Hilary Lynd is a historian of the Soviet Union and South Africa. She is interested in comparative and transnational histories of ethnicity, nation, and race: how ideologies attribute meaning to human variation, how ideas about difference move across the globe, how states categorize their populations, how human beings live inside the categories they have been assigned, and how organizations transform regimes of difference. Hilary has published articles in Slavic Review and the South African Historical Journal, and her work has received awards from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Southern African Historical Society. Her current book project, Homelands: Together and Apart in the Soviet Union and South Africa, compares and connects histories of ethnoterritorial federations in the Soviet Union and South Africa: how they functioned, how they interacted, and how they collapsed alongside one another in the early 1990s.