On Tuesday, April 15th, the Columbus Council on World Affairs will host a Signature Luncheon with two distinguished Ohio State faculty members and Ukraine experts, Dr. Trevor Brown and Dr. Myroslava Mudrak.

Dr. Trevor Brown is the Director of the John Glenn School of Public Affairs. He served as the U.S. Project Manager for the Parliamentary Development Project (PDP), a U.S. Agency for International Development funded organization that provides technical assistance to the Ukrainian parliament. He currently serves as the Associate Project Executive for the PDP. Professor Brown received his Ph.D. in Public Policy and Political Science from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Political Science at Indiana University and a B.A. in Public Policy from Stanford University.

Dr. Myroslava Mudrak, Professor Emeritus of Art History at The Ohio State University, specializes in Russian and Ukrainian avant-garde art of the 1910s and 1920s. A native-born Ohioan, Professor Mudrak was raised in the Ukrainian immigrant community of Cleveland, which shaped her identity as a Ukrainian-American. In her professional life, Professor Mudrak has traveled extensively and regularly to Ukraine since the fall of the USSR. Under the Soviets, in 1977-1978, she conducted research in Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine and Russia, including Odessa, where she first discovered the Ukrainian artistic underground. In 1979, she helped to organize and wrote the catalogue essay for the first international exhibition of contemporary art from Ukraine, a touring exhibition that took place in Munich, London, Paris, and New York. More recently, as a Fulbright scholar based in Kharkiv during 2008-2009, she focused on Ukraine’s cultural renaissance of the 1920s, which was brought down by Stalin during the purges of the 1930s.

More details on the event can be found on the Council's webpage.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Slavic and East European Studies.