Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak

Martha Danilovna Bohachevsky-Chomiak (born 1938 in Sokal, Ukrainian SSR) is a Soviet and American historian and Ukrainian feminist activist.

Personal life
Martha Danilovna Bohachevsky-Chomiak was born on 24 June 1938 in Sokal, Lviv Oblast, in the Ukrainian SSR.

Academic career and activism
Since the 1940s, she has lived in the United States. She graduated from college in New York. In 1960, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and in 1961 she graduated from Columbia University with a doctorate in the history of Russian philosophical thought of the nineteenth century.

She taught history in universities in New York, Washington, New Jersey, Harvard as well as the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She was a director of the Fulbright Program at George Washington University. For scientific achievements, she received the Heldt Prize (1988) and the Antonovich Foundation Prize (1990). She is a member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv and former vice-president of the Ukrainian National Women's League of America.