Maxim Matusevich

Maxim Matusevich is Professor of History at Seton Hall University where he also directs the Russian and East European Studies Program. He is the author of No Easy Row for a Russian Hoe: Ideology and Pragmatism in Nigerian-Soviet Relations, 1960-1991 (Africa World Press) and editor of Africa in Russia, Russia in Africa: Three Centuries of Encounters (Africa World Press). He is writing a new book on the history of African American sojourns in the Soviet Union. Matusevich also writes fiction and occasional journalistic pieces. His short stories and a novella have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Bare Life Review, and other publications.