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Canadian Association of Ukrainian Studies

The Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies (CAUS) was created on the basis of the Conference on Ukrainian Studies (CUF), which had a long standing relationship with the CAS. A poll—conducted among the CUF in the fall of 2000—resulted in 91.5% of participating respondents voting to create the CAUS as an autonomous affiliate of the CAS. In 2002 there was broad participation by Ukrainianists in numerous panels of the CAS at its annual conference, which was being held at the University of Toronto. During this occasion the CAUS was officially constituted and Roman Senkus (CIUS Toronto Office) was elected its first president.

The official organ of the CAUS is East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, a scholarly, peer-reviewed, online periodical, published by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS). EWJUS is an open access journal, so all its publications are available for free and without subscription: https://www.ewjus.com/index.php/ewjus/issue/archive. 

EWJUS succeeds the previously published Journal of Ukrainian Studies, which appeared between 1976 and 2012 under the aegis of the CIUS. 

To join the CAUS, membership in the CAS is required. For more information, see CAS membership page.

Canadian Association of Ukrainian Studies
2025 Book Prize announcement

The Professional Affairs Committee of the Canadian Association of Ukrainian Studies (Heather Coleman, Taras Koznarsky, and Andrii Krawchuk) are delighted to announce the results of the 2025 CAUS Book Prize competition (postponed to this year).
 
WINNER:  Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel, Russia and Ukraine:  Entangled Histories, Diverging States (Polity Press, 2024).
 
Popova and Shevel identify an escalatory cycle that led to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In a measured and robust argument, the authors demonstrate how, despite their entangled histories, the two countries interpreted the collapse of the USSR very differently and embarked on separate trajectories: Ukraine toward democratization and a European course, and Russia toward autocracy and re-Sovietization. In a solidly constructed and balanced analysis, the authors make a strong case for the real “root causes” of Russian military aggression, as opposed to Kremlin narratives. They deflate the manufactured platitudes of NATO expansion, and thoughtfully scrutinize the challenges of Ukraine’s fragile democracy. This book is essential reading on the origins and the political dynamics underlying Russia’s war against Ukraine.
 
HONOURABLE MENTION:  Serhiy Bilenky, Laboratory of Modernity:  Ukraine Between Empire and Nation, 1772-1914 (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2023).
 
Serhiy Bilenky’s magisterial monograph, Laboratory of Modernity. Ukraine Between Empire and Nation, 1772-1914 fills a great gap in Ukrainian historiography (both in Ukrainian and English) by providing an ambitious, multifaceted synthesis of nineteenth-century social history, political and economic developments, urban transformations, and cultural history.  It covers a vast body of resources, paves a way for new research directions, and is destined to become a definitive reference volume for years to come.  The monograph boldly puts Ukraine at the centre of the history of Europe and of European empires and convincingly argues for the importance and distinctiveness of the Ukrainian case in the long nineteenth century.
 

Canadian Association of Ukrainian Studies
2024 Article Prize announcement

Jury members Heather Coleman, Taras Koznarsky, and Natalia Khanenko-Friesen are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 Article Prize of the Canadian Association of Ukrainian Studies is Dr. Olga Andriewsky (Trent University) for her article “Dangerous Illusions and Fatal Subversions: Russia, Subjugated Rus΄, and the Origins of the First World War” [Slavic Review 82, no. 2 (Summer 2023) DOI 10.1017/slr.2023.170].

The committee unanimously placed it at the top of the list in recognition of the depth of research, richness of ideas, and crucial contribution to the current decolonization discussion in our field.

The committee also awarded an honourable mention to Dr. Tanya Richardson (Wilfrid Laurier University) for her ground-breaking article,”Litigating for Legality: Nature Conservation, Commercial Fisheries and Disputed Territoriality in Ukraine’s Danube Delta” [Journal of Agrarian Change (2021): 1-23, DOI 10.1111/joac.12444].

Warmest congratulations to our winners for their marvellous new contributions to our field!