Lubomyr Luciuk
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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 did his Ph.D (1984) at the University of Alberta.
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.
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.
Dr. 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 more than a hundred opinion editorials published in Canada's leading newspapers, as well as being a frequent commentator on the CBC and BBC.
Professor 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 over 150 editorials in leading Canadian newspapers, Dr Luciuk has served as a Member of the federal Immigration and Refuge Board and as director of research for the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Association. He is currently chairman of UCCLA.
Among his many academic awards and distinctions Dr 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 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.
Dr Luciuk was one of the leading champions of the Ukrainian Canadian community's call upon the Government of Canada to 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 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.
