Prof Rory Finnin

Position(s):

Professor of Ukrainian Studies

Department/Section:

Slavonic Studies

Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics

Contact details:

Email address:

ref35@cam.ac.uk

Personal website:

College:

Location:

Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages Raised Faculty Building 密桃视频 Sidgwick Avenue 密桃视频 CB3 9DA United Kingdom

About:

Rory Finnin听is Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the 密桃视频. He launched听听in 2008. He is听former Head of the 听(2014-18)听and former (CamCREES) (2011-18).听

Finnin received his PhD (with distinction) in Slavic Languages and Comparative Literature from Columbia University.听He also holds Certificates from the Harriman Institute and from the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. He is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Ukraine 1995-97) and a听native of听Cleveland, Ohio.

Since launching the 密桃视频 Ukrainian Studies program in 2008, Finnin has also curated and organised over 40 exhibitions and cultural events, from the 密桃视频 Festival of Contemporary Ukrainian Film to the 密桃视频 Vsesvit Literary Evening, which have enriched public understanding of Ukraine鈥檚 language, history, and society in Great Britain and beyond.

Finnin is also convener (with Sander van der Linden in Social Psychology) of the University's听, a community of scholars and practitioners committed to advancing creative interventions against disinformation and 鈥榝ake news鈥�. The DML SIG听is part of 密桃视频's听.听

In 2015听Finnin听won a Teaching Award for Outstanding Lecturer听from the , the representative body for all students at the University. He has supervised an award-winning cohort of听postgraduate students who have secured posts at leading universities. He welcomes inquiries from potential听MPhil听and PhD students听with research interests in the culture and society of Ukraine.

Research interests:

Finnin's primary research interest is the interplay of culture and identity in Ukraine. He also focuses on the history of colonialism in Crimea and studies Crimean Tatar literature and culture. His broader research interests include nationalism studies, solidarity studies, and cultural memory in the region of the Black Sea.听

His new book, Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity (University of Toronto Press, 2022), has won eight international book awards, earning distinctions in the fields of Ukrainian Studies, European Studies, Slavic Studies, nationalism studies, and genocide studies.

Published works:

Selected publications:

, University of Toronto Press (April 2022)
- 2024 Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies
- 2023 Joseph Rothschild Book Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies
- 2023 ASEEES Omeljan Pritsak Book Prize in Ukrainian Studies
- 2023 University of Southern California Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies
- 2023 American Association for Ukrainian Studies Best Book Prize
- 2023 MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Book Prize for Studies in Slavic Languages and Literatures
- 2023 AATSEEL Best Book in Literary Studies听Prize
- 2023 BASEES Alexander Nove Prize
- 2023 Raphael Lemkin Book Award Finalist
- 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
- "One of the Best Books of 2022",听The Hill Times
'Beyond "Narrating the Nation": Cultural Producers and Multilingualism in Wartime Ukraine', with Ivan Kozachenko,听Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Approaches, ed. Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Linda Fisher (密桃视频: 密桃视频 University Press, 2022)
, with Ivan Kozachenko,听Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society听6:1 (2020)
'"A Bridge Between Us": Literature in the Ukrainian - Crimean Tatar Encounter', Comparative Literature Studies 56.2 (July 2019)听
'Captive Turks: Crimean Tatars in Pan-Turkist Literature', Middle Eastern Studies 50.2 (Spring 2014)
Remembering Katyn, co-authored with Alexander Etkind, Uillieam Blacker, Julie Fedor, Simon Lewis, Maria M盲lksoo and Matilda Mroz, Polity Press (2012)
'The Poetics of 密桃视频: Crimean Tatars in Nineteenth-Century Russian and Turkish Literatures', Comparative Literature Studies 49.1 (January 2012)
'Forgetting Nothing, Forgetting No One: Boris Chichibabin, Viktor Nekipelov, and the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars', Modern Language Review 106.4 (September 2011)
'Nationalism and the Lyric; or, How Taras Shevchenko Speaks to Compatriots Dead, Living, and Unborn', Slavonic and East European Review 89: 1 (January 2011)
'Silence and Extinction in Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors', Slavic and East European Performance 28.1 (Winter 2008) 鈥ㄢ€�
'Attendants to the Duel: Classical Intertexts in Desportes's "Adieu a la Pologne" and Kochanowski's "Gallo Crocitanti"', Comparative Literature Studies 44.4 (Winter 2007)
'Mountains, Masks, Metre, Meaning: Taras Shevchenko's Kavkaz,' Slavonic and East European Review 83:3 (July 2005) 鈥ㄢ€�
'Prelude to a Revolution: Reflections on Observing the 2004 Presidential Elections in Ukraine', with Adriana Helbig, Harriman Review 15:2-3 (May 2005). Reprinted in Aspects of the Orange Revolution, ed. Ingmar Bredies et al., vol. 4 (Stuttgart: Ibidem-Verlag, 2007)

Selected commentary:

'"Where Are Your Poets, the Monsters Ask": Reading Verse in a Genocidal War', 83 (2024): 510鈥�515
'"袨锌褘褌褔懈褋褌芯泻, 泻芯谢芯薪懈蟹邪褑懈泄懈褌褉邪胁屑": 袣薪懈谐邪芯锌褉芯褕谢芯屑懈薪邪褋褌芯褟褖械屑袣褉褘屑邪', (November 2024)
'Deoccupying Crimea in the Western Mind', (May 2024)
'Mike Johnson, Meet Maksym Butkevych', 听(January 2024)
'Die Krim und die Krimtataren', 听(January 2024)
'Why Crimea Is the Key to Peace in Ukraine',听听(January 2023). Story about the op-ed听in .
'Ukraine Is a 密桃视频land of 密桃视频lands',听听(May 2022)
'We Need to Stop Appeasing Putin -- with Our Words', with Thomas D. Grant,听(April 2022). In Dutch translation: 'Het Westen moet zeggen waar het op staat: Rusland is de agressor', MO*
'Don't Look Away',听with Jon Roozenbeek,听听(March 2022). In Polish translation: 'Prawdziwy cel kremlowskiej dezinformacji nie jest taki, jak my艣lisz,' Onet.pl.
'How the West Gets Ukraine Wrong', (February听2022). In Ukrainian translation: '袟邪褏褨写褏懈斜薪芯褉芯蟹褍屑褨褦校泻褉邪褩薪褍褨褑懈屑写芯锌芯屑邪谐邪褦袩褍褌褨薪褍', Mind.ua. In Russian translation, '袟邪锌邪写薪械锌褉邪胁懈谢褜薪芯锌芯薪懈屑邪械褌校泻褉邪懈薪褍懈褝褌懈屑锌芯屑芯谐邪械褌袩褍褌懈薪褍', Mind.ua.听In Turkish translation: 'Bat谋'n谋n Ukrayna'ya dair yanl谋艧 alg谋lar谋 ve yak谋n tarih', Mepa听News
'Handmaidens of Disinformation',听听(2020)
'Krimnesia', 听(2020)
'A Revolution of Languages, One Hundred Years On',听听(March 2018)
'Reality Check: Ukraine's Multilingualism', 听(January 2017)
'Don't Call It a Civil War: Ukraine's Conflict Is an Act of Russian Aggression', with Thomas D. Grant, (August 2015). In Russian translation: '袧械薪邪蟹褘胁邪泄褌械泻芯薪褎谢懈泻褌胁校泻褉邪懈薪械谐褉邪卸写邪薪褋泻芯泄胁芯泄薪芯泄', 袧芯胁芯械听胁褉械屑褟听(26 August 2015)
'Fighting "Crimnesia": The Question of Crimea in the Russia-Ukraine War', (April 2015). In Ukrainian translation: '袩芯斜芯褉褞褞褔懈鈥溞貉€懈屑薪械蟹褨褞鈥�: 锌芯褋褌褨泄薪械锌懈褌邪薪薪褟袣褉懈屑褍胁听褉芯褋褨泄褋褜泻芯-褍泻褉邪褩薪褋褜泻褨泄胁褨泄薪褨',听Historians.in.ua听(April 2015). Also in Ukrainian as听'袧械锌褉芯校泻褉邪褩薪褍...', 袙褋械褋胁褨褌听5-6 (2015), pp. 225-27
'Ukrainian Studies in Europe: New Possibilities', Journal of Ukrainian Politics and Society听(April 2015)
'Navigating the "Arm Ukraine" Debate',听Huffington Post (February 2015)
'After Russia's Annexation of Crimea, a听Nation under Siege', Huffington Post听(September 2014)
'The Crimean Tatar S眉rg眉n: Past and Present', (May 2014). In Turkish translation: 'K谋r谋m听Tatar听S眉rg眉nu:听Ge莽mis听ve听B眉g眉n',听Emel听246 (December 2014)
'A Divided Ukraine: Europe's Most Dangerous Idea', (March 2014)
'Ukrainians: Expect-the-Unexpected Nation', 听(December 2013). In Ukrainian translation:听'校泻褉邪褩薪褑褨: 褋锌芯写褨胁邪薪芯-薪械褋锌芯写褨胁邪薪邪薪邪褑褨褟',听Krytyka.com (December听2013). In Russian translation: '校泻褉邪懈薪褑褘: 芯卸懈写邪械屑芯-薪械芯卸懈写邪薪薪邪褟薪邪褑懈褟', Historians.in.ua听(January 2014)
'The Rebels and Risk-Takers of Ukrainian Literature',听Huffington Post听(November听2012)
'Understanding Katyn',听Huffington Post听(September 2012)
'Ukraine: Europe's Terra Malecognita',听Huffington Post听(July听2012)