Serhy Yekelchyk

Born and educated in Ukraine, Serhy Yekelchyk obtained his PhD in Russian and East European History from the University of Alberta, Canada. He has taught and conducted research at Harvard, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Monash University, the University of Alberta, the Central European University, and the Institute of Ukrainian History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since 2014, he is Professor of History and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria. Yekelchyk has...See more

Born and educated in Ukraine, Serhy Yekelchyk obtained his PhD in Russian and East European History from the University of Alberta, Canada. He has taught and conducted research at Harvard, the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Monash University, the University of Alberta, the Central European University, and the Institute of Ukrainian History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Since 2014, he is Professor of History and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria. Yekelchyk has published seven single-authored books on modern Ukrainian history, Stalinism, and Russo-Ukrainian relations. His monograph, Stalin's Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (Oxford University Press, 2014), was the recipient of the biennial Best Book Award from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies, and its Ukrainian translation in 2019 received a special diploma of the Lviv Book Forum. Yekelchyk's most recent publication is Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2020)--the second, much expanded edition of his popular book about the Revolution of Dignity and Russian aggression in Ukraine. Yekelchyk is current president of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies and Associate Editor of Harvard Ukrainian Studies. See less