The Greek Catholic Church and Ukrainian society in Austrian Galicia

The Millennium Series

by John-Paul Himka

Ukrainian Church History

40 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

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 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–80s, but became influenced by postmodernism in the 1990s. In 2012 he defined his methodology in history as "eclectic".