Volodymyr Kravchenko, PhD
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Arts - History, Classics, & Religion Dept
- vkravche@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-4487
- Address
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Pembina Hall
8921 - 116 St NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H8
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Ukraine Russia history historiography border studies
About
Doctor of Sciences in History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv) (1997)
Candidate of Sciences in History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv) (1986)
Diploma with distinction of Higher Education, Kharkiv State University, Faculty of History, Department of the History of Ukraine(1980)
ProfessionalAcademicContributions:
Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (2012-2017)
Founder and Head of the Department of Ukrainian Studies,V.N.Karazin National
University (Kharkiv),1991-1996,1999 to 2012
Head of the Department of History and Museum Studies,Kharkiv(State)National Academy of
Culture,1999-2001
Founder and Director of the Kowalsky Eastern Ukrainian Institute, 2002 to 2012
Founding Board Member,President of the International Association for the Humanities, 2007 to 2012
Member of Ukrainian National Historians Committee,1996 to Present
Member of the Committee of Ukrainian and Bulgarian Historians,2009 to Present
Editorial board member of the following scholarly journals:
- East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (Edmonton,AB)
- Harvard Ukrainian Studies (Cambridge,MA)
- Individual and Society (Slovak Academy of Sciences)
- Ukraina Moderna (Lviv)
- Pro-Seminarium: Medieval Studies, History of Church,Science&Culture(Kyiv)
Advisory board member of the "Ukrainian Voices" book series (ibidem Verlag)
Advisor(ConsultantandSupervisor):
2 Doctor’s and 12 Candidate’s dissertations
Awards:
Solomea Pavlychko Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies, 2010
Petro Mohyla Award of Ukrainian Ministry of Science and Education, 2004
Kharkiv regional government’s Annual Award in a nomination “The Best Lecturer in the Humanities”, 2000.
Information about:
Wikipedia Ukraine
Professors of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Bio-Bibliography Guide. Kharkiv ,2009 (in Ukrainian);
Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine, vol.5, Kyiv, 2008 (in Ukrainian);
Ukrainian historians of the 20th century:Bio-bibliographyGuide (series “Ukrainian Historians”),vol.2, part 2, Kyiv, 2004 (in Ukrainian);
V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Bio-bibliography Dictionary of Scholars, vol.2, Historians, part 2,1933-2000s. Kharkiv, 2001 (in Ukrainian).
Research
- Ukraine
- Russian Empire (XIX – beg. XX centuries)
- History of Historical Writing (XVIII-XX centuries)
- Ukrainian-Russian relations
Teaching
Modern Europe, 19th-21st centuries
Foundations of East European History
Russia and the Soviet Union in 20th century
Modern Ukraine
History of historical writing
Courses
HIST 210 - Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
HIST 318 - Modern Ukraine
Ukrainian history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Note: Not open to students with credit in HIST 315, 316, or 317.
Scholarly Activities
Research - Ukrainian Studies in North America after WWII
20151201 to 20190308
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Featured Publications
Kharkov/Kharkiv: A Borderland Capital
Kravchenko, Volodymyr
New York-London . 2023 June;
Ukrainian Historical Writing in North America during the Cold War The Struggle for Recognition
Kravchenko, Volodymyr
New York-London. 2023 January;
The Ukrainian-Russian Borderland: History versus Geography
Kravchenko, Volodymyr
Montreal. 2022 September;