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Serhii
Plokhy to Join Harvard History Department
July 1, 2007
 The faculty and staff of the Institute are delighted to announce
that Professor Serhii Plokhy of the University of Alberta has accepted
an offer from the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to join
Harvard’s Department of History in the fall of 2007 as the
new Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, the third
holder of the endowed chair previously held by the late Omeljan
Pritsak and Mykhailo Hrushevsky Research Professor Roman Szporluk.
Plokhy’s research and teaching interests cover the spectrum of Ukrainian
history and culture, from the Christianization of Rus´ to contemporary
Ukraine, from history, politics, and historiography to art history, literature,
and religion. His major publications include The Cossacks and Religion in
Early Modern Ukraine (2001), Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography (2002), Unmaking
Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History (2005),
and The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine,
and Belarus (2006).
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