[aaus-list] H-Ukraine?

[Victor Ostapchuk]

Dear Colleagues,

In regards to the request from the AAUS executive board regarding use of the
list, perhaps it might be time to consider having AAUS list become a member
of H-Net and become H-Ukraine? And thereby becoming a member of the
venerable family of lists such as H-Russia, H-Turk, HABSBURG, and more than
100 others edited by scholars in North America, South America, Europe,
Africa, and the Pacific? The H-Net family is based on the kinds of standards
members have been complaining about as lacking in the AAUS list. Many H-Net
lists also have a book review component. All lists are moderated.

Often H-Net lists are sponsored/owned by organizations such as AAUS. E.g.,
H-Turk, a list that I co-edit belongs to the Turkish Studies Association.
However to be a list member one need only have a bona fide connection to the
field in question and not necessarily a member or the sponsoring
organization.

H-Net has proven to be an excellent, nurturing environment for many fields
in the humanities and social sciences and Ukrainian studies certainly
deserves to have such a platform. For more information see www.h-net.org and
www.h-net.org/lists

Victor Ostapchuk
Associate Professor
Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto

H-Turk Co-editor and Review Editor
v.ostapchuk at utoronto.ca
www.utoronto.ca/nmc/faculty/ostapchukcv.htm
www.h-net.org/~turk
www.h-net.org/reviews