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| Michael Hamm is professor of history at Centre College, where he has held the Boles Professorship since 1994. He joined the Centre faculty in 1970.
A scholarly expert on the history of eastern Europe, Hamm has published three books. He is the author of Kiev: A Portrait 1800-1917, published in 1993 by the Princeton University Press. Hamm was the editor and part-author of The City in Russian History (University Press of Kentucky 1976) and The City in Late Imperial Russia (Indiana University Press 1986). He is guest editor of a special issue of Nationalities Papers on Moldova in 1998. He has also published articles on conservation issues in Central America. He is currently writing two articles on Russia's 1905 revolution and a "biography" of early-Soviet Kiev. Hamm has studied and taught overseas, most recently as a lecturer on American politics and culture at Almaty State University and Kazak State University in Kazakhstan during the fall of 1995. During 1976-77, he completed extensive research in the former Soviet Union as a fellow of the International Research and Exchanges Board. Hamm returned to the USSR on IREX and Fulbright grants in 1986. Hamm has taken Centre students on travel-study programs to Eastern Europe on five occasions, and he frequently teaches in the college's alumni seminar program. Recent study-travel has taken him to Albania, Romania, and Tanzania, as well as to Moscow and Kiev. He holds a B.A. from Macalester College and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University.
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