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Himka, John-Paul

Dr. John-Paul Himka

(Professor)

Ph.D.Michigan 1977
B.A. Michigan 1971

2-72 Tory Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB T6G 2H4
Tel. (780) 492-0852 

john-paul.himka@ualberta.ca

Research and Teaching Interests 

Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Iconography of the Eastern Church, Memory of World War II, Holocaust, History of the World in the Last Ten Years

Publications

Full Publication List
Color pictures of Last Judgment iconography

MONOGRAPHS

Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009.
 
Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine: The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1867-1900. Montreal; Kingston, Ontario; London; Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.
 
Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century. Edmonton, London and New York: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Macmillan, St. Martin's Press, 1988.
 
Socialism in Galicia: The Emergence of Polish Social Democracy and Ukrainian Radicalism (1860-1890). Cambridge, MA: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1983.

OTHER BOOKS

Co-editor (with Andriy Zayarnyuk). Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
 
Co-editor (with Zvi Gitelman, Lubomyr Hajda and Roman Solchanyk). Cultures and Nations of Central and Eastern Europe: Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk. Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by the Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2000. (Simultaneously published as Harvard Ukrainian Studies 22 [1998].)
 
Co-editor (with Hans-Joachim Torke). German-Ukrainian Relations in Historical Perspective. Edmonton, Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1994.
 
Galicia and Bukovina: A Research Handbook about Western Ukraine, Late 19th and 20th Centuries. Historic Sites Service, Occasional Paper, 20. [Edmonton]: Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, Historic Resources Division, 1990.
 
 (Editor, translator and author of introduction.) Roman Rosdolsky, Engels and the "Nonhistoric" Peoples: The National Question in the Revolution of 1848. Glasgow: Critique Books, 1986.
 
 (Assistant editor.) Rethinking Ukrainian History. Edited by Ivan L. Rudnytsky with the assistance of.... Edmonton: The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 1981. 

ONLINE ARTICLES

True and False Lessons from the Nachtigall Episode. BRAMA: News and Community Press, 19 March 2008.

How Many Perished in the Famine and Why Does It Matter? BRAMA: News and Community Press, 2 February 2008.

Skil’ky liudei zahynulo pid chas holodu i chomu tse vazhlyvo? My – Mankurty.

War Criminality: A Blank Spot in the Collective Memory of the Ukrainian Diaspora. Spaces of Identity 5, no. 1 (April 2005).

 

Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine: The Greek Catholic Church and the Ruthenian National Movement in Galicia, 1867-1900. Montreal; Kingston, Ontario; London; Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.
 
Galician Villagers and the Ukrainian National Movement in the Nineteenth Century. Edmonton, London and New York: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Macmillan, St. Martin's Press, 1988. Polish translation of extract in Zustriczi. Kwartalnik ukrai?ski (Warsaw) (1990).
 
Socialism in Galicia: The Emergence of Polish Social Democracy and Ukrainian Radicalism (1860-1890). Cambridge, MA: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1983. Ukrainian translation 2002.