BCU’s Will Prigge Presents Paper

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Briar Cliff University’s Will Prigge, Ph.D., will present a paper at the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga., on March 28.  

Prigge's paper titled "Unholy Alliances: Moscow, the Military, and National Communists, 1953-1957" explores effects the Anti-Party Purges of 1957 had on local politics in Latvia.  Primary sources for the work include Latvian archival documents, memoirs and interviews with the participants.

A published author and Fulbright Scholar, Prigge is assistant professor of history at Briar Cliff University, where he teaches Early Modern European History, Modern European History, Russian History, East Asian History, Intellectual History, World History, Global Societies and Modern World History. He holds a Ph.D., in history from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 26 states, Canada, Bosnia and Ecuador.  Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and prepared for professional success in an environment of care and compassion.