Faculty
George O. Liber, Ph.D.
Professor
Columbia University
gliber@uab.edu
George O. Liber, a social historian, conducts research on Soviet history, Soviet nationalities issues, and post-Soviet political trends. He is also interested in the studies of comparative nationalist and revolutionary movements. He is the author of Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth, and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934 (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and Alexander Dovzhenko: A Study in Soviet Film (British Film Institute, 2002); the co-editor of Nonconformity and Dissent in the Ukrainian SSR, 1955-1975: An Annotated Bibliography (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1978). He has published in articles in Nations and Nationalism, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Soviet Studies, Slavic Review, and Nationalities Papers. He is now working on a new monograph, tentatively entitled: The Soviet Union and the Dialectics of Nation-Building, 1917-1991. The Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Teachers of Russian, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Center on East-West Trade, Investment and Communications at Duke University, and the UAB Graduate School have supported Liber's research.
For questions concerning his research, please contact Dr. Liber.
