Serhii Plokhii 

Serhii Plokhii 

Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History, Harvard University; Director, Ukrainian Research Institute
Serhii Plokhii

Serhii Plokhii is Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University, Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, and Faculty Director for the MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine program. He teaches courses and seminars on early modern and modern East European history that engage major problems in the history of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and Lithuania. His research interests include the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine.

He is the author of, among others, Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (W.W. Norton, 2022); The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present (HURI, 2021); Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (W. W. Norton, 2021); Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance (Oxford University Press, 2019); Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Basic Books, 2018); and The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Basic Books, 2015). His books have won numerous awards, including the Ballie Gifford Prize and the Shevchenko National Prize (2018).

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