Education
He completed his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University Bachelor of Arts in 1966. Master of Arts 1969, Doctor of Philosophy 1972.
He completed his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University Bachelor of Arts in 1966. Master of Arts 1969, Doctor of Philosophy 1972.
He has been with the university since 1980, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1996. He currently acts as Honorary Chairman of the World Congress of Rusyns, and has authored many books on Rusyn history. Born in Englewood, New Jersey, Magocsi (his surname Magocsi is pronounced something like "magótchy", varying in different languages) is of Hungarian and Ruthenian (Rusyn) descent.
1967, Princeton University in Master of Arts In 2013 he was awarded doctor honoris causa by the University of Presov in Slovakia.
Magocsi has taught at Harvard University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1996 he was appointed permanent fellow of the Royal Society of Canada - Canadian Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences.
Besides his primary focus on East-Central European history, Magocsi is a scholar of nationality and ethnicity more generally, and edited the collection Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: A Short Introduction (2002).
2002: The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism: Galicia as Ukraine"s Piedmont, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
He then went to Harvard University, where he was a member of the Society of Fellows between 1973 and 1976.