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Paul Robert Magocsi (born 1945) is a professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto since 1980, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1996. President of the World Congress of Rusyns and author of many books on Rusyn history.

Born in Englewood, New Jersey, Magocsi 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.

Professor Magosci 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.

Selected books and publications

Among his over 675 publications are 30 books including:

• (1978) The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus’, 1848-1948, Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-80579-8
• (1983) Galicia: A Historical Survey and Bibliographic Guide (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
• (1993, 2003) Historic Atlas of east Central/Central Europe (University of Washington Press)
• (1993, 2002) Magocsi, Paul Robert (1993, 2002). Historical Atlas of Central Europe. A History of East Central Europe. Vol. 1 (revised and expanded ed.). Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-98146-6. OCLC 47097699. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
• (1996) A History of Ukraine (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) ISBN 0802008305
• (1999) Of the Making of Nationalities There is no End (2 vols (Columbia University Press)
• (2002) "The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia As Ukraine's Piedmont", University of Toronto Press, 2002, ISBN 0802047386

• Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples, 1999, University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0802029388

• I. I. Pop, Paul Robert Magocsi, Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture, University of Toronto Press, 2002, ISBN 0802035663

References

1. with Ukrainian roots http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=94551216740575
2. ^ "Dr. Paul Robert Magocsi". Carpatho-Rusyn Knowledge Base.
3. www.carpathorusynsociety.org

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