William J. Risch
Education:Ph.D. 2001 The Ohio State University
Areas of Interest
Dr. Risch's main areas of interest are modern and twentieth-century Russia, imperial Russia (1700-1917), medieval Russia, Western interpretations of Soviet history, historical constructions of Eastern Europe, Eastern and Central European history, Asian Civilizations in the modern world, nations and globalization in the modern world, Europe since 1600, Germany and France since the Enlightenment, oral history, and American historiography in the twentieth century.
Dr. Risch has received the Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fellowship in Ukrainian Studies (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Spring Semester 2006); Kennan Institute Short-Term Grant (July 2005); Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (1999-2000); Individual Research Program in Eurasia Fellowship, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), 1998-1999; Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship (1993, 1998, 1999); Senkowsky Prize, Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (1997).
Courses Taught
World Civilization II Modern European History Twentieth-Century Russia
Selected Publications
"Historical Memory as Nonconformity: Institute of Historical Sciences under Ivan Kryp'iakevych," Ukraina: kul'turna spadshchyna, natsional'na svidomist', derzhavnist' 8 (2001): 909-19.
"Soviet Flower Children': Hippies and the Youth Counter-Culture in 1970s L'viv." Journal of Contemporary History 40.3 (July 2005): 565-84.
"Thinking between Borders: Polish Media and Cultural Resistance in Post-1953 L'viv." Forthcoming article for special edition on Ukrainian identities in Canadian-American Slavic Studies.
Department of History, Geography, and Philosophy
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