“UPROOTING PEOPLE TO MAKE

BORDERS STICK”

A STANTON SHARP LECTURE

by Kathryn Brown, Associate Professor of History

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2008

Reception at 6:00 p.m. Lecture at 6:30 p.m.

McCord Auditorium, 306 Dallas Hall

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

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From 1923-1953, the Polish-Ukrainian-Jewish-German borderlands on the western fringes of the Soviet Union became a Ukrainian heartland, cleared of its minority populations and moved to central Ukraine.  The story of how native inhabitants became ‘alien’ and slated for removal, starts, ironically, with progressive Soviet nationality policies.

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Professor Kate Brown is author of A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland, which won the American Historical Assn.’s George Louis Beer Prize for the Best Book in International European History, and the Heldt Prize from the Assn. of Women in Slavic Studies.  She has published in the American Historical Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Harper’s on-line edition, Kritika, and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement.

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Sponsored by the William P. Clements Department of History and Dedman College. 

The Stanton Sharp Lecture is free & open to the public. ■■ Seating is not reserved. 

■■ Visitor parking is available in the parking garages at either Daniel & Hillcrest or Daniel & Airline.  For a campus map go to http://smu.edu/maps/.   ■■ For more information, please call 214-768-2967, or e-mail  hist@smu.edu.