Expert Bio

Caroline Dunbar is a fall 2020 staff intern for the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. She received her BA in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and Religion from Smith College. Her research interests include the history of Eastern Christianity as a marker of Ukrainian cultural identity, Soviet antireligious policy, church-and-state relations, and historical memory. During her time at Smith, she explored the historical and cultural context of the 2018-19 initiative to establish an autocephalous (self-governing and independent) Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and wrote a departmental honors thesis entitled “Ecclesiastical Reform and Church-and-State Relations in Ukraine (1917-1930).”