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Borderlands: Ethnicity, Identity, and Violence in the Shatter-Zone of Empires Since 1848

Watson Institute for International Studies

Project Plan, 2003-2006

 

Borderlands

The Borderlands Region

Themes and Significance

Schedule

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Questions, Results, Implications

Contacts

Contacts

Participating Institutions

Simon Dubnow Institute (SDI), Leipzig, Germany:

Dan Diner, Director: hammer@dubnow.de
Dan Diner is the Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. He also holds academic appointments at both the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as well as at Leipzig. His current research focuses on the history of the Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Suzanne Zepp, Deputy Director: zepp@dubnow.de
Suzanne Zepp is the Deputy to the Director of the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig.

Stephan Wendehorst:wendehorst@dubnow.de
Stephan Wendehorst is Senior Research Fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. His current research focuses on the transition from multinational empires to nation-states in the interwar period. Dr. Wendehorst is on leave for the 2003-4 academic year.

Frank Nesemann, researcher: nesemann@dubnow.de
Frank Nesemann is Research Fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. His interests include the political history of Finland and Scandinavia, Russian and East European history, the history of the Islamic and Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia and the Soviet Union, Jewish history, and minority questions in Central and Eastern Europe. His current research concerns the Zionist Leo Motzkin, who sought to buttress the status of minorities through his work both international law and non-governmental diplomacy in the interwar period.

Kai Struve
, researcher: struve@dubnow.de
Kai Struve is Research Fellow at the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Leipzig. His current research project is "History and Memory: Jewish-Polish-Ukrainian Relations in the Polish Eastern Borderlands During the Second World War." His other research interests include nationalism and nation-building in East Central Europe, Polish and Ukrainian history in 19th and 20th centuries, and the Polish-German borderlands.

 

Updated December 17, 2003