Ukraine and Russia | Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon

Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon is a historian of the Soviet Union, Central Asia, Russia and East Germany (GDR), Penn Presidential Ph.D. Fellow, writer.
Kimberly received a master's degree in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia at Harvard University. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Before her doctoral studies, she was a community college history professor. Kimberly focuses on analyzing foreign policy, race and culture in the United States, Ukraine and Russia in her public research.
Her research interests cover Soviet nationality policy, race and ethnicity in the USSR and GDR, race and racism in the former Soviet Union, African-American experience in the USSR and Russia, Soviet Subjectivity, Old Believers in the Russian Empire.
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon is also a book review editor for H-Ukraine (an H-Net Network), which promotes scholarly and intellectual discussion of Ukrainian studies and history. This network strives to make available recent scholarships, teaching resources, and other material related to the academic study of Ukraine. In particular, Julian studied the events of Euromaidan in 2013-2014 and the process of Ukraine's integration into the European Union.
KSE Public lectures with top world intellectuals serve to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine and enhance Ukrainian intellectual sovereignty. More information about project: kse.ua/lectures-marathon-in-s...
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[@joiedevie3901]

Wonderful interview. The world is a remarkably complex tableau and discussions like this help us understand the world.

[@zpcossack]

Great conversation on the topics (minorities and the concept of dignity) as a counter to state-funded violence) which remain unexplored / hidden in mainstream Slavic studies! Дякую за вашу працю!

[@andrewpirr]

Only someone with a doctorate could say this sentence with a straight face 😂 "The soviet union represented both racial equality and economic opportunity" -Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon