TARAS KUZIO

Taras Kuzio is an inaugural Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham. His previous positions have included a Resident Fellow at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, and Adjunct Research Professor, Institute for European and Russian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa. Taras Kuzio has also served as Head of Mission of the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Taras Kuzio is the author and editor of 14 books, including Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives on Nationalism and Ukraine-Crimea-Russia: Triangle of Conflict, both published in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society series by Ibidem-Verlag, 2007. He is the author of 5 think tank monographs and 25 book chapters, the most recent being ‘Civic Nationalism and the Nation-State: Towards a Dynamic Model of Convergence’ in Ireneusz P. Karolewski and Andrzej Marcin Suszycki eds., Nationalism in Contemporary Europe (Banham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2009) and ‘Ukraine. Muddling Along’ in Sharon L. Wolchik and Jane L. Curry eds., Central and East European Politics: From Communism to Democracy, Second Edition (Banham, MD: Roman and Littlefield, 2011). He has authored over 60 scholarly articles on post-communist politics, Ukraine, and nationalism and has guest edited 6 special issues of academic journals, including a recent issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies on ‘Communist Successor Parties in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia’. He is the editor of the bi-monthly Ukraine Analyst.

Taras Kuzio received a BA in Economics from the University of Sussex, an MA in Soviet Studies from the University of London and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Birmingham, England. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale University.