Patricia Kennedy Grimsted


Patricia Kennedy Grimsted is a historian focused on the dispossession and restitution of cultural materials during and after World War Two. She is a leading authority on archives in the former Soviet Union and its successor states.
Grimsted is an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and a senior research associate at the Ukrainian Research Institute, both at Harvard University, and an honorary Fellow of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Her books have been called "the best guide" to archives of the former Soviet Union.

Selected works