed.). New York-Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Magocsi, Paul R. (2000) [1988]. The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans (2. ed.). New York-Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (1990). "Magyars and Carpatho-Rusyns: On the Seventieth Anniversary of the Founding of Czechoslovakia". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 14 (3–4): 427–460.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (1993). The Rusyns of Slovakia: An Historical Survey. New York: Columbia University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (1993). Historical Atlas of East Central Europe (1. ed.). Seattle: University of Washington Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Magocsi, Paul R. (2002) [1993]. Historical Atlas of Central Europe (2. rev. ed.). Seattle: University of Washington Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
    • Magocsi, Paul R. (2018) [1993]. Historical Atlas of Central Europe (3. rev. ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R., ed. (1996). A New Slavic Language Is Born: The Rusyn Literary Language of Slovakia. New York: Columbia University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (1996). A History of Ukraine (1. ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Magocsi, Paul R. (2010) [1996]. A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples (2. rev. ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Petrov, Aleksei L. (1998) [1930]. Magocsi, Paul R. (ed.). Medieval Carpathian Rus': The Oldest Documentation About the Carpatho-Rusyn Church and Eparchy. New York: Columbia University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (1999). Of the Making of Nationalities There is no End. 1. New York: Columbia University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (1999). Of the Making of Nationalities There is no End. 2. New York: Columbia University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R., ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (2002). The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R.; Pop, Ivan I., eds. (2002). Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture (1. ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Magocsi, Paul R.; Pop, Ivan I., eds. (2005) [2002]. Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture (2. rev. ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (2013). "Carpathian Rus': Interethnic Coexistence without Violence". Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands. Bloomington-Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 449–462.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Magocsi, Paul R. (2015). With Their Backs to the Mountains: A History of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns. Budapest-New York: Central European University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

See also

• Rusyns
• Ruthenia

References

1. "Dr. Paul Robert Magocsi". Carpatho-Rusyn Knowledge Base.
2. "Carpatho-Rusyn Society homepage". Carpathorusynsociety.org. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
3. Magocsi, Paul R.; Pop, Ivan Ivanovich, eds. Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture, p. 313. University of Toronto Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8020-3566-3
4. "Prof. Dr. Paul Robert Magocsi – Doctor honoris causa Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove - UNIPO". Unipo.ks. Archived from the original on 13 July 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
5. Les Kelman. "The Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto (JGS Toronto) - Professor Paul Robert Magocsi". Jgstotronto.ca. Archived from the original on 5 February 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
6. "The Rusyns - Carpatho-Rusyn Academy". Rusyn.org. Retrieved 28 November 2014.