On June 25th at a ceremony in the EUSP’s Conference Hall, William Rosenberg was awarded an honorary doctorate. Rosenberg is a professor at the University of Michigan and a member of the EUSP Department of History’s International Advisory Board. After the official ceremony, Rosenberg gave a semi-formal speech about his own path as a historian, the first years of the European University, and about how shortages, violence, and loss have continued to define the history of Russia after the revolution of 1917.