Yaroslav Hrytsak

Yaroslav Hrytsak is a Ukrainian historian and public intellectual. He is professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, where he directs CIUS's Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Modern Ukrainian History and Society. He also taught at Columbia, Harvard, and Central European Universities. In 2014–22 he co-directed the German-Ukrainian Historical Commission. Hrytsak is founding editor of the Ukraina Moderna journal and author of numerous publications on the modern history of Ukraine, including the bestseller Global History of Ukraine (2021), translated into several languages. He is a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and full member of Polish Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.