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Karl Qualls

Title VIII Summer Scholar

    Term

    January 2, 2024 — March 1, 2024

    Professional affiliation

    W. Gibbs McKenney Chair in International Education and Professor of History, Dickinson College

    Wilson Center Projects

    "Transforming Childhood in Stalin鈥檚 USSR: Putin鈥檚 Model?"

    Full Biography

    Karl's teaching interests include Russian and German history, the Holocaust, comparative revolutions (political, social, and cultural), dictators, urban history, refugees, childhood, and more. His most recent book Stalin鈥檚 Ni帽os: Educating Spanish Civil War Refugee Children in the Soviet Union, 1937-51 (Toronto, 2020) examines refugee children of the Spanish Civil War who were raised in the Soviet Union and the special boarding schools designed for them and the educational methods used to develop the children into Hispano-Soviets. His previous book From Ruins to Reconstruction: Urban Identity in Soviet Sevastopol after World War II (Cornell, 2009) challenges notions of totalitarianism, investigates the creation of historical myths, and outlines the role of monuments and urban space and identity formation in a city torn between Ukraine and Russia. It is forthcoming in an open-source Ukrainian translation as 袙褨写 褉褍褩薪 写芯 褉械泻芯薪褋褌褉褍泻褑褨褩. 袦褨褋褜泻邪 褨写械薪褌懈褔薪褨褋褌褜 褍 袪邪写 小械胁邪褋褌芯锌芯谢褜 锌褨褋谢褟 袛褉褍谐芯褩 褋胁褨褌芯胁芯褩 胁褨泄薪懈 (Academic Studies Press, 2024). This is his third stint as a Kennan fellow, and both previous monographs have derived in part from that funding. These and other publication also have been supported by grants from the J. Paul Getty Foundation, , Library of Congress, American Council of Learned Societies, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, and the International Research and Exchange Board, among others. 

    Previous Terms

    Kennan Institute Short-Term Grant, 2011. Project title: 鈥淪talin鈥檚 Ni帽os: Soviet Education of Refugee Children from the Spanish Civil War, 1937-51.鈥 

    Assistant Professor, Dickinson College. "Soviet Municipal Reconstruction, 1944-1953." Jul 01, 1999 - Aug 01, 1999. Project Summary: A general analysis of the Soviet Union-wide process of reconstruction and planning both to elucidate Sevastopol's uniqueness, and to provide the groundwork for future studies.