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Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the Conflict Studies and Human Rights Program and the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and a Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is the author of Cleft Countries: Regional Political Divisions and Cultures in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova (Ibidem Verlag, Stuttgart, 2006) and co-author of The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians Do, But Join Much Less (Cornel University Press, Ithaca, 2004). His articles appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Public Policy, Nationalities Papers, Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost', Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Post-Soviet Affairs, Problems of Post-Communism, Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, U sviti matematyky, and Ukrainian Quarterly.
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 13, 2012 Katyn in Reverse in Ukraine: Nazi-led Massacres turned into Soviet Massacres
The remains of almost 400 people have been recently excavated in a Ukrainian town. In spite of the evidence that they were Jews executed by the Nazis, almost all the media, experts, and officials in Ukraine publicly claimed that Polish victims of Soviet massacres were uncovered. This misrepresentation is linked to involvement of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists in the murder and a recent rise of its successor party.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 3, 2010 A Terrorist as "Hero of Ukraine"
The op-ed examines implications of a recent decision by President of Ukraine to award "Hero of Ukraine" title to a leader of the Organization of Ukrainian
Nationalists, which was implicated in terrorism, including an assassination attempt against President Roosevelt, and mass murder of Jews, Ukrainians, and other civilians, for the second round of the presidential elections on February 7, 2010
7, 2010.