Serhiy Bilenky is Research Associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta and Editor-In-Chief of East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies (since 2023). He also has been Programs Director of Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute since 2015. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, he graduated from Kyiv National Shevchenko University, from which he also received his Candidate of Sciences degree (1997). He received his PhD in History from the University of Toronto (2007). Bilenky taught courses on Russian, Ukrainian, and east European histories at the University of Toronto, Columbia University, and Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute. Among his publications is Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations (Stanford University Press, 2012) and Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv, 1800-1905 (University of Toronto Press, 2018). He’s also the editor of the selected writings of the leading 19th-century Ukrainian intellectuals Fashioning Modern Ukraine: Selected Writings of Mykola Kostomarov, Volodymyr Antonovych, and Mykhailo Drahomanov (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 2014). His most recent book is Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914 (McGill-Queen’s University Press and CIUS, 2023) – a multidisciplinary history of Ukraine during the “long” 19th century.