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Dr. Liber is the Department's historian of Russia, the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Ukraine. He also serves as the Faculty Advisor to Phi Alpha Theta and to The Vulcan Historical Review.

Education:
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1986
M.A., Harvard University, 1977 (the Soviet Union Program)
B.A., with Honors, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1975

Research Interests:
Soviet, post-Soviet, and East European social history; center-periphery relations in the Soviet Union, and its successor states; nationalism and national-identity formation; twentieth-century Ukrainian history; history of the world since 1945 

Teaching Areas:
Soviet, post-Soviet, and East European social history; center-periphery relations in the Soviet Union, and its successor states; nationalism and national-identity formation; history of the world since 1945

Recent Courses:
HY 102 Western Civilization, Early Modern Period to the Present
HY 234/390 The World Since 1945
HY 263 Imperial Russian History
HY 264 The Russian Revolutions, 1917-1921
HY 300 The Historian's Craft
HY 370 Gorbachev and the End of the USSR
HY 469 Stalin and Stalinism
HY 672 The World Since 1945
HY 672 Nations and National Development Since 1789