John-Paul Himka
American-Canadian historian and retired professor of history of the University of Alberta in Edmonton · Canada · On the map · Writers · Born 1949 · age 77
John-Paul Himka is an 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 the University of Michigan in 1971 and 1977 respectively.
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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-1980s but became influenced by postmodernism in the 1990s. In 2012, he defined his methodology in history as "eclectic".
