Steven Seegel earned his Ph.D. in history in 2005 at Brown University. For the past year, he has held the position of lecturer at the University of Tennessee. He will come to Harvard for four months (August-May, 2006) to research the topic "Cartography and the Representation of Modern Ukraine." His work looks at the strategic use of the discourse of historical/geographic science and racial/ethnolinguistic categorization to represent a modern Ukraine between the Russian and Habsburg empires, as well as the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.