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Paul Robert Magocsi

{{short description|American historian}}

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| native_name = Павел Роберт Маґочій

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| birth_place = Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.

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| nationality = Hungarian, Rusyn American

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| field = History

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| known_for = History of Ukraine

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Paul Robert Magocsi ({{langx|rue|Павел Роберт Маґочій|{{transliteration|rue|Pavel Robert Magochy}}}}; born January 26, 1945) 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.{{Cite web| url = http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/magocsi.htm | title = Dr. Paul Robert Magocsi | work = Carpatho-Rusyn Knowledge Base }} He currently acts as Honorary Chairman of the World Congress of Rusyns, and has authored many books on Rusyn history.{{cite web|url=http://www.carpathorusynsociety.org|title=Carpatho-Rusyn Society homepage|publisher=Carpathorusynsociety.org|access-date=28 November 2014}}

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.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}} He completed his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University B.A. in 1966; M.A. 1967, Princeton University in M.A. 1969, Ph.D. 1972.{{clarify|date=June 2014}} He then went to Harvard University, where he was a member of the Society of Fellows between 1973 and 1976. In 2013, he was awarded doctor honoris causa by the University of Prešov in Slovakia.{{cite web|url=http://www.unipo.sk/pracoviska/urjk/aktuality/Magocsi|title=Prof. Dr. Paul Robert Magocsi – Doctor honoris causa Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove - UNIPO|publisher=Unipo.ks|access-date=28 November 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130713222619/http://www.unipo.sk/pracoviska/urjk/aktuality/Magocsi|archive-date=13 July 2013}}

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{{emdash}}Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences.{{cite web|url=http://www.jgstoronto.ca/index.php/calendar-mainmenu-55/speakers-biographies-mainmenu-174/138-professor-paul-robert-magocsi|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130205053526/http://www.jgstoronto.ca/index.php/calendar-mainmenu-55/speakers-biographies-mainmenu-174/138-professor-paul-robert-magocsi|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 February 2013|title=The Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto (JGS Toronto) - Professor Paul Robert Magocsi|author=Les Kelman|publisher=Jgstotronto.ca|access-date=28 November 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rusyn.org/edumagocsi.html|title=The Rusyns - Carpatho-Rusyn Academy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305102810/http://rusyn.org/edumagocsi.html |archive-date=5 March 2016 |url-status=dead|publisher=Rusyn.org|access-date=28 October 2022}}

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:

= Books =

  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link=Paul R. Magocsi |title=The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus', 1848-1948 |year=1978 |location=Cambridge |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674805798 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XcOOAAAAIAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Magocsi|first=Paul R.|author-link=Paul R. Magocsi|title=Galicia: A Historical Survey and Bibliographic Guide|year=1983|location=Toronto|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9780802024824|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qgTrJm85sDQC}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link=Paul R. Magocsi |title=Our people: Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descendants in North America |year=2005 |orig-year=1984 |edition=4. rev. |location=Wauconda |publisher=Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers |isbn=9780865166110 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rnMOAQAAMAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Magocsi|first=Paul R.|author-link=Paul R. Magocsi|title=Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1975-1984|year=1988|volume=1|location=New York|publisher=Garland|isbn=9780824012144|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M2EnAQAAIAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Magocsi|first=Paul R.|author-link=Paul R. Magocsi|title=Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1985-1994|year=1998|volume=2|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780880334204|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kvPiAAAAMAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Magocsi|first=Paul R.|author-link=Paul R. Magocsi|title=Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1995-1999|year=2006|volume=3|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780880335317|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6RzjAAAAMAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Magocsi|first=Paul R.|author-link=Paul R. Magocsi|title=Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 2000-2004|year=2011|volume=4|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780880336840|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vCGWuQEACAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Magocsi|first=Paul R.|author-link=Paul R. Magocsi|title=Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 2005-2009|year=2013|volume=5|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780824058364|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YlWzvgEACAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link=Paul R. Magocsi |title=The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans |year=2000 |orig-year=1988 |edition=2. |location=New York-Philadelphia |publisher=Chelsea House Publishers |isbn=9780791062845 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=glRmPgAACAAJ}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Magocsi|first=Paul R.|author-link=Paul R. Magocsi|title=Magyars and Carpatho-Rusyns: On the Seventieth Anniversary of the Founding of Czechoslovakia|journal=Harvard Ukrainian Studies|year=1990|volume=14|issue=3–4|pages=427–460|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDkMAQAAMAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Magocsi|first=Paul R.|author-link=Paul R. Magocsi|title=The Rusyns of Slovakia: An Historical Survey|year=1993|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780880332781|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d-VnAAAAMAAJ}}{{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link=Paul R. Magocsi |title=Historical Atlas of East Central Europe |year=1993 |edition=1. |location=Seattle |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=9780802006073 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qHOQgAACAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link=Paul R. Magocsi |title=Historical Atlas of Central Europe |year=2018 |orig-year=1993 |edition=3. rev. |location=Toronto |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=9781487523312 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-d_DwAAQBAJ}}
  • {{Cite book|editor-last=Magocsi|editor-first=Paul R.|editor-link=Paul R. Magocsi|title=A New Slavic Language Is Born: The Rusyn Literary Language of Slovakia|year=1996|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link=Paul R. Magocsi |title=A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples |year=2010 |orig-year=1996 |edition=2. rev. |location=Toronto |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=9781442610217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TA1zVKTTsXUC}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Petrov|first=Aleksei L.|editor-last=Magocsi|editor-first=Paul R.|editor-link=Paul R. Magocsi|title=Medieval Carpathian Rus': The Oldest Documentation About the Carpatho-Rusyn Church and Eparchy|year=1998|orig-year=1930|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780880333887|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d2PZAAAAMAAJ}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link=Paul R. Magocsi |url=https://archive.org/details/ofmakingofnation0000mago/ |title=Of the Making of Nationalities There is no End |year=1999 |isbn=0-88033-438-X |volume=1 |location=New York |publisher=Columbia University Press}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Magocsi|first=Paul R.|author-link=Paul R. Magocsi|title=Of the Making of Nationalities There is no End|year=1999|volume=2|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press}}
  • {{Cite book|editor-last=Magocsi|editor-first=Paul R.|editor-link=Paul R. Magocsi|title=Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples|year=1999|location=Toronto|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=9780802029386|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dbUuX0mnvQMC}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link=Paul R. Magocsi |title=The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont |year=2002 |location=Toronto |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=9780802047380 |url=https://1lib.sk/dl/2574371/7842b5}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/aboriginalpeople0000unse_u7b4 |title=Aboriginal Peoples of Canada |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2002 |isbn=9780802084699 |location=Toronto |language=en}}
  • {{Cite book |editor-last1=Magocsi |editor-first1=Paul R. |editor-last2=Pop |editor-first2=Ivan I. |editor-link1=Paul R. Magocsi |title=Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture |year=2005 |orig-year=2002 |edition=2. rev. |location=Toronto |publisher=University of Toronto Press}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/thisblessedlandc0000mago |title=This Blessed Land: Crimea and the Crimean Tatars |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0772751102 |location=Toronto}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link= |title=With Their Backs to the Mountains: A History of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns |year=2015 |location=Budapest-New York |language=en |jstor=10.7829/j.ctt19z395j |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=9786155053467 |url=}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul Robert |url=https://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ukrainia-text-web-final.pdf |title=Ukraina Redux. On Statehood and National Identity |publisher=Kashtan Press |year=2022 |isbn=9781896354231 |language=en}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Magocsi |first1=Paul Robert |title=Babyn Yar: History and Memory |last2=Hrynevych |first2=Vladyslav |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=2023 |isbn=978-0772751164 |location=Toronto |language=en}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul Robert |title=From Nowhere to Somewhere. The Carpatho-Rusyn Movement. A Personal History |publisher=ibidem |year=2024 |isbn=978-3-83821973-8 |location=Stuttgart |language=en}}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Magocsi |first1=Paul Robert |title=Jews and Ukrainians |last2=Petrovsky-Shtern |first2=Yohanan |publisher=ibidem |year=2024 |isbn=978-3-83821963-9 |location=Stuttgart |language=en}}

= Articles and Book Chapters =

  • {{Cite journal |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link=Paul R. Magocsi |title=An Historiographical Guide to Subcarpathian Rus' |journal=Austrian History Yearbook |year=1973 |volume=9 |pages=201–265 |doi=10.1017/S006723780001910X |s2cid=144778333 |url=http://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Magochii_Pavlo_Robert/An_Historiographical_Guide_to_Subcarpathian_Rus_anhl.pdf |access-date=2019-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205040050/http://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Magochii_Pavlo_Robert/An_Historiographical_Guide_to_Subcarpathian_Rus_anhl.pdf |archive-date=2019-12-05 |url-status=dead}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link= |title=The Ruthenian Decision to Unite with Czechoslovakia |journal=Slavic Review |year=1975 |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=360–381 |doi=10.2307/2495193 |jstor=2495193 |s2cid=155615547 |url=http://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Magochii_Pavlo_Robert/The_Ruthenian_Decision_to_Unite_with_Czechoslovakia_anhl.pdf |access-date=2019-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428052942/http://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Magochii_Pavlo_Robert/The_Ruthenian_Decision_to_Unite_with_Czechoslovakia_anhl.pdf |archive-date=2019-04-28 |url-status=dead}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Magocsi |first=Paul Robert |year=1987 |title=Ucrainica Collections and Bibliography in North America: Their Current Status |url=https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/720 |journal=Journal of Ukrainian Studies |language=en |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=77–91}}
  • {{Cite journal |year=1996 |title=Ukrainians and the Habsburgs |url=https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/982 |journal=Journal of Ukrainian Studies |language=en |volume=21 |issue=1–2 |pages=55–66}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Magocsi |first=Paul Robert |year=1996 |title=Ukrainians and the Habsburgs |url=https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/982 |journal=Journal of Ukrainian Studies |volume=21 |issue=1–2 |pages=55–66}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Magocsi |first=Paul Robert |year=2010–2011 |title=The Fourth Rus': A New Reality in a New Europe |url=https://shron3.chtyvo.org.ua/Magochii_Pavlo_Robert/The_Fourth_Rus_A_New_Reality_in_a_New_Europe_anhl.pdf |journal=Journal of Ukrainian Studies |volume=35-36 |pages=167–177}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Magocsi |first=Paul R. |author-link= |chapter=Carpathian Rus': Interethnic Coexistence without Violence |chapter-url=https://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1395 |title=Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands |year=2013 |location=Bloomington-Indianapolis |publisher=Indiana University Press |pages=449–462 |language=en |isbn=978-0253006318 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xam0fUlrXfkC}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Magocsi |first=Paul Robert |year=2015 |title=The heritage of autonomy in Carpathian Rus' and Ukraine's Transcarpathian region |url=https://shron3.chtyvo.org.ua/Magochii_Pavlo_Robert/The_heritage_of_autonomy_in_Carpathian_Rus_and_Ukraines_Transcarpathian_Region_anhl.pdf |journal=Nationalities Papers |volume=4 |issue=43 |pages=577–594 |doi=10.1080/00905992.2015.1009433}}

Biographies

  • {{Cite journal |last=Kuzio |first=Taras |author-link=Taras Kuzio |year=2011 |title=A multi-vectored scholar for a multi-vectored era: Paul Robert Magocsi |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233453550 |journal=Nationalities Papers |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=95–104 |doi=10.1080/00905992.2010.533259}}

See also

References

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External links

  • [https://www.history.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/paul-robert-magocsi Paul Robert Magocsi] at University of Toronto, Department for History
  • [https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/paul-robert-magocsi Paul Robert Magocsi] at Munk School
  • [https://c-rrc.org/about/ Caparto-Rusy Research Center]

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