Lubomyr Luciuk

Lubomyr Luciuk was born and raised in Kingston, Ontario. His education began at St. Joseph's School, Cathedral School and Regiopolis-Notre Dame. He earned two degrees from Queen's University, an Honours BSc (1976) and MA (1979). He completed his Ph.D. (1984) at the University of Alberta. He had postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto and Queen's University, including the SSHRCC Canada Research Fellowship at the Department of Geography, Queen's University.

Since 1990 he has been a professor of Political Geography in the Department of Politics and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada, in Kingston.^[1]

He has worked for the Royal Ontario Museum, Cataraqui Creek Conservation Authority and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, as well as for the Multicultural History Society of Ontario and Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies.

Luciuk has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, and has taught for the Departments of Geography at Queen's University, the University of Toronto and the University of the Witswatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa as well as for the Department of History at the University of British Columbia and Department of International Relations and Political Science at Bogazici University, in Istanbul, Turkey.

He is the author or editor of over a dozen books and almost 200 opinion editorials published in Canada's leading newspapers, as well as being a frequent commentator on the CBC, National Public Radio (USA) and BBC.

Lubomyr Luciuk specializes in the political geography of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, refugee studies, and the ethnic and immigration history of Canada. The author, co-author or co-editor of over a dozen books and booklets, and nearly 200 opinion editorials in leading Canadian newspapers, Luciuk has served as a Member of the federal Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada and as director of research for the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association. From 2007 to 2010 he served as chairman of UCCLA (www.uccla.ca) and is currently its director of research.

On 6 November 2010 Luciuk received the prestigious Shevchenko Medal from the Ukrainian Canadian Congress in recognition of his distinguished educational, research and advocacy on behalf of the Ukrainian Canadian community. The award was presented to him in Edmonton during the UCC's triennial congress, by Paul Grod, its president.

Among his many academic awards and distinctions Luciuk has received doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, including the prestigious Canada Research Fellowship, a Neporany Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and the Chair of Ukrainian Studies Foundation's John Sopinka Award for Excellence in Ukrainian Studies. He is a member of (the now disbanded) Branch 360 of The Royal Canadian Legion, the Writers' Union of Canada and a fellow of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto as well as being a former member of the executive of the Kingston and the Islands Conservative Party of Canada's riding association.

Luciuk was the leading champion of the Ukrainian Canadian community's request that the Government of Canada acknowledge what happened to Ukrainians and other Europeans during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920, a campaign that took some 20 years to succeed and only recently (9 May 2008) resulted in the signing of a technical document establishing a $10 million endowment within the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, the interest accruing on that principal to be used for commemorative and educational programs dealing with the wartime experience of these communities (see the announcement in the national edition of The Globe and Mail, 12 September 2009). He was appointed as a member of the Endowment Council of the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund (www.internmentcanada.ca) by UCCLA. Recently he served as chairman (pro tempore) of the Department of Politics and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada, the first Canadian of Ukrainian heritage to enjoy this distinction.

On 18 November 2011, Luciuk gave a public reading on his new publication The Holodomor and the Holy See, at the Ukrainian National Federation Hall in Toronto. While permitting television media to record the public event, Luciuk censored new media from recording and pressured organizers to physically remove videographers if they did not shut off their cameras during his remarks. This earned him the distinction of being the first Ukrainian-Canadian professor in Canadian history to successfully censor a public talk about the Ukrainian Holodomor.^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2461256 Lubomyr Luciuk
2. ^ https://www.facebook.com/notes/william-szuch/ukrainian-canadian-professor-from-royal-military-college-of-canada-censors-publi/10150489344539505

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