Professional Affiliation

Assistant Professor of History and Director of Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies Program, Stetson University

Expert Bio

Mayhill Fowler teaches and researches the cultural history of Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. She focuses in particular on the intersection of artists, states, and publics, and how different kinds of state systems shape creative production.

She translates from various Slavic languages, enjoys side projects on Yiddish theater and 19th century itinerant theater artists, and travels to Ukraine every summer. She has taught at Princeton University, the Ukrainian Catholic University and the University of Toronto, as well as at a summer school of Jewish history in Lviv, Ukraine. She has written for New Eastern Europe and CNN and argues for the importance of culture and the arts in understanding societies.

Before coming to Stetson University, Fowler held postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard University and the University of Toronto. Fowler is also a former professional actress and even performed once in Florida in 2003.