John-Paul Himka
John-Paul Himka | |
|---|---|
Іван-Павло Химка | |
| Born | May 18, 1949 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Michigan BA (1971) Byzantine-Slavonic Studies Ph.D. History |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Thesis | "Polish and Ukrainian Socialism: Austria, 1867–1890" (1977) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Institutions | University of Alberta |
| Main interests | History of Eastern Europe, Ukraine |
John-Paul Himka (born May 18, 1949) is an American-Canadian historian and retired professor of history of the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Himka received his BA in Byzantine-Slavonic Studies and Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan in 1971 and 1977 respectively. The title of his Ph.D. dissertation was Polish and Ukrainian Socialism: Austria, 1867–1890. As a historian, Himka was a Marxist in the 1970s–1980s but became influenced by postmodernism in the 1990s. In 2012, he defined his methodology in history as "eclectic".