Dr. Olavi Arens

Dr. Olavi Arens (PhD, Columbia University) is Professor of History at the Armstrong Campus of Georgia Southern University. He is a native of Estonia. Prof. Arens did his undergraduate work at Harvard University and his graduate studies at Columbia University where he earned a Ph.D. in Modern East European History and a Russian Institute Certificate. He has served as the president of the Southern Conference of Slavic Studies and as the AABS representative on the Council of Executive Officers of the American Council of Learned Societies and is currently the Academic Executive Director of the AABS. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on, among other topics, American relations with the Baltic States, the Brest-Litovsk treaty, and the Russian Revolution in Estonia. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Tallinn University in Estonia.