Due to unforseen circumstances, Prof. Anna Dolize will no longer be able to give the Keynote address. We are thankful for the opportunity to have Prof. Markian a visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow speak in her place and apologize for any confusion caused by the last minute chance of speaker.
"A Historical Perspective on the Ukraine Crisis: States, Stability, and the Soviet Legacy"
Presented by Dr. Markian Dobczansky
February 9, 2017
Time: 17:15
Location: The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility,
Munk School of Global Affairs (South House), 1 Devonshire Place
Dr. Markian Dobczansky is a historian of the Soviet Union. His specializations include Russian-Ukrainian relations, Soviet nationalities policy, and the politics of culture. He is currently the Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow in Ukrainian Politics, Culture, and Society at the University of Toronto, where he teaches a course on comparative nationalisms in Russia and Ukraine. He has conducted archival research in Moscow, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Washington, D.C., and at the Hoover Institution in California. Dr. Dobczansky is working on a book manuscript about the intersection between Soviet, Ukrainian, and local identity in Kharkiv in the twentieth century. He has presented his research at academic conferences in the United States, Ukraine, Russia, and Lithuania. Dr. Dobczansky received a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University, where he focused on the Soviet Union, Russian Empire, and Eastern Europe. His dissertation “From Soviet Heartland to Ukrainian Borderland: Searching for Identity in Kharkiv, 1943—2004” utilized Soviet archival sources, published materials, and interviews to examine local identity in Ukraine’s second largest city over the second half of the twentieth century. While writing his dissertation, he received a Mellon pre-doctoral fellowship at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He received a B.A. in European History and German Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He was born in Silver Spring, Maryland.