Roman Szporluk

Historian

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-8097
E-Mail: szporluk@fas.harvard.edu


Biographical Statement

Szporluk is Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Research Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard and professor emeritus of history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on modern Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish history, and on Marxism and nationalism in Eastern Europe. Szporluk’s conversation with Andrzej Nowak, “Was Poland an Empire?” originally published in Poland in Arcana (2004), appeared in Russian translation in the quarterly journal Ab imperio (No.1, 2007) as part of an international symposium that included contributions of the editors as well as those of Andrzej Nowak, Andriy Portnov, and Szporluk. His article on Lenin’s view of Russian national identity and of Ukrainian-Russian relations is scheduled to appear as “Lenin, ‘Great Russia,’ and Ukraine” in Harvard Ukrainian Studies in 2007.