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Dr. Matusevich Receives a Fulbright Scholar Award to Go to Russia
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
by: Miriam Lyons-Frolow, M.P.A.

Maxim Matusevich, Ph.D

While in St. Petersburg Matusevich will continue archival research for his new book project that looks at the evolution of the perceptions of race and racial difference in the Soviet Union. Matusevich has published extensively on the history of Cold War in Africa as well as the history of political and cultural encounters between Russia/Soviet Union and Africa. He is the author of No Easy Row for a Russian Hoe: Ideology and Pragmatism in Nigerian-Soviet Relations, 1960-1991 (Africa World Press, 2003) and editor of Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa: Three Centuries of Encounters (Africa World Press, 2007). In addition to his appointment at Seton Hall he currently serves as a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

For more information please contact:
Miriam Lyons-Frolow, M.P.A.
(973) 761-9386
maxim.matusevich@shu.edu