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An interview with Professor Marián Mark Stolárik

Summary/Abstract: Prof. Marián Mark Stolárik, Ph.D. (Martin 1943) graduated from the Universities of Ottawa and Minnesota. In the 1970’s and 1980’s he lectured at the Cleveland State University and was the President of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies in Philadelphia. Since 1992 he has been Professor and Chairholder of the Chair in Slovak History and Culture at the University of Ottawa in Canada. Prof. Stolárik specializes in the history of immigration and ethnic groups in North America with emphasis on the Slovak experience. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than sixty articles in scholarly journals, including Slovaks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1880–1976 (1985), Immigration and Urbanization: The Slovak Experience, 1870–1918 (1989) and Where Is My Home? Slovak Immigration to North America (1870–2010) (2012). He edited The Slovak Republic: A Decade of Independence (2004) and The Czech and Slovak Republics: Twenty Years of Independence, 1993–2013 (2016). He served as a consultant and contributor to The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (1980) and to The Encyclopedia of Canada‘s Peoples (1999). Founder of The Slovak Studies Association (1977), he also founded and edited The Slovak Studies Newsletter (1977–1987); Now he is editor of the scholarly annual Slovakia (since 1982) and serves on the Literary Committee of the National Slovak Society which, since 1892, has published the popular Národný kalendár (National Almanach). Prof. Stolárik is married to the former Anne Ivančo and has two sons, Andrej and Matúš, whom he raised in the Slovak language.

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