Amizade Faculty Instructors

Name: Tony Novosel, Ph.D.

Faculty Biography: Tony Novosel is a former steelworker who came to the University of Pittsburgh as a freshman at the age of 32. He has a BA in History and Political Science (1989) and an MA (1991) in Soviet and Russian History, and a Ph.D. in Soviet History (2005) focusing on the Bolshevik Theory of the State. He has taught History at the University of Pittsburgh since 1990, served as an Arts and Sciences Academic Advisor between 1994 and 2006 and is now an Academic Advisor for History undergraduates. He first went to Northern Ireland in 1974 at the time of "Sunningdale" (An attempt in 1973-1974 to create a power-sharing government.). Since then he has traveled to Northern Ireland regularly and for the past eleven years has worked with the Business Education Initiative, a "Peace and Reconciliation" program, in Northern Ireland. Recently, he has created a link with Intercomm Belfast, to provide internship opportunities for students to go to Belfast for a month to do "peace and reconciliation" work. He also worked with and managed the website for the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition before and during the talks that led to the "Good Friday Agreement." Currently his research in Northern Ireland focuses on "Progressive Loyalism" in the 1970s, particularly the UVF. He is also studying the Camp Council that formed in Long Kesh in the 1970s before Criminalization.