Posted on March 11, 2002 at 10:35 a.m.

BIRMINGHAM, AL — George O. Liber, Ph.D., associate professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), has received a $3,100 Short-Term Grant from the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in Washington D.C.

The Kennan Institute Short-Term Grant is a residential fellowship awarded to scholars for research at the Institute. Liber will use the grant to work on his third book, an examination of Soviet nationality policy from 1917 to 1991.

Liber studies Soviet history, Soviet nationalities issues and post-Soviet political trends. His research interests also include the study of comparative nationalist and revolutionary movements. Liber is the author of Soviet Nationality Policy, Urban Growth and Identity Change in the Ukrainian SSR, 1923-1934, (Cambridge University Press, 1992), and co-editor of Nonconformity and Dissent in the Ukrainian SSR, 1955-1975: An Annotated Bibliography, (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 1978).

His latest book, Alexander Dovzhenko: A Life in Soviet Film is due out this summer.