Serhy Yekelchyk

Serhy Yekelchyk received his PhD from the University of Alberta. He is the author of eight books on modern Ukrainian history, Stalinism, and Russo-Ukrainian relations. His monograph Stalin’s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (2014) received the Best Book Award from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies, and its Ukrainian translation received a special diploma from the Lviv Book Forum in 2019. His survey of Ukrainian history, Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (2007), was named Choice magazine’s Outstanding Academic Title of the Year and has since been translated into five languages. He is currently preparing the third edition of his book Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (2020). Yekelchyk has written op-eds for the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Politico. A professor of history and Slavic studies at the University of Victoria, Yekelchyk served as president of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies from 2015 to 2026.