Markian Dobczansky is Associate Director of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center. He teaches classes in Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Soviet and Ukrainian history, EU Studies, and serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Major in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Prior to joining REEEC, he served as the Associate Director of the European Union Center at the University of Illinois. He received a Ph.D. in Russian/Soviet history from Stanford University with a dissertation on the politics of culture in twentieth-century Kharkiv, and held post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Toronto and Columbia University. His research interests include the history of the Soviet Union, Ukraine, and Russia, the politics of culture, urban history, and the Cold War. He has also worked in an administrative capacity at the Central Eurasian Studies Society, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S., and the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Dr. Dobczansky is currently an Associate at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He speaks Ukrainian, Russian, and German, and has studied Qazaq and Armenian.