Professor Uldricks, a native of Detroit, was educated at Valparaiso University and at the University of California, Berkeley (A.B. in History). He did graduate work in Russian history at Indiana University (M.A. & Ph.D.). He has previously taught at the University of California, Riverside (tenured Associate Professor) and the University of North Carolina, Asheville (Professor Emeritus). At UNLV, he offers courses on the Second World War, Russia & the West, 20th Century Europe, and World History II.

Dr. Uldricks’ first book, Diplomacy and Ideology: The Origins of Soviet Foreign Relations (London: Sage), explored Soviet thinking about the surrounding (and hostile) “imperialist” world and the founding and development of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (Narkomindel). It was well reviewed and adopted as a course text at Columbia, Georgetown, UC Berkeley, Simon Frasier, and other schools. He has written extensively on Soviet international relations during the interwar period. The distinguished historian of international relations, Jon Jacobson, identified one of Dr. Uldricks’ journal articles as among the five major contributions to the field that changed thinking about Soviet foreign policy [When the Soviet Union Entered World Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), p. 2]. Another well-known scholar in Soviet studies referred to him as “a leading American authority” on Soviet foreign policy [Kevin McDermott, Stalin (New York: Palgrave, 2006)]. Four of his journal articles and invited chapters have been reprinted in topical collections. He has presented research at invitational conferences in France, Israel, Russia, and Canada. He gave papers and served on panels at 61 conferences of the American Historical Association, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, and the Florida Conference of Historians. His research has been supported by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, IREX, and by the universities where he has taught.

Dr. Uldricks is a past President of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies and he was Book Review Editor for H-Russia. He is a member of the American Historical Association and of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Dr. Uldricks’ newest work, The Second World War: A Global History (Rowman & Littlefield, in press) is a global analysis of WW II, written for students and general readers. This book is a historiographically up-to-date examination of the origins, course, and results of the conflict that pays special attention to debates among historians over key aspects of the war. Beyond a military history of WW II, this work discusses the wartime experiences of ordinary people, the role of women on the home front and in combat, the civil wars and anti-imperialist national liberation struggles that underlay the war in many places, the politics of remembering the war, and its ecological impact.