Presentations and Publications

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Publications

Article: “Advertising, Piano Culture, and the Changing Middle Class in Urban Galicia, 1911-21,” The Austrian History Yearbook, (Forthcoming 2025).

Article: “A City at the Front of Change: Technology and Urban Life in L’viv across the First World War,” The Polish Review, 64, no. 3 (2019): 28-47.

Review of An-sky, S. A. 1915 Diary of S. An-sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front. Translated by Polly Zavadivker. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016. The Russian Review 77, no. 3, (July 2018) 490-491.

Conference Presentations

“‘Polski Glob:’ Advertising and Trade Networks in Southern Poland after the First World War,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference, Chicago, IL, November 9-12, 2017.

“Moving Pianos: Advertising, Piano Culture, and the Changing Middle Class in Urban Galicia, 1911-1921,” 4th Annual Polish Studies Conference at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 24-25, 2017.

“A Tale of Two Cities: Advertising in Polish and Ukrainian Newspapers and Everyday Life in L’viv during and after the First World War,” Platforma: Ukrainian Studies Graduate Conference at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, April 22, 2017.

“A City at the Front of Change: Urban Life in Lwów across the First World War,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference, Washington, DC, November 17-20, 2016.

“Looking for Love (?): Galician Marriage Advertisements from 1911-1921,” Central Slavic Conference, St. Louis, MO, November 7-9, 2014.

“The Persistence of Markets: Commerce and Consumers in Multi-Ethnic Galicia, 1911-1921,” All Quiet on the Eastern Front? World War I in Central and Eastern Europe in the Experience of Soldiers, Social Groups and Local Communities, International Conference and Research Workshop, Krakow, Poland, October 23-25, 2014.

“The Triumph of Consumer Culture in Kraków, 1911-1921: Advertising in Głos Narodu and Czas,” Midwest Historians of East Central Europe Workshop, Chicago, IL, April 9-11, 2013.

Invited Talks and Exhibits

“Putin’s War in Ukraine: History and Reality,” Guest Lecture, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, March 3, 2022.

“Normalcy Wanted: Classified Advertisements for Pianos and Marriage during the Great War in Habsburg Galicia,” The Great War at 100, Final Friday Talk, Watkins Museum of History, Lawrence, KS, August 26, 2016. (Photo Above)

Contributed to the collection, “Polish Homefront,” in the exhibit, Eastern Front 1914-1918: An Exploration of the Conflict, The Haricombe Gallery, University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, KS, March 4-September 9, 2016. (Photo Below)

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(Photo Credits: L. Navarrete-Burks)