Professional Affiliation

Assistant Professor, Department of History and Geography, Georgia College and State University

Wilson Center Project

A Soviet Window to the West: Empire, Nationhood, and Cultural Resistance in the Western Borderlands, 1953-1985

Project Summary

The title of the project raises new questions about the collapse of the Soviet Union and the role nationhood played in it, using as an example students and intellectuals in the western Ukrainian city of L’viv. It points out the crucial role that regions informed by different practices of nation building played in the Soviet Union’s collapse.