Taras Hunczak

Taras Hunczak

Taras Hunczak (Ukrainian: Тарас Гунчак; born on March 13, 1932 in Stare Misto, near Tarnopol, Poland, now Ternopil Oblast, Ukraine) is a historian and professor emeritus at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He lectures in Ukrainian, Russian, and East-European history. Hunczak has written extensively on Ukrainian history, the twentieth century in particular.

Education[]

Hunczak earned his B.A. (1955) and M.A. (1958) from Fordham University in Bronx, New York City. In 1965, he earned his Ph.D. at the Vienna University.^[1]

Career[]

Hunczak began lecturing at Rutgers University in 1960. Between 1960 and 1984 he was a member of the Rutgers University Senate. He became Professor Emeritus in 2004.

From 1991, also Hunczak has been a professor at the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. In 2013, he received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

Publications[]

Hunczak's publications in English include:

• Russian Imperialism from Ivan the Great to the Revolution;
• The Ukraine, 1917-1921: A Study in Revolution;
• On the Horns of a Dilemma: The Story of the Ukrainian Division Halychyna;
• Symon Petliura and the Jews: A reappraisal (Ukrainian Jewish studies);
• Ukraine: The Challenges of World War II

Hunczak's publications in Ukrainian include:

• Ukraina—persha polovyna XX stolittia: Narysy politychnoi istorii;
• Symon Petliura ta ievrei;
• U mundyrakh voroha

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