DOMINIQUE AREL is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He received his BA from the University of Montreal, his Master’s degree from McGill University, and his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Arel’s interests range from nationalism and language politics to politics of identity and the censuses. 

Arel co-edited Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine (John Hopkins University Press, 2006). As the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa, he has organized the Annual Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine since 2005. Professor Arel manages The Ukraine List (UKL), an internet academic/current events newsletter that reaches over 1,500 subscribers in thirty-five countries.

2017 02 03 Dominique Arel: The War in Donbas: Origins, Naming, Implications

Founded in June 1973, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) serves as a focal point for graduate and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing research in Ukrainian language, literature, and history as well as in anthropology, archaeology, art history, economics, political science, sociology, theology, and other disciplines. 