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An American and Ukrainian Byzantinologist of Ukrainian descent, he was born in 1922 in Poland and grew up there. After World War II he lived in Belgium and later in the USA. Prof. Sevcenko is a member of the NASU, British Academy, American Philosophical Society, Vienna Academy, Christian Archeological Society in Athens and others. He works as a professor at the department of Byzantine History at Dumbarton Oaks College at Harvard University, and has taught at College de France, Oxford, Koeln, Munich, and other universities. He is the head of the International Society of Byzantine Studies, founder and editor of the Harvard Ukrainian Studies Journal (in English). From 1973 to 1989 he served as the deputy director and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University.
He is the author of The Society and Intellectual Life of Late Byzantium; The Ideology, Writing and Culture of the Byzantine World; Byzantium and the Slavs in Writing and Culture; Ukraine between East and West: Essays on Cultural History to the Beginning of the 18th Century. |
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