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The Scholar as Nation-Builder, or as Advisor and Advocate: Remarks Delivered by Paul Robert Magocsi (Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto) for the Special Panel “Paul Robert Magocsi on the Scholar as a Nation-Builder” at the ASN 2007 World Convention, Columbia University

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Paul Robert Magocsi
Paul Robert Magocsi*
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University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3 Canada
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The Czech philosopher Tomáš G. Masaryk was a scholar and nation-builder; the Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga was a scholar and nation-builder; the Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi was a scholar and nation-builder; Paul Robert Magocsi is a scholar but not a nation-builder. Unlike the first three distinguished figures, the North American Magocsi never lived in any country among any people that was in need of being “built.” At best he may be considered an advocate or a promoter of a nationality; that is, a people in search of a distinct identity recognizable to themselves and to others.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 36 , Issue 5 , November 2008 , pp. 881 - 892
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Copyright © 2008 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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