M. MARK STOLARIK, Ph.D. (Minnesota), is Professor of History and holder of the Chair in Slovak History and Culture at the University of Ottawa. From 1979 to 1991 he was President and CEO of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies in Philadelphia, and Director of its press. 

Stolarik is a specialist in the history of immigration and ethnic groups in North America, with emphasis on the Slovak experience. He has published seven books and over 60 articles in the field, including Slovaks inBethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1880-1976 (1985) and Immigration and Urbanization: The Slovak Experience, 1870-1918 (1989). He was a consultant and contributor to the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (1980) and to the Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples (1999).

In the last twenty years Stolarik has edited four newsletters: New Dimensions (The Balch Institute), the Immigration History Society Newsletter, the Newsletter of the Slovak Studies Association, and the Newsletter of the Chair in Slovak History and Culture. In addition to serving on the editorial boards of the Journal ofAmerican Ethnic History and the Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, Stolarik also edits the annual Slovakia. 

In the last 30 years Stolarik has collected and helped to preserve Slovak library, archival, and museum materials for the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota (1967-1972), for the National Museum of Man in Ottawa (1977-78), and for the Balch Institute in Philadelphia. He recently established a Slovak Archives at the University of Ottawa. At the moment Stolarik is researching and writing the book: Where is my Home? A Slovak Odyssey in the 20th Century. 

At the University of Ottawa Stolarik teaches undergraduate courses in Slovak history, the history of Central Europe and the history of Immigration to North America. He also presents graduate seminars in the history of Immigration to North America.