DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Biography

Dylan is a doctoral student in History and a Mellon Cluster Fellow in Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. My research focuses on the history of national minorities in Poland's eastern borderlands between the 1880s and the 1950s. Dylan especially interested in studying the relations between Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Jews in order to understand shifts in nationalism, state policy, and the continuities and changes of imperial rule in this region. Dylan's previous work as a Master's student analyzed how Central and Eastern European émigrés came together in Paris in 1848-49 to advocate for a pan-European form of nationalism that would liberate Eastern European nations from imperialism and create independent nations.

Dylan grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and he earned degrees from both Tulsa Community College and the University of Tulsa, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He then continued his studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he received his MA in History in 2025. Before starting his Ph.D. at Northwestern, he taught English at the University of Białystok as a Fulbright recipient.