The Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Eyes of a Historian

Please join us on Tuesday 24 June for a special lecture, The Russo-Ukrainian War Through the Eyes of a Historian, given by Dr Serhii Plokhy, the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, on the occasion of the award of his honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford.

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Professor Serhii Plokhii is a historian and author, widely recognised for his scholarship on Eastern Europe. He is the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Professor Plokhii was born in the Soviet Union. He spent much of his early life in Ukraine. He earned his undergraduate degree in history and social sciences (1980) at Dnipropetrovsk University (now Oles Honchar Dnipro National University), where he went on to become a Professor. He later taught and conducted research at the University of Alberta in Canada, where he also served as the Associate Director of the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research and founded the research program on Religion and Culture at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. He has published extensively, and his books have won numerous awards.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04-23-honorary-degree-recipients-2025-announced