Education:
Ph.D. - University of Toronto, 2007
Candidate of Historical Sciences – Kyiv National Shevchenko University, 2001
M.A. – Kyiv National Shevchenko University, 1997

Interests & Research
Serhiy Bilenky, term assistant professor, specializes in modern East European and Russian imperial histories, with special attention to nationalism and to urban issues in Ukraine, Russia, and Poland in the nineteenth century. At Columbia, Serhiy Bilenky has taught such courses as "History of Modern Ukraine," "Empire and Nation: Nationalities in the Russian Empire," and "Cities and Empires in Central-and Eastern Europe."

He is the author of Mykhailo Maksymovych and the Educational Practices in Right-Bank Ukraine in the First Half of the 19th Century (in Ukrainian, 1999). His new book Romantic Nationalism in Eastern Europe: Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian Political Imaginations (Stanford University Press forthcoming) examines the views of East European intelligentsia on empire and nationality in the 1830s and 1840s.