DO SOMETHING NOW…. ASK ME HOW: Standing Up for Ukraine

Our new Speaker Series is back for it’s 3rd edition: Standing Up For Ukraine

DO SOMETHING NOW… Ask Me How is an ACTION-oriented speakers’ series sponsored by Kent Dems with the goal of informing and enlisting the aid of attendees who are concerned about our country and asking what they can do NOW to help pull extremes back toward the center.

Featured Guest Speaker:

Matthew D. Pauly, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of History
Michigan State University

Matthew D. Pauly is an Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. He is the author
of Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine as well as numerous journal
articles and book chapters on early Soviet nationalities policy, education, childhood, medicine, and
urban identity in the Russian Empire and Soviet Ukraine. He has won grants from the Swiss National
Science Foundation, the US Fulbright Program, IREX, ACTR/ACCELS, the Shevchenko Scientific Society,
and the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies. Dr. Pauly is currently engaged in the writing of a
research monograph, “City of Children: Juvenile Poverty, Crime, and Salvation in Odesa” and a textbook,
Traversing Europe: Moments in 20th Century History. In the fall of 2024, he was a Visiting Scholar
affiliated with the Chair of East European History and the Graduate School of History at the University of
Basel.