William Risch

William Risch

William Risch

William Risch is a visiting assistant professor in the History Department at the University of Toledo in Ohio. He earned a Ph.D. in history in 2001 at Ohio State University. He will spend four months at Harvard (February–May 2006) to work on the topic "Ukraine's Window to the West: Identity and Cultural Nonconformity in Lviv, 1953–85." Risch will study the role nationhood played in the collapse of the Soviet Union by studying student activities and intellectual movements in that city.