He is chief editor of the scholarly journal "Ukraine Modern" and is a member of the editorial board of the journals Ab Imperio, Critique, and Slavic Review, and a member of the supervisory board of Harvard Ukrainian Studies.
He earned his PhD in 1987 at the University of Lviv. Hrytsak passed his habilitation in 1996.[1] He has been director of the Institute for Historical Research, at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv since 1992.[2]
In 1998 he won an award of "Przegląd Wschodni" for the best foreign book on Eastern Europe.[1] For his book about Ivan Franko he won the Antonovych prize for Intellectual Achievements and the "Best Book in Ukraine" from the leading Ukrainian magazine Кореспондент[3] and the Jerzy Giedroyc Award (founded by Maria Curie-Skłodowska University) in 2014.[4]
Books
The Spirit that Moves to Battle... A political portrait of Ivan Franko (1856-1916) (Lviv, 1990, in Ukrainian)
Essays in Ukrainian History: Making of Modern Ukrainian Nation (Kyiv, 1996, in Ukrainian) (Polish translation: Historia Ukrainy 1772-1999. Narodziny nowoczesnego narodu)
Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation, 2022 (English translation: 2023)