Roman Szporluk

Roman Szporluk (born 1933) is a political scientist and historian in the U.S. He is a professor emeritus at Harvard and the University of Michigan.[1] He has written several books and many papers.[2]

He was born in Grzymałów, and studied in Lublin after World War II at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University graduating in 1955.[3] He did post-graduate work for three years and then headed west in 1958 studying political thought at Oxford University in 1961 under Sir Isaiah Berlin and John Plamenatz and at Stanford. From 1965 until 1991 he worked at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He was then a professor of history at Harvard University including as director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute from 1991 until 2004.

Szporluk's expertise is in Ukrainian history, Polish-Ukrainian relations, Marxism, and nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe.

Szporluk was one of Fiona Hill (presidential advisor)'s Phd advisor

Selected published works

  • The Political Thought of T.G. Masaryk [4]
  • Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx versus Friedrich List [5]
  • Russia, Ukraine, and the Breakup of the Soviet Union
  • U poshukakh maibutnioho chasu (“In Search of Future Time” (in Ukrainian, 2010)

References

  1. ↑ "Roman Szporluk". Center for European Studies at Harvard University. December 22, 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Roman Szporluk". Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. December 17, 2012. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Memoir - Faculty History Project". Homepage | U-M Library. June 30, 1991. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ Szporluk, Roman (June 19, 2008) [1981]. The political thought of Thomas G. Masaryk. Boulder Colo. New York: East European Monographs Distributed by Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-914710-79-0. ISBN 0914710796.
  5. ↑ Szporluk, Roman (1991). Communism and nationalism : Karl Marx versus Friedrich List. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505103-3.

Further research

  • YouTube video of Szporluk delivering the August Zaleski lecture on Modern Ukrainian History 1795 - 1991 in 2012
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