This Week's Guest Speaker to Address the Conflict in the Ukraine

Karina Korostelina (M.A., National Kiev University; Ph.D., Odessa State University; and Doctor of Science in social psychology, Institute of Psychology of the Ukrainian Academy of Science, Kiev) is a full Professor at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University (GMU) and Director of the History, Memory, and Conflict Resolution Program at GMU. She has been a Fulbright New Century Scholar and a Research Fellow at both the Kennan Institute and at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (D.C.)  Dr. Korostelina has received grants from the MacArthur Foundation, Soros Foundation, and the U.S. Institute of Peace, among other foundations.   She is the author of several books, including Constructing the Narratives of Identity and Power:  Self-Imagination in a Young Ukrainian Nation (Lexington Books, 2013). Dr. Korostelina's talk will focus on the current conflict in Ukraine.