Serhii Plokhy

Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard and the director of the university's Ukrainian Research Institute. His previous books include The Gates of Europe, widely considered the definitive history of Ukraine; The Nuclear Age; The Last Empire, which received the Lionel Gelber Prize; and Chernobyl, which was awarded the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Plokhy lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.