Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) is a research institute founded in 1973 whose researchers are dedicated to the history , culture , language and politics of Ukraine .
After the beginnings on December 22, 1968, when the first professorship for Ukrainian studies began in Cambridge (Massachusetts) at Harvard University , the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute was founded in 1973 by the historian Omeljan Pritsak , who was also its first director. The institute was given three professorships. From 1977 the journal Harvard Ukrainian Studies (HUS) was initially published quarterly . In addition to the magazine, the institute's publishing house has also published reprints of historical Ukrainian first editions, and dissertations and other monographs are published.
The institute maintains a significant Ukraine library that extends beyond that of the New York Shevchenko Scientific Society .
Orest Subtelny was the first graduate of the institute with a dissertation.
Summer courses in Ukrainian language and culture, the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute , have been held within the institute since 1971 .
The current director of the institute is the historian Serhiy Plochyj, who grew up in eastern Ukraine. His major project, The History of Ukraine by the Ukrainian historian Mychajlo Hruschewskyj in English translation, is published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS).
A similar institute was established in 1976 in Canadian Edmonton at the University of Alberta , the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), in which the important 1984-1993, by Volodymyr Kubijowytsch issued (Volodymyr Kubijovyč) Encyclopedia of Ukraine appeared.
literature
- M. Baziuk, Art. Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, in: Encyclopedia of Ukraine 2 (1988) 127.