FRANK SYSYN

2021 — 2022 JURY

Frank Sysyn graduated from Princeton University (1968), the University of London (1969), and Harvard University (PH D, 1976), taught at Harvard University (1976–1985), and served as Associate Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (1985–1988).

He is professor in the Department of History, Classics, and Religious Studies at the University of Alberta.

Frank Sysyn was appointed the first Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research in 1989 at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), the University of Alberta.

He has served as editor-in-chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project, which published the English-language translation of Mykhailo Hrushevsky’s monumental 10-volume history of Ukraine — Istoriia Ukraïny-Rusy (History of Ukraine-Rus’).

He served as Acting Director of the CIUS in 1991–93 and currently oversees the Toronto office of the Institute. He serves as the head of the executive committee of the Holodomor Research and Educational Consortium. He has also been actively engaged in the development of the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University in New York.

A specialist on early modern and modern Ukraine, Sysyn has published Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600–1653 (1985), Mykhailo Hrushevsky: Historian and National Awakener (2001), and numerous articles about the Khmelnytsky Uprising, early-modern Ukrainian historiography, Ukrainian religious history, and the Stalin-era forced famine in Ukraine, the Holodomor.

Frank Sysyn was one of the editors of the three-volume edition of the collected works of Mykhailo Zubrytsky, Zibrani tvory i materialy (Collected Works and Materials).

A Festschrift, titled Tentorium Honororum, was published in Frank Sysyn’s honor in 2010.