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Richard Blanke received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970 and spent the next forty-five years teaching and researching Modern European History at the University of º£½ÇÉçÇø, with primary responsibility for Central and Eastern Europe. He regularly taught the second half of the European Civilization survey (HTY 106) and two-semester sequences in 20th Century Europe (HTY 409-410), Russia (HTY 423-424), and Germany (HTY 425-426). His principal research has been on the nature and impact of ethnic nationalism on a part of the world where its impact has been greatest, with particular attention to the long-toxic German-Polish relationship, the subject of several books: Prussian Poland in the German Empire, 1871-1900 (1981), Orphans of Versailles: Germans in Western Poland, 1918-1939 (1993), and Polish-speaking Germans? Language and National Identity among the Masurians (2001).