Glennys Young
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Glennys Young is a professor of history and the chair of the history department at the University of Washington.[1] She also is a professor of Russian studies at the Jackson School of International Studies and is affiliated with University of Washington's Comparative History of Ideas Department.[2][3] From 2016 to 2019, she was the Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History.[1] Her research focuses include Russia, the former Soviet Union, religion in the Soviet Union, Soviet foreign policy, Russian foreign relations, the Cold War, and 20th century Spain.
Young graduated from Nazareth Area High School in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, in 1977. She then attended Lafayette College, and transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in 1981, where she graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's in history. In 1989, she earned her PhD in history from the University of California, Berkeley.
