As part of the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research, he participated in the publication of the English-language translation of Mykhailo Hrushevsky's History of Ukraine-Rus '. In 1996, after a number of visiting appointments as the Ramsey Tompkins Professor of Russian history at the University of Alberta, Plokhy joined the staff of the university's Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, where he founded the Research Program on Religion and Culture.

Professional background īetween 19, Plokhy taught at the University of Dnipropetrovsk, where he was promoted to the rank of full professor and held a number of administrative positions during perestroika. He received his habilitation degree in historyįrom Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1990. Of the Friendship of Peoples (1982), specializing in historiographyĪnd source studies. University of Dnipropetrovsk (1980), where he studied under professors Mykola Kovalskyi and Yuriy Mytsyk, and his graduate degree from the Russian University Plokhy received his undergraduate degree in history and social sciences from the He spent his childhood and school years in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, where his family returned soon after his birth. Serhii Plokhy was born in Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia.

Serhii Plokhy, or Plokhii ( Ukrainian: Сергій Миколайович Плохій born ) is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, where he also serves as the director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

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