University of Texas at El Paso (United States of America)
Dr. Leslie Waters is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at El Paso. She received her PhD from UCLA and specializes in twentieth century Central and Eastern European history with a research focus on moments of historical rupture. Her first book, Borders on the Move: Territorial Change and Ethnic Cleansing in the Hungarian Slovak Borderlands, 1938–1948 was published by Rochester University Press in 2020. Her current project is “Barcelona ’92: The New Europe at the Olympic Games,” which analyzes the role of the 1992 Summer Olympics in integrating post-communist Central and Eastern Europe into liberal international politics and the global capitalist economy.