Jeffrey Burds is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University and an Associate of the Davis Center at Harvard University. Educated at Northwestern University and Yale University, Professor Burds is the recipient of numerous grants and honors from IREX, Fulbright-Hays, the Social Science Research Council, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the National Council, and the Holocaust Educational Foundation. He was also a Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies (2008), and the 2014 Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecturer at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Professor Burds is the author of Holocaust in Rovno: The Massacre at Sosenki Forest, November 1941 (2013) (also translated in Russian, Ukrainian and Polish); “Sexual Violence in Europe in World War II,” published in Politics and Society (2009) (also translated into Ukrainian); Espionage and Nationalism (published in Russian in 2010), and Soviet Informants’ Networks (published in Russian in 2007). Professor Burds is currently revising his monograph: Borderland Wars: The Soviet War to Crush Ukrainian Nationalism, 1944-1948 (EDC: 2021)