Zenon Eugene Kohut[a] (born January 18, 1944) is a Canadian historian specializing in early modern Ukrainian history.

Zenon Kohut was born in Yaniv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ivano-Frankove, Ukraine) in the Galicia region.

After the Second World War, Kohut's parents emigrated with him as political refugees to the United States and settled in Philadelphia.

[1] Zenon Kohut attended La Salle College in Philadelphia (BA 1966) and the University of Pennsylvania (MA 1970, PhD 1975).

[3] Dr. Kohut also worked as editor of the American Bibliography of Soviet and East European Studies (1980–84) and as a senior research analyst at the Library of Congress (1984–89).