the Department of Economics at Boston University 1992–1998; currently Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies at Harvard University's Economics Department Alexander J. Motyl – historian, Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University Anna Nagurney – mathematician, economist, educator and author in the field of Operations Management; holds the John F. Smith Memorial Professorship in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Sherwin B. Nuland - scholar and author, father of Victoria Nuland Simon Ramo – physicist; Russian–Ukrainian Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper – Captain, USN and NASA Astronaut George Shevelov – professor; Ukrainian linguist Wolodymyr Stojko - professor of Ukrainian, East European and diplomatic history Frank Sysyn – professor of Ukrainian history Roman Szporluk – historian and political scientist; former director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Sergiy Vilkomir – computer scientist; associate professor at East Carolina University Eugene Volokh – law professor, the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law; an academic affiliate of the law firm Mayer Brown; publishes the blog "The Volokh Conspiracy" Michael J. Yaremchuk – plastic surgeon Michael I. Yarymovych – Chief Scientist of the US Air Force and NASA Scientist Arnold Zellner – economist; statistician Writers and journalists Sy Bartlett – screenwriter and motion picture producer Kiran Chetry – former CNN anchor Jerry Cooke – photojournalist Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko - Ukrainian fantasy fiction writers residing in the United States Richard Ellmann – literary critic and biographer Adrian Holovaty – journalist Olena Kalytiak Davis – poet Maria Kuznetsova – novelist Mariya Livytska – writer Lera Loeb – fashion blogger and publicist Valya Dudycz Lupescu – writer Dzvinia Orlowsky – poet, translator and professor Evanka Osmak – sports anchor Chuck Palahniuk – transgressive fiction novelist and freelance journalist Anna Politkovskaya – journalist, writer Mike Royko – journalist (Ukrainian father) Michael Smerconish – CNN host Yuriy Tarnawsky – writer and linguist Neale Donald Walsch – author Other Ivann Bohdan, First Ukrainian Immigrant arrived at Jamestown Colony, 1607, with Captain John Smith. The Ukrainians in America: 1608-1975. (1976). Compiled and Edited by Vladimir Wertsman. New York: Oceana Publications. Vitaly Borker, Internet criminal and cyberbully John Demjanjuk – retired auto worker/war crimes defendant Sky Metalwala – Seattle-area child missing since 2011; born to a Ukrainian immigrant mother. Semion Mogilevich – alleged "boss of bosses" of most Russian Mafia syndicates Jackie Stallone – astrologer and mother of Sylvester Stallone, maternal Jewish descent