Biography:

Dr. William received his PhD, along with the Harriman Certificate in East Central European Studies, from Columbia University in 2005. He is currently an assistant professor of history at the City University of New York, and affiliate faculty member at the Harriman Institute for Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies at Columbia. He has previously presented his research on the Lysenko affair at Warsaw University, the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies at Miami University of Ohio, the University of Utrecht, the Max Planck Institute for History of Science in Berlin, and the Goethe Institute in RigaHe has also been invited to give talks at Warsaw University, the Academy of Medicine in Krakow, and the Center for the Cold War at New York University. His dissertation, The New Biology: Lysenkoism in Poland, was published in 2006 by VDM Verlag, and he is currently organizing an international workshop on Lysenkoism which will be held December 4-5, 2009 at Columbia University and the City University of New York. His current project is a book on response to Lysenko in the U.S. and Great Britain.

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