Advisor: Professor Pegelow Kaplan • Nina Walter is a PhD student in Modern European History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her interests span transnational history, Jewish history, nationalism, imperial history, and the history of ideas. For her first Masters thesis (completed in Scotland, at the University of St Andrews), Nina conducted original archival research into the role of Esperanto, an international language created by Ludwik Zamenhof, in Poland ca. 1887-1939. In her second Masters thesis (from the University of Wisconsin-Madison), she discusses Polish contributions to the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, with a particular focus on the Polish-Jewish international lawyer, Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word ‘genocide’.
Historical research into the delicate intersection between the international and the national perfectly combines Nina’s interests in culture, history, and languages. She holds a Qualified Teacher Status from the University of Warsaw and has spent most of her adult life studying, teaching, and traveling extensively between Poland, Britain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.