Book Discussion: "Odessa Recollected: The Port and the People": In Memory of Professor Patricia Herlihy

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Description

This book discussion panel is in memory of Patricia Herlihy (1930-2018), our dear friend, mentor, colleague, scholar, and longtime member of ASEEES/AAASS and AWSS. A native San Franciscan, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania. She taught at Brown University and Emmanuel College, and was a lifelong associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Watson Institute for International Affairs. The author of Odessa: A History 1794-1914 (Harvard University Press, 1987), The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2002), and Vodka: A Global History (Reaktion Books, 2012), her last book was Odessa Recollected: The Port and the People (Academic Studies Press, 2018). It is a valuable collection of her unique thoughts and papers on the history of the city of Odessa, published just three months after her death. We’ll discuss the book together with her life and work.

Sub Unit

• Geography/Urban Studies 

Chair

• Stella Ghervas, Newcastle U (UK)

Roundtable Members

• Jane Burbank, New York U

• Eileen Mary Kane, Connecticut College

• Erik R. Scott, U of Kansas

• Steven Seegel, U of Northern Colorado

• Christine Diane Worobec, Northern Illinois U

Session Manager

• Aliide Naylor, Independent Scholar