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Ukrainian American anthropologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lydia T. Black (Russian: Лидия Сергеевна Блэк, romanized: Lidiya Sergeyevna Blek; December 16, 1925 – March 12, 2007) was an American anthropologist.[1] She won an American Book Award for Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 And 1804. She also received a Historian of the Year award from the Alaska Historical Society.[2]
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| Born | December 16, 1925 |
| Died | March 12, 2007 (aged 81) |
| Resting place | Kodiak City Cemetery |
| Alma mater | Brandeis University (B.A., M.A., 1971) University of Massachusetts Amherst (Ph.D., 1973) |
| Occupation(s) | Anthropologist, professor, translator |
| Notable work | Russians in Tlingit America |
| Spouse | Igor Black |
She grew up in Kyiv. Her father was executed in 1933, and her mother died of tuberculosis in 1941. During World War II, she was sent to a German forced labor camp. After the war, in Munich, she was a janitor. She was enlisted by the Americans as a translator, at the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration displaced children's camp, since she could speak six languages. She married Igor Black, and immigrated in 1950.[3]
She graduated from Brandeis University with a B.A., and M.A. in 1971, and University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Ph.D. in 1973. She taught at Providence College beginning in 1973. She taught at the University of Alaska Fairbanks from 1984 to 1998.[1] She worked translating and cataloging the Russian archives of Saint Herman's Orthodox Theological Seminary, earning the Cross of St. Herman.[4] In April 2001, she, along with fellow anthropologist and historian and close colleague Richard Pierce, historians Barbara Sweetland Smith, John Middleton-Tidwell, and Viktor Petrov (posthumous), was decorated by the Russian Federation with the Order of Friendship Medal, which they received at the Russian consulate in San Francisco.[5]
She is buried at Kodiak City Cemetery.[6]
She married Igor A. Black (died 1969), an engineer for NASA contractors; they had four daughters.[7]
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