A Laboratory of Transnational History: Ukraine and Recent Ukrainian Historiography

About the Contributors

About the Contributors John-Paul Himka is professor of Ukrainian and East European history at the University of Alberta. His most recent book is History on Linden Boards: Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians, to be published by the University of Toronto Press in spring 2009. Yaroslav Hrytsak is professor at the Lviv State University, where he is also chair of Slavic history. He holds the Chair of Modern History at the Ukrainian Catholic University and is recurring visiting professor of history at the Central European University (Budapest). His fields of interest are the history of Eastern Europe, intellectual history, historiography, and nationalism studies. His recent books include A Prophet in His Fatherland : Ivan Franko and His Community, 1856–1886 (Kyiv: Krytyka, 2006) and Life, Death, and Other Troubles (Kyiv: Hrani-T, 2008). Andreas Kappeler is professor of East European history at the University of Vienna. From 1982 to 1998, he was professor at Cologne University . His books include Russian Empire: A Multiethnic History (Harlow, 2001) and Der schwierige Weg zur Nation. Beiträge zur neueren Geschichte der Ukraine (Vienna, 2003). Georgiy Kasianov is head of the Department of Contemporary Politics and History, Institute of Ukrainian History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is also director of education programs at the International Renaissance Foundation in Kyiv. He teaches at the Department of History, Kyiv Mohyla Academy National University. He is the author or coauthor of twelve books on Ukrainian history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His fields of interest are intellectual history and comparative history. His most recent books are Ukraine, 1991–2007: Essays on Contemporary Ukrainian History (Kyiv: Nash Chas, 2007; in Ukrainian; 2008, in Russian) and The Image of the Other in Neighboring Histories (editor and coauthor; Kyiv: Institute of Ukrainian History, 2007). Alexei Miller is senior research fellow at the Institute of Research Information on the Social Sciences and Humanities (INION), Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). He is also professor of history in the Department of History, Central European University (Budapest). Recently he took up a part-time position as professor of history at the Russian State Humanities University (RGGU) in Moscow. He specializes in the history of imperial Russia. His most recent books are The Ukrainian Question: The Russian Empire and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century (CEU Press, 2003) and The Romanov Empire and Nationalism (CEU Press, 2008). Oksana Ostapchuk teaches at the Department of Philology, Moscow State University. Since 1999 she has also been a researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. Roman Szporluk is professor emeritus of Ukrainian history, Harvard University, and professor emeritus of history, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His books include Russia in World History: Selected Essays by M.N. Pokrovskii (editor and, with Mary Ann Szporluk, cotranslator; Ann Arbor, 1970); The Political Thought of Thomas G. Masaryk (Boulder , CO, 1980); Ukraine: A Brief History (Detroit, 1982); and Communism and Nationalism: Karl Marx versus Friedrich List (New York and Oxford, 1991). Philipp Ther teaches modern European history at the Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute (Florence). His fields of interest are comparative social and cultural history and its methodological foundations, music and history, comparative nationalism studies, ethnic cleansing, genocide and collective memory. His books include In der Mitte der Gesellschaft. Operntheater in Zentraleuropa 1815–1914 (Vienna, 2006); Robbery and Restitution: The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe (coeditor; Providence, RI, 2007); and Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe 1944– 1948 (coeditor; Lanham, MD, 2001). 288 About the Contributors Oleksiy Tolochko is head of the Center for Kyivan Rus’ Studies at the Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv). He teaches history at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy National University. His fields of interest include the medieval history and early modern historiography of Eastern Europe and historical hermeneutics. His most recent book is Vasilii Tatishchev’s “Russian History”: Sources and Accounts (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2005; in Russian). Mark von Hagen teaches Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian history, as well as comparative empires and nationalism, in the history department at Arizona State University, where he is also chair. His most recent publications include War in a European Borderland: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Russian Ukraine, 1914–1918 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007) and (with Jane Burbank and Anatoly Remnev) Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700–1930 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007). Before coming to Arizona , von...