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'''Joshua First''' is an American historian. First is a Croft Associate Professor of History and International Studies and specializes in the history of Russia and Ukraine during the 20th and 21st centuries. Professor First came to Mississippi in 2010 after receiving his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://history.olemiss.edu/joshua-first/|title=Joshua First|date=November 18, 2011|website=Department of History}}</ref>

==Books== *''Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw'' (2014)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2015.1103560|title=Ukrainian cinema: belonging and identity during the Soviet Thaw|first=Elena V.|last=Baraban|date=September 2, 2015|journal=Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema|volume=9|issue=3|pages=222–224|via=Taylor and Francis+NEJM|doi=10.1080/17503132.2015.1103560|s2cid=194231608 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/article/816479|title=First, JoshuaUkrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity During the Soviet Thaw (review)|first=JJ|last=Gurga|date=November 12, 2016|journal=Slavonic and East European Review|volume=94|issue=4|pages=739–741|doi=10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.94.4.0739 |via=Project MUSE|url-access=subscription}}</ref> *''Sergei Paradjanov: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors'' (2016)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/427/article/835373|title=Sergei Paradjanov: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by First Joshua (review)|first=Steven A.|last=Usitalo|date=November 12, 2019|journal=Slavonic and East European Review|volume=97|issue=3|pages=553–555|doi=10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.97.3.0553 |via=Project MUSE|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

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{{DEFAULTSORT:First, Joshua}} Category:21st-century American historians Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:University of Michigan alumni Category:Historians of Russia Category:Historians of the Soviet Union