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Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is Assistant Professor of History at Northwestern University. He received a PhD in comparative literature from Moscow University (1988) and a Ph.D. in Modern Jewish History from Brandeis University. He has been a Rothschild Fellow at Hebrew University (Jerusalem) and an Associate Fellow at The Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. He has edited books and published numerous articles in comparative literature and Jewish history and is the author of a monograph Evrei v Russkoi Armii, 1827-1914 [Jews in the Russian Army]. Professor Petrovsky-Shtern has two books scheduled for publication in the coming year: The Anti-Imperial Choice: the Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Jew (Yale University Press) and Jews in the Russian Army (1827—1917): Drafted into Modernity (Cambridge University Press).