Katherine Lebow (Ph.D., Columbia) has taught the history of East Central Europe and Poland at the University of Virginia and Newcastle University, among others. Her recent publications include Unfinished Utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish Society, 1949-56 (Cornell, 2013) and The Conscience of the Skin: Interwar Polish Autobiography and Social Rights, Humanity 3:3 (2012), which won the 2013 Aquila Polonica Prize for best English-language article in Polish studies. Currently, she is writing a book about everyman autobiographies in transatlantic space from the Great Depression to the Holocaust.