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Women, the War in Ukraine & Foreign Policy

Join Global Ties Arizona for a special event : A conversation on the impact of the war in Ukraine on women & women in foreign policy.

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Global Ties Arizona is pleased to share a special event of the Worldly Women Collective.
(This event is free and open to all.)

About the Speaker:

Tom Wotka leads the Ukraine (Econ), Belarus, and Moldova Unit within the office of Eastern European Affairs at the Department of State.  Previously, Tom served as the Bureau’s lead on energy security in EUR/ERA.  His overseas work includes tours as a political officer at the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe in Vienna, an economic officer at Embassy Kabul, a political officer at Embassy Phnom Penh, and a vice-consul in USCG Guadalajara.   

Prior to joining the Foreign Service in 2009, Tom worked in the investment banking and insurance industries, and was a Marine Corps infantry officer.  Tom received an MBA from Washington University with a focus in finance, and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Political Science and English from Indiana University.  He is married and has three boys. 

About the Event Moderator:

Laurie Stoff is Teaching Professor, Honors Faculty Fellow, and Assistant Director of the Office of National Scholarship Advisement at Barrett, The Honors College, at Arizona State University, and affiliated faculty in the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies. She holds a PhD in History and specializes in Russian and East European history, women's and gender history, and the history of war and society. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender and war, specifically, Russian women and World War I, and the ways wartime experience transcends conventional conceptions of military activity. She has written a number of works on this subject, including: They Fought for the Motherland: Russia's Women Soldiers in World War I and the Revolution (University Press of Kansas, 2006), recently translated into Russian (Academic Studies Press, 2022) and Russia’s Sisters of Mercy and the Great War: More than Binding Men’s Wounds (University Press of Kansas, 2015) – winner of the Southern Conference for Slavic Studies Best Book Prize and the Southern Historical Association’s award for Best Book in European History. As part of the international editorial team for the multi-volume project Russia's Great War and Revolution, she served as lead editor for the volume Military Affairs in Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–22, Book 1: Military Experiences (Slavica Publishers of Indiana University, 2019).

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