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Hilary Lynd is a historian of the former Soviet Union and South Africa.听Broadly,听Hilary听studies regimes of difference--how they are made, inhabited, and transformed. In an article for听Slavic Review,听she and Thom Loyd explored evolving understandings of Blackness and Africanness through the lifespan of the Soviet Union. In听Hilary's听prize-winning article in the听South African Historical Journal,听she investigated a secret land deal that preserved key structures of the apartheid-era Zulu homeland into the post-apartheid era. Her current book project compares and connects the histories of ethnic homelands in the Soviet Union and South Africa, culminating in the simultaneous collapse of Soviet nationalities policy and apartheid in the early 1990s.听Hilary听completed her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, and she is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Wits University in Johannesburg.