Andrejs Plakans

Andrejs Plakans is professor of European history in the Department of History at Iowa State University. Plakans earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His main interests are European social history, population & family history, the history of European agriculture and Eastern European history, especially of the Baltic. He is the author of numerous articles on Latvian and Baltic history. Andrejs Plakans left his native Latvia as a child in 1944. His family immigrated to the U.S. seven years later.