Dr. Richards Plavnieks is a historian of 20th century totalitarianism. His book is about the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Latvia and its political reverberations through the Cold War and has been published in Latvian translation.
He has been teaching at the college level since 2013 and at Florida Southern College, where he is Associate Professor, since 2018. As all scholars should be, Dr. Plavnieks is committed to the discovery, understanding, and widest possible communication of knowledge of the past in order to understand the present and maintain the hope of a better future.
Richards is a regular Incubate Debate judge in the USA.