Festschift for Professor Frank E. Sysyn Published

Recently, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies published Volumes 33–34 (2008–2009) of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies. This 628-page quadruple issue, titled Tentorium honorum, is a collection of thirty-three essays presented to Prof. Frank E. Sysyn on the occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday.

Prof. Sysyn is a distinguished scholar of Ukrainian and Polish history and has been a major figure in the development of Ukrainian historical studies in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, and Germany for more than three decades. He is a professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta and, since 1990, Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at CIUS and editor-in-chief of its Hrushevsky Translation Project. Prof. Sysyn is the author of Between Poland and the Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600–1653 (1985), Mykhailo Hrushevsky: Historian and National Awakener (2001), and studies on the Khmelnytsky Uprising, Ukrainian historiography, and early modern Ukrainian political culture. He is also co-author, with Serhii Plokhy, of Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine (2003).

This special issue [dedicated to Frank Sysyn] was guest-edited by professors Olga Andriewsky, Zenon E. Kohut, Serhii Plokhy, and Larry Wolff. It includes essays written in honour of Prof. Sysyn by his colleagues and former students from Canada (Olga Andriewsky, Jars Balan, John-Paul Himka, Bohdan Klid, Zenon E. Kohut, Paul R. Magocsi, David Marples, Victor Ostapchuk, Uliana Pasicznyk, Frances Swyripa); Ukraine (Yaroslav Fedoruk, Andrii Grechylo, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Yaroslav Isaievych, Volodymyr Kravchenko, Yurii Mytsyk, Oleksiy Tolochko, Natalia Yakovenko); the United States (Paul Bushkovitch, David Frick, Mark von Hagen, Leonid Heretz, Nancy Shields Kollmann, Serhii Plokhy, Roman Szporluk, Larry Wolff); Poland (Teresa Chynczewska-Hennel, Danuta Poppe and Andrzej Poppe, Zbigniew Wójcik); Austria (Andreas Kappeler); England (David Saunders); Israel (Moshe Rosman); and Russia (Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva). These essays, which range from medieval to contemporary East European and Ukrainian history, reflect the breadth and impact of Prof. Sysyn’s scholarship. Tentorium honorum includes a biographical essay about Prof. Sysyn and a select bibliography of his works. Thirty-four reviews of books in the field of Ukrainian studies round out the publication. The title echoes a seventeenth-century panegyric to Adam Kysil, the Ukrainian leader and Polish statesman who was the subject of Prof. Sysyn’s groundbreaking monograph on early modern Ukraine and Poland-Lithuania.

The price of this special issue of the Journal of Ukrainian Studies is $65 in Canada and US, $75 elsewhere, including shipping and handling. In addition, CIUS Press has published an edition of Tentorium honorum without the book reviews; it is available in paperback for $39.95 and in hardcover for $69.95 (plus GST in Canada and shipping). Orders can be placed by contacting CIUS Press, 430 Pembina Hall, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2H8; tel. 780/492-2973; fax 780/492-4967; e-mail cius@ualberta.ca; or via its secure on-line ordering system at www.ciuspress.com, which provides a detailed table of contents of this and all other CIUS publications. Payment is accepted by cheque, money order, VISA, or Mastercard.

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1- Cover of JUS Special issue

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3 - Professor Frank Sysyn