Roman Szporluk
Roman Szporluk is a political scientist and historian of Ukrainian origin in the U.S. He is a professor emeritus at Harvard and the University of Michigan. He has written several books and many papers.Biography
He was born in Grzymałów and studied in Lublin after World War II at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University graduating in 1955. 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 as a professor of history. There he also was a Director of the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies at the University of Michigan.
He was then a professor of history at Harvard University including as director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute from 1991 until 2004.Membership
Szporluk was one of Fiona Hill 's Phd advisor.
Member of the Ukrainian Free Academy of Sciences in the USA.
Member of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
Member of the Polish Society of Sciences and Arts in New York and other scientific societies.
Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
Professor Emeritus of the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society.Academic work
Szporluk's expertise is in Ukrainian history, Polish-Ukrainian relations, Marxism, and nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe.
He is the compiler and editor of the selected articles by M. Pokrovsky and the combined work "The Influence of Eastern Europe and the Soviet West on the USSR".Selected published works
