# Serhii Plokhii Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History, Harvard University; Director, Ukrainian Research Institute ![Serhii Plokhii](/sites/g/files/omnuum4941/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/mapa/files/serhii_plokhii_3-1_1_0_0_0_0.jpg?itok=Vdk9NyBe) location\_on HURI - Room 23 34 Kirkland Street, Cambridge , MA 02138 CGIS - South Building, Room 431 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 smartphone [617-495-3527](tel:617-495-3527) email laptop\_windows [Department of History, Harvard University](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/serhii-plokhii) laptop\_windows [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Serhii-Plokhy/e/B001H6KWTU?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1597280010&sr=8-1) **Serhii Plokhii** is Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University, Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, and Faculty Director for the MAPA: Digital Atlas of Ukraine program. He teaches courses and seminars on early modern and modern East European history that engage major problems in the history of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and Lithuania. His research interests include the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine. He is the author of, among others, *Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters* (W.W. Norton, 2022); *The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present* (HURI, 2021); *Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis* (W. W. Norton, 2021); *Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance* (Oxford University Press, 2019); *Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe* (Basic Books, 2018); and *The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine* (Basic Books, 2015). His books have won numerous awards, including the Ballie Gifford Prize and the Shevchenko National Prize (2018). - ## Projects [Chornobyl](/projects/chornobyl) [Golden Age of Kyivan Rus](/projects/golden-age-kyivan-rus) [Revolution of Dignity](/projects/revolution-dignity-project) [The Great Famine](/projects/great-famine-project) [Historic Podillya](/projects/historic-podillya-project) [Rus' Genealogy](/projects/rus-genealogy-project) [Ukraine and Russia: Together or Apart?](/projects/ukraine-and-russia-together-or-apart) - ## Role [MAPA Team](/role/mapa-team)