Serhii Plokhy
Historian of Ukraine at Harvard; author of The Gates of Europe, Chernobyl and The Russo-Ukrainian War.
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- Serhii Plokhy is a historian of Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
- He has been the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard since 2007, and directed the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute from 2013 to 2025.
- His books include The Gates of Europe, The Last Empire, Chernobyl, which won the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize, and The Russo-Ukrainian War, which won the 2024 Arenberg Prize.
Key facts
- Born
- 23 May 1957, Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod); grew up in Zaporizhzhia1
- Position
- Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard (from 2007)1
- Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
- Director from 2013 to 20251
- Books
- The Gates of Europe (2015); The Last Empire; Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy (2018); The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History (2023)1
- Awards
- Lionel Gelber Prize and Pushkin House Prize (2015, The Last Empire); Baillie Gifford Prize (2018, Chernobyl); Shevchenko National Prize (2018); Arenberg Prize (2024)1
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