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Title: Serhii Plokhii named new Hrushevs'kyi Professor of
Ukr
[This is a
press release from Harvard University.--RD]
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Ryan Cortazar
617.496.7208
Plokhii Named Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History
Cambridge, Mass. - March 15, 2007 - Serhii Plokhii, a prolific scholar
whose historical studies have opened up a new pathway of studying
Ukraine's relationship with Eastern and Central Europe, has been
appointed Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History in Harvard
University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1, 2007.
Plokhii, 49, comes to Harvard from the University of Alberta, where he
was a professor of history and associate director of the Peter Jacyk
Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research. He also previously taught at
Harvard as a visiting professor in the fall of 2005 and the spring of
2003.
"Professor Plokhii's incisive explorations of nationality and
religion in Ukraine make him a real asset to our history department,"
said David Cutler, FAS dean for the social sciences. "From his
daring writings on religion while still under the Soviet regime to his
more recent explorations of the origins of nationality and culture,
Plokhii represents the frontier of contemporary studies in the history
of Ukraine and its environs."
Plokhii first earned his scholarly reputation through several writings
on the early modern religious history of Ukraine completed years
before the onset of glasnost and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
After relocating to Canada, this study culminated in a sweeping book,
The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine (Oxford University
Press, 2001). Drawing on archives in seven European languages, Plokhii
tracks the religious history of the country through the emergence of
the Uniate Church in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Orthodox
revival in Kiev, and the defense of Orthodoxy by the Cossacks during
the Khmelnytsky revolt.
In his second major work, Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo
Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History (University of Toronto
Press, 2005), Plokhii presents an intellectual biography of the
Ukrainian historian Hrushevs'kyi with a close analysis of how his
career interacted with the politics of imperial Russia and the Soviet
Union. Plokhii shows how Hrushevs'yi sought to destroy the Russian
narrative that united Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian history into
a single history by constructing an independent Ukrainian narrative.
In tracking the history and calculations of Hrushevs'kyi, Plokhii
carefully and judiciously questions both the imperial Russian and
Ukrainian national narratives.
Plokhii recently published his third major book, The Origins of the
Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
(Cambridge University Press, 2006), which is a culmination of a
decade's work on how elite political discourse and history-writing
create and shape cultural identities. Examining the pre-modern history
of Eastern Europe, Plokhii seeks to explain how and when separate
Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian identities emerged. In doing so, he
presents a vision of the region as a history of minorities and
borderlands-an intersection of Eastern and Central Europe peopled by
an amalgamation of distinct ethnicities.
Plokhii received a B.A. in history and social sciences from
Dnipropetrovsk University in 1980; an M.A. in History from Patrice
Lumumba University in Moscow in 1982; and a Ph. D. in history from
Kiev University in 1990.
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