Zenon Kohut


Zenon Eugene Kohut is a Canadian historian specializing in early modern Ukrainian history. He retired as professor emeritus, University of Alberta. From 1992 to 2014 Kohut worked at the University of Alberta's Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies where he served as the first head of the Stasiuk Program for the Study of Contemporary Ukraine and acted as editor of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies. He was acting director and director of the Program.

Personal background

Zenon Kohut was born in Yaniv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union in the Galicia region. After the Second World War, Kohut's parents emigrated with him as political refugees to the United States and settled in Philadelphia.

Educational background

Zenon Kohut attended La Salle College in Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.

Professional background

During the years 1973–75 and 1977–78 Kohut was a research associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and Harvard University's Russian Research Center. In between his Harvard stints he taught Russian and Ukrainian history at the University of Pennsylvania. He then taught at Michigan State University, Yale University and the University of Alberta where he held the rank of Professor of History. Dr. Kohut also worked as editor of the American Bibliography of Soviet and East European Studies and as a senior research analyst at the Library of Congress. Government work and he spent time at the U.S. Department of Defense as a Soviet political affairs analyst.

Published works

  • Kohut, Zenon. Russian Centralism and Ukrainian Autonomy. Imperial Absorption of the Hetmanate, 1760s–1830s, Harvard University Press, 1989.
  • Kohut, Zenon. Making Ukraine Studies on Political Culture, Historical Narrative, and Identity, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2011. Historical Dictionary of Ukraine, Lanham and London, 2005. Korinnia identychnosti:Studii z rannoomodernoi ta modernoi istorii Ukrainy.Culture, Nation, and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter. Edited by Andreas Kappeler, Zenon E. Kohut, Frank E. Sysyn, and Mark von Hagen. Edmonton: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2003. History as a Battleground: Russian-Ukrainian Relations and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary Ukraine Saskatoon: Heritage Press, 2002.
  • "The Question of Russo-Ukrainian Unity and Ukrainian Distinctiveness" in Early Modern Ukrainian Thought and Culture, Kennan Institute Occasional Paper #280 Rosiis'kyi tsentralizm i ukrains'ka avtonomiia. Likvidatsiia Het'manshchyna.. Kyiv, Osnovy Press, 1996.
  • Co-edited Early Modern Ukraine''. Special issue of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies, vol. 17, nos.1-2

Articles

  • “” Ukrains’kyi arkheohrafichnyi shchorichnyk, Vol. 13/14 : 291–297.
  • “Tsarstvo, dynastiia, ta etnos: Dva rann’omoderni pohliady na rosiis’ku istoriiu”, Materialy V kongresu Mizhnarodnoi asotsiatsii ukrainistiv. Istoriia: Zbirnyk naukovykh statei., Part 2 : 51-55
  • “”, Ukraina i sosednie gosudarstva v XVII veke. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi konferentsii. : 59-82
  • “A Dynastic or Ethno-Dynastic Tsardom? Two Early Modern Concepts of Russia,”, edited by Marsha Siefert. pp. 17–30.
  • “,” Jewish History, 17, no. 2, pp. 141–163.
  • “,” Culture, Nation, and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter, pp. 57–86.
  • “,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 35, no. 1, pp. 70–76; A Russian-language version of this article also appeared in Ab Imperio, no. 1-2, pp. 73–85.
  • “, “in Zvi Gitelman, Lubomyr Hajda, John-Paul Himka, and Roman Solchanyk eds., Cultures and Nations of Central and Eastern Europe: Essays in Honor of Roman Szporluk., pp. 343-358.
  • “In Search of Early Modern Ukrainian Statehood: Post-Soviet Studies of the Cossack Hetmanate,” Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 24, no. 2, pp. 101–112.
  • “Zustrich z Rosiyeiu: kul'turni tendentsii ta politychni pohliady v rann'ovovitnii Ukraiini,” Suchasnist' 9, pp. 67–76.
  • “Ukrainian-Russian Relations in Historical Perspective,” Europe 3, pp. 79–97.