Frank Sysyn

Frank E. Sysyn is the director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at CIUS and a professor in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta. He is the editor-in-chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project, which is producing the English translation of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s History of Ukraine-Rus’, and head of the executive committee of the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC), both at CIUS. A specialist in East-Central European history, Sysyn’s research focuses on early modern Ukraine, Ukrainian historiography, religion, and the Holodomor. He is the author of Between Poland and Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600–1653 (1986) and Mykhailo Hrushevsky: Historian and National Awakener (2001), and co-editor of numerous volumes, including Communism and Hunger (2016) and Genocide: The Power and Problems of a Concept (2023).