Evening Lecture: Dr. Ana Siljak

Lecture Title

"Starting Small: Personalism and the Revival of Humanism"

Speaker Bio

Ana Siljak received her Ph.D. in Russian History from Harvard University. She taught and researched Russian history, literature, and culture at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Toronto, and Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is now an Associate Professor of the Humanities at the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. Ana Siljak’s first book, entitled Angel of Vengeance, on Russia’s first female terrorist, was nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for narrative non-fiction and was named one of the top 100 books of the year by the Globe and Mail. She is currently completing her book on the personalist philosophy of Nikolai Berdyaev. She has contributed essays and book reviews in the Wall Street Journal, Mere Orthodoxy, and the Literary Review of Canada.