Paul Robert Magocsi Explained

Paul Robert Magocsi
Native Name Lang:	rue
Native Name:	Павел Роберт Маґочій
Birth Date:	26 January 1945
Birth Place:	Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality:	Hungarian, Rusyn American
Field:	History
Known For:	History of Ukraine

Paul Robert Magocsi (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.^[1] He currently acts as Honorary Chairman of the World Congress of Rusyns, and has authored many books on Rusyn history.^[2]

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.^[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. He then went to Harvard University, where he was a member of the Society of Fellows between 1973 and 1976.^[1] In 2013, he was awarded doctor honoris causa by the University of Prešov in Slovakia.^[4]

Magocsi has taught at Harvard University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1996, he was appointed permanent fellow of the Royal Society of CanadaCanadian Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences.^{[5] [6]}

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:

• Magocsi. Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. An Historiographical Guide to Subcarpathian Rus'. Austrian History Yearbook. 1973. 9. 201–265. 10.1017/S006723780001910X. 144778333 . 2019-03-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20191205040050/http://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Magochii_Pavlo_Robert/An_Historiographical_Guide_to_Subcarpathian_Rus_anhl.pdf. 2019-12-05. dead.
• Magocsi. Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. The Ruthenian Decision to Unite with Czechoslovakia. Slavic Review. 1975. 34. 2. 360–381. 10.2307/2495193. 2495193. 155615547 . 2019-03-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20190428052942/http://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Magochii_Pavlo_Robert/The_Ruthenian_Decision_to_Unite_with_Czechoslovakia_anhl.pdf. 2019-04-28. dead.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. The Shaping of a National Identity: Subcarpathian Rus', 1848-1948. 1978. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 9780674805798.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Galicia: A Historical Survey and Bibliographic Guide. 1983. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 9780802024824.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Our people: Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descendants in North America. 1984. 1.. Toronto. Multicultural History Society of Ontario. 9780919045224.
  • Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Our people: Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descendants in North America. 1985. 1984. 2.. Toronto. Multicultural History Society of Ontario. 9780919045224.
    • Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Our people: Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descendants in North America. 1994. 1984. 3. rev.. Toronto. Multicultural History Society of Ontario. 9780919045668.
      • Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Our people: Carpatho-Rusyns and their Descendants in North America. 2005. 1984. 4. rev.. Wauconda. Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. 9780865166110.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1975-1984. 1988. 1. New York. Garland. 9780824012144.
  • Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1985-1994. 1998. 2. New York. Columbia University Press. 9780880334204.
    • Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 1995-1999. 2006. 3. New York. Columbia University Press. 9780880335317.
      • Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 2000-2004. 2011. 4. New York. Columbia University Press. 9780880336840.
        • Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Carpatho-Rusyn Studies: An Annotated Bibliography, 2005-2009. 2013. 5. New York. Columbia University Press. 9780824058364.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans. 1988. 1.. New York-Philadelphia. Chelsea House Publishers. 9780877548669.
  • Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans. 2000. 1988. 2.. New York-Philadelphia. Chelsea House Publishers. 9780791062845.
• Magocsi. Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Magyars and Carpatho-Rusyns: On the Seventieth Anniversary of the Founding of Czechoslovakia. Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 1990. 14. 3–4. 427–460.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. The Rusyns of Slovakia: An Historical Survey. 1993. New York. Columbia University Press. 9780880332781.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Historical Atlas of East Central Europe. 1993. 1.. Seattle. University of Washington Press. 9780802006073.
  • Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. 2002. 1993. 2. rev.. Seattle. University of Washington Press. 9780802084866.
    • Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. 2018. 1993. 3. rev.. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 9781487523312.
• Book: Magocsi. Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. A New Slavic Language Is Born: The Rusyn Literary Language of Slovakia. 1996. New York. Columbia University Press.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. A History of Ukraine. 1996. 1.. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 9780802078209.
  • Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples. 2010. 1996. 2. rev.. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 9781442610217.
• Book: Petrov, Aleksei L.. Magocsi. Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Medieval Carpathian Rus': The Oldest Documentation About the Carpatho-Rusyn Church and Eparchy. 1998. 1930. New York. Columbia University Press. 9780880333887.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Of the Making of Nationalities There is no End. 1999. 1. New York. Columbia University Press.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Of the Making of Nationalities There is no End. 1999. 2. New York. Columbia University Press.
• Book: Magocsi. Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples. 1999. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 9780802029386.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine's Piedmont. 2002. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 9780802047380.
• Book: Magocsi. Paul R.. Pop. Ivan I.. Paul R. Magocsi. Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture. 2002. 1.. Toronto. University of Toronto Press. 9780802035660 . registration.
  • Book: Magocsi. Paul R.. Pop. Ivan I.. Paul R. Magocsi. Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture. 2005. 2002. 2. rev.. Toronto. University of Toronto Press.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. Carpathian Rus': Interethnic Coexistence without Violence. Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands. 2013. Bloomington-Indianapolis. Indiana University Press. 449–462. 978-0253006318.
• Book: Magocsi, Paul R.. Paul R. Magocsi. With Their Backs to the Mountains: A History of Carpathian Rus' and Carpatho-Rusyns. 2015. Budapest-New York. Central European University Press. 9786155053467.

See also

• Rusyns
• Ruthenia

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr. Paul Robert Magocsi . Carpatho-Rusyn Knowledge Base .
2. Web site: Carpatho-Rusyn Society homepage. Carpathorusynsociety.org. 28 November 2014.
3. Magocsi, Paul R.; Pop, Ivan Ivanovich, eds. Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture, p. 313. University of Toronto Press, 2002.
4. Web site: Prof. Dr. Paul Robert Magocsi – Doctor honoris causa Prešovskej univerzity v Prešove - UNIPO. Unipo.ks. 28 November 2014. dead. https://archive.today/20130713222619/http://www.unipo.sk/pracoviska/urjk/aktuality/Magocsi. 13 July 2013.
5. Web site: The Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto (JGS Toronto) - Professor Paul Robert Magocsi. https://web.archive.org/web/20130205053526/http://www.jgstoronto.ca/index.php/calendar-mainmenu-55/speakers-biographies-mainmenu-174/138-professor-paul-robert-magocsi. dead. 5 February 2013. Les Kelman. Jgstotronto.ca. 28 November 2014.
6. Web site: The Rusyns - Carpatho-Rusyn Academy. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305102810/http://rusyn.org/edumagocsi.html . 5 March 2016 . dead. Rusyn.org. 28 October 2022.