Genealogy Interest Group of the University League
hosts Dr. Kathryn Ciancia to discuss her book

ON CIVILIZATION’S EDGE:
A POLISH BORDERLAND IN THE INTERWAR WORLD

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About the speaker:

Kathryn Ciancia is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she has taught since 2013. She holds a BA from Oxford University, an MA from University College-London, and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is a historian of modern Eastern Europe, with a research focus on Poland in the first half of the twentieth century.

Her first book, On Civilization’s Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World, has just been published by Oxford University Press. She is now at work on a new book about the role of Poland’s global consular network in policing the boundaries of citizenship between the end of World War I and the beginning of the Cold War.