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PAUL ROBERT MAGOCSI is professor of history and political science at the University of Toronto, where since 1980 he also holds the John Yaremko Chair of Ukrainian Studies.  He completed his education at Rutgers University (B.A. 1966; M.A. 1967), Princeton University (M.A. 1969;  Ph.D. 1972), and Harvard University (Society of Fellows 1976).

Professor Magocsi is the author of over 900 works, including 41 books primarily in the fields of political, cultural, and religious history, sociolinguistics, bibliography, cartography, immigration and ethnic studies. Among the most prominent of these publications are: The Shaping of a National Identity:  Subcarpathian Rus’, 1848-1948 (Harvard University Press, 1978); Galicia: A Historical Survey and Bibliographic Guide (University of Toronto Press, 1983); Historical Atlas of East Central/ Central Europe (University of Washington Press, 1993/2002); A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples  (University of Toronto Press, 1996/2010);  Of the Making of Nationalities There is No End, 2 vols. (Columbia  University Press, 1999); The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism (University of Toronto Press, 2002); Ukraine: An Illustrated History (University of Toronto Press, 2007); This Blessed Land: Crimea and Crimean Tatars (University of Toronto Press, 2014); With Their Backs to the Mountains: A History of Carpathian Rus’ and Carpatho-Rusyns (Central European University Press, 2015); Jews and Ukrainians: Millennium of Co-Existence, co-author (University of Toronto Press, 2016); and Carpathian Rus’: A Historical Atlas (2017). He is also the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Canada’s Peoples (University of Toronto Press, 1999) and co-editor and main author the Encyclopedia of Rusyn History and Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2002/2005).

Professor Magocsi has taught at Harvard University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Prešov University in Slovakia, and on five occasions was historian-in-residence at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. He was appointed a permanent fellow of the Royal Society of Canada—Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences (1996), a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cracow, Poland (2023) and has been awarded honorary degrees from Prešov University in Slovakia (doctor honoris causa, 2013) and from Kamianets-Podilskyi National University in Ukraine (pochesnyi profesor, 2015).