Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Martha [Богачевська-Хом’як, Марта; Bohačevs'ka-Xomjak, Marta], b 24 June 1938 in Sokal, Galicia. Historian. She moved with her parents to the United States of America in the later 1940s. She received her PhD in 1968 from Columbia University and was then a professor of Russian and Ukrainian history at Manhattanville College in New York from 1968 to 1986. Subsequently she headed the Program of Scholarly Studies with the National Endowment for the Humanities (1986–93) and served as director of the Fulbright Office (of the Fulbright Scholar Program) in Ukraine (2000–2006). Her works include The Spring of a Nation: The Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia in 1848 (1967), Sergei N. Trubetskoi: An Intellectual among the Intelligentsia in Prerevolutionary Russia (1976), Feminists Despite Themselves: Women in Ukrainian Community Life, 1884–1939 (1988), and a monograph on Bishop Constantine Bohachevsky Ukrainian Bishop, American Church: Constantine Bohachevsky and the Ukrainian Catholic Church (2022).

[This article was updated in 2025.]


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