Meet the Speaker: George Liber

Dr. George Liber is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Alabama Birmingham. His research interests include Soviet, post-Soviet, and East European social history; center-periphery relations in the Soviet Union and its successor states; nationalism and national identity formation; processes of democratization; and 20th-century Ukrainian history. Dr. Liber has dedicated a lifetime to researching, with extended periods in Washington, DC, and Kyiv, Ukraine; he also served as a fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Book publications include Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954 (University of Toronto Press) and Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934 (Cambridge University Press).