Neal Pease is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he has taught courses in the modern history of Poland and central Europe since 1983.  He received his Ph.D. from Yale University, and also studied at the University of Kansas, New York University, and two universities in Poland.  He is the author of the books Poland, the United States, and the Stabilization of Europe, 1919-1933 (Oxford, 1986) and Rome's Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914-1939 (Ohio, 2009).