News of Alumni: Adrian Oryshkevych '99 and Markian Dobczansky '01

On Wednesday, March 2, Gonzaga Social Studies Teacher and alumnus Adrian Oryshkevych '99 and  Dr. Markian Dobczansky, Ph.D., of the Gonzaga Class of 2001, hosted a webinar for the Gonzaga community called "Understanding Ukraine: A Brief History."
 
Markian Dobczansky is an Associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) and an administrative associate at the Shevchenko Scientific Society in the U.S. A historian of the Soviet Union, Russian-Ukrainian relations, and urbanization, he is completing a book manuscript titled Between Moscow and Kyiv: The Politics of Culture in Soviet Kharkiv. The book traces the development of local identity in Kharkiv, the largest metropolis of the Ukrainian-Russian cultural borderland from 1917 to the 1990s. He received a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University and has held fellowships at the George Washington University, the University of Toronto, and Columbia University. 
 
You can watch the full webinar here, which includes a brief history leading up to the current war in the Ukraine, and concludes with a question and answer session. Thank you Mr. Oryshkevych and Mr. Dobcansky for helping the Gonzaga community understand this very important issue.

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