About the Author

Anna Procyk is Associate Professor of History, Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York. She is currently doing research on the influence of Giuseppe Mazzini in Eastern Europe. Her article on the role of the Polish emigres as disseminators of Mazzini's ideas in Ukraine is due to appear in Harvard Ukrainian Studies. She is also Vice-President of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (NTSh) of America, Inc.