CURRICULUM VITAE
revised April 2016
Steven Seegel
Associate Professor of History
Department of History
University of Northern Colorado, Box 116
Greeley, Colorado 80639 USA
Office: 970-351-2082
Email (preferred): [email protected]
EMPLOYMENT
2012-present
2008-2012
2008
2008
2007-2008
2006-2007
2005-2006
2005-present
1995-1999
EDUCATION
Ph.D., 2006
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of
Northern Colorado
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of
Northern Colorado
Director, Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, Harvard Ukrainian
Research Institute (HURI), Harvard University (summer 2008)
Guest Curator, “Visualizing Ukraine: A Western Cartographic
Perspective,” Pusey Library Exhibit, Harvard University (springsummer 2008)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political
Science, Worcester State College
Eugene and Daymel Shklar Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard
Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Lecturer, Department of History, University of TennesseeKnoxville
Translator (Russian and Polish) of nearly 300 source entries,
Geoffrey Megargee and Martin C. Dean, eds., The United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and
Ghettos, 1933-1945, 7 vols., United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum and Indiana University Press (2009 and 2011)
Library Assistant and Database Designer, Special Collections
Department of Genealogy, Local History and Rare Books, Buffalo
and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, New York
Brown University, Department of History
Dissertation: “Blueprinting Modernity: Nation-State Cartography
and Intellectual Ordering in Russia’s European Empire, Ukraine,
and Former Poland-Lithuania, 1795-1917”
A.M., 2000
Brown University, Department of History
B.A., 1999
Canisius College, History and English (double major), All-College
Honors Program, summa cum laude
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Languages:
Polish and Russian (excellent); German, French, Swedish, and
Ukrainian (proficient); Belarusian, Czech, Hungarian, Latin,
Lithuanian, Italian, Spanish, most Slavic Languages (reading
knowledge)
PUBLISHED WORKS
Books:
Map Wars: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the
Making of East Central Europe (under contract, University of
Chicago Press, expected 2017)
Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age
of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
• Finalist for the Joseph Rothschild Prize (2013), Association for
the Study of Nationalities (ASN)
• Reviewed in the Austrian History Yearbook, American
Historical Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Cartographica,
Choice, Foreign Affairs, H-Net, Imago Mundi, Isis, the Journal
of Historical Geography, Nationalities Papers, Polish Review,
Slavic Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and other
venues
Ukraine under Western Eyes (Harvard University Press,
2011/2013)
• Reissued with a DVD of nearly 100 maps in November 2013
• Presented at Harvard to the Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S.,
Olexander Motsyk, in September 2013
Peer-Reviewed
Articles:
(11 in total)
“Geography, Identity, Nationality: Mental Maps of Contested
Russian-Ukrainian Borderlands,” Nationalities Papers: The
Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity (submitted in 2015 and
accepted, forthcoming 2016)
“Mediating the Antemurale Myth in Ostmitteleuropa: Religion and
Politics in Modern Geographers’ Entangled Lives and Maps,”
Chapter-length article in Bulwarks in a Religious Triangle:
Borderland Myths in East European Multiconfessional Societies in
the Age of Nationalism, eds. Heidi Hein-Kircher and Liliya
Berezhnaya (Marburg: Herder-Institut Verlag, 2016)
(submitted in 2015 and accepted, forthcoming 2016)
“From Explorer to Expert: Tensions of Gender, Space, and
Geographical Knowledge in the Polish Transnational Case of
Eugeniusz Romer,” in Osteuropaexperten und Politik im 20.
Jahrhundert eds. Jan Kusber, Jörn Happel, Heidi-Hein Kircher, in
Osteuropa Journal special issue (submitted in 2015 and accepted,
forthcoming 2016)
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“Remapping the Geo-Body: Transnational Dimensions of Stepan
Rudnyts'kyi and His Contemporaries,” in Quo Vadis Ukrainian
History? ed. Serhii Plokhii, in Harvard Ukrainian Studies (invited,
submitted in 2014, under review)
Book Symposium: Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian
Cartography in the Age of Empire (University of Chicago Press,
2012), in Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and
Ethnicity 42:2 (Spring 2014), 1-10.
“Cartography and Nation-Building Dynamics: The Russian
Empire and Former Poland-Lithuania,” in Michael Branch, ed.,
Defining Self: Essays on Emergent Identities in Russia,
Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries (Helsinki: Finnish Literature
Society, 2009), 404-414.
“Prizm Boplana” (Ukrainian), Ahora no. 5 (Kyiv, Ukraine:
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 2007), 18-28.
“Metageography Unbound? Late 19th-Century European
Borderland Cartography and the Geopolitical Construction of
Space,” Ab Imperio 2/2007, 179-208.
“Beauplan’s Prism: Represented Contact Zones and NineteenthCentury Mapping Practices in Ukraine,” in Blair A. Ruble and
Dominique Arel, eds., Rebounding Identities: The Politics of
Identity in Russia and Ukraine (Baltimore and Washington, D.C.:
The Johns Hopkins University Press and Kennan Institute for
Advanced Russian Studies, 2006), 151-81.
“Cartography and the Collected Nation in Joachim Lelewel’s
Geographical Imagination: A Revised Approach to Intelligentsia,”
in Fiona Björling and Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath, eds., Values
Words and Deeds, vol. 22 (Lund, Sweden: Slavica Lundensia,
2006), 23-31.
“Maps of Kitschy Atlantis: The Boundaries of Galician
Cartography and Mitteleuropäische Idenitäten,” in Emil Brix and
Jacek Purchla, eds., Galicia - A Historic Region in Europe
(Kraków, Przemyśl, L’viv, Wien: International Cultural Centre,
2001), 15-29.
Encyclopedia
Entries:
(3 in total)
“Military Maps and Mapping by Russia,” in The History of
Cartography: Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, vol. 5,
eds. Claudia Asch and Roger Kain (2,000-word entry solicited,
submitted in 2015, accepted, expected U of Chicago Press, 2019)
“Russian Geographical Society,” in The History of Cartography:
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Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, vol. 5, eds. Claudia Asch
and Roger Kain (2,000-word entry solicited, submitted in 2015,
accepted, expected University of Chicago Press, 2019)
“The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania,” in The History of
Cartography: Cartography in the European Enlightenment, vol. 4,
eds. Matthew Edney and Mary Pedley (1,000-word entry solicited,
submitted in 2009, accepted, expected University of Chicago Press
2016)
Book Reviews:
(17 in total)
Malte Rolf, Imperiale Herrschaft im Weichselland: Das
Königreich Polen im Russischen Imperium, 1864-1915
(Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2015), Osteuropa (submitted in 2015,
expected fall 2016)
Christian Raffensperger, Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in the
Medieval World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012),
Canadian-American Slavic Studies (submitted in 2014, expected
2016)
Jason D. Hansen, Mapping the Germans: Statistical Science,
Cartography, and the Visualization of the German Nation, 18481914 (Oxford: Oxford Press, 2015), H-Net, X-posted on HNationalism, October 2015.
https://www.academia.edu/16580090/Review_HNet_online_of_Jason_D._Hansen_Mapping_the_Germans_Statisti
cal_Science_Cartography_and_the_Visualization_of_the_German
_Nation_18481914_Oxford_Oxford_University_Press_2015_posted_for_HNationalism_8_October_2015
Istvan Hargittai, Buried Glory: Portraits of Soviet Scientists
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), The Historian 77:3 (Fall
2015): 608-610.
(AHR Featured Reviews) Willard Sunderland, The Baron’s
Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014), The American Historical
Review 120:1 (February 2015): 181-183.
Kate Brown, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the
Great American and Soviet Plutonium Disasters (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2013), Nationalities Papers: The Journal of
Nationalism and Ethnicity 40:2 (July 2014).
Marcin Zaremba, Im nationalen Gewande: Strategien
kommunistischer Herrschaftslegitimation in Polen 1944-1980
(Osnabrück: Fibre, 2011), Pol-Int (online platform for
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Interdisciplinary Polish Studies), posted June 6, 2014.
https://www.academia.edu/7316412/Review_of_Marcin_Zaremba
_Im_nationalen_Gewande_Strategien_kommunistischer_Herrschaf
tslegitimation_in_Polen_1944-1980_Osnabrueck_Fibre_2011_PolInt_online_platform_for_Interdisciplinary_Polish_Studies_posted_
June_6_2014
Marko Lamberg, Marko Hakanen, and Janne Haikari, eds.,
Physical and Cultural Space in Pre-industrial Europe:
Methodological Approaches to Spatiality (Lund, Sweden: Nordic
Academic Press. 2011), The American Historical Review 118:2
(April 2013): 474-475.
Paulus Adelsgruber, Laurie Cohen, and Börries Kuzmany, eds.,
Getrennt und doch Verbunden: Grenzstädte zwischen Österreich
und Russland 1772-1918 (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2011), Austrian
History Yearbook 44 (April 2013): 303-304.
Paula van Gestle-van het Ship, ed. et al., Maps in Books of Russia
and Poland Published in the Netherlands to 1800. Utrecht Studies
in the History of Cartography, no. 13 (Houten: HES & De Graaf,
2011), Imago Mundi 64:2 (2012).
Jörn Happel, Christophe von Werdt, and Mira Jovanović, eds.,
Osteuropa kartiert – Mapping Eastern Europe (Münster: LIT
Verlag, 2010), Slavic Review 71:1 (Spring 2012).
Book Symposium Discussion on Omer Bartov’s Erased:
Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), Nationalities
Papers 38:2 (Mar. 2010): 291-305.
Larissa M.L. Zaleska Onyshkevych and Maria G. Rewakowicz,
eds., Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe
(Armonk: M.E. Sharpe; The Shevchenko Scientific Society, 2009),
Nationalities Papers 38:1 (Jan. 2010).
“Long Shadows and the Polish City” (Aug. 2009), Hanna
Kozińska-Witt. Krakau in Warschaus langem Schatten:
Konkurrenzkämpfe in der polnischen Städtelandschaft 1900-1939
(Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008), H-Urban and H-Habsburg.
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23994
Darius Staliūnas, Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of
Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 2007), Ab Imperio 2/2008.
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Vytautas Petronis, Constructing Lithuania: Ethnic Mapping in
Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800-1914 (Stockholm: Stockholm University,
2007), Ab Imperio 1/2008.
Celeste Ray, ed., Ethnicity: The New Encyclopedia of Southern
Culture, vol. 6 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina
Press, 2007), Journal of Popular Culture 41:2 (April 2008).
Peer Reviews and
Consultations:
(16 in total,
some many times)
Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in
Post-Soviet Space (2015), BBC (Mapping the World), Bedford/St.
Martin’s Press; Berghahn Books, Boren Scholarships, Harvard
Ukrainian Studies (2015), Journal of Historical Geography,
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Library of
Congress, The Middle Ground: An Online Journal for World
Historians, Nationalities Papers, Pearson Higher Education,
Problems in Post-Communism, University of Pittsburgh Press
(2015), Wired Magazine (2015), Yale University Press
INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
(14 in total)
April 2015
Invited Short-Course (four Lectures), “Maps, Geopolitics, Nationalism:
Russian/Soviet Foreign Policy and East Central Europe” (for 26 Czech
and international undergraduate and graduate students), Prague University
of Economics, Dept. of Economic History, Prague, Czech Republic
March 2015
Invited Public Lecture, “Ethnic Mapping as Spatial Ideology: Exploring
Common Patterns in Past and Present Cartographic Representations of
Ukraine,” for the Urban Seminar Series, Center for Urban History of East
Central Europe, L’viv, Ukraine
March 2015
Invited Public Lecture, “Map Wars of Darkness and Color: The
Nationalization of Transnational East European Geographers during the
Long Great War,” for the “Global and Individual Experiences of World
War I, 1914 … ” Lecture Series, Center for Urban History of East Central
Europe, L’viv, Ukraine
March 2015
Invited Public Lecture, “A Short Overview of Geography Education in the
United States,” Ivan Franko National University, Dept. of Geography,
L’viv, Ukraine
May 2014
Invited Public Lecture and Master’s Seminar Presentation, “Beyond Map
Literalism: Reframing the Transnational Lives and Deaths of Modern
Geographers in East Central Europe,” Herder Institute for Historical
Research on East Central Europe, Marburg, Germany.
April 2014
Invited Public Lecture, “Speaking in Maps: Transnational Lives and
Deaths of Modern Eastern Europe’s Geographers,” Pomona College,
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Claremont, California.
Nov. 2013
Invited Public Lecture, “Repatriated Mappers: Lives of Geographers in
Revisionist East Central Europe and Soviet Frontier Spaces of the 1920s”,
Paper for the “Socialism in Contexts” Workshop, University of California,
San Diego.
Nov. 2013
Invited Public Lecture, “Poland,” Michener Library (UNC)
Oct. 2013
Invited Public Lecture: “Speaking in Maps: Toward a Spatial
Prosopography of East Central Europe’s Modern Geographers,” Inaugural
SEE NEXT Seminar (Seminar in East European and Northern Eurasia XTalk), University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences
Mar. 2013
Invited Public Lecture: “Biographies of Counter-Revolution? Spatially
Rethinking East Central Europe’s Geographer-Scientists of the 1920s,”
Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Nov. 2011
Invited Public Lecture (two guest lectures): “Mapping Europe’s East:
Imperial and National Cartography to the Paris Peace Conference of
1919,” and “Men, Money, and Resources: Isaiah Bowman’s Biography
between U.S. Imperialism and East Central European Nationalism,”
Uppsala University (Sweden), Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Russian
and Eurasian Studies (UCRS), Uppsala University Forum on Peace,
Democracy and Justice.
Oct. 2008
Invited Public Lecture: “European Visions of Ukraine: Introducing The
Bohdan and Neonila Ucrainica Map Collection,” Ukrainian Museum, New
York City.
Apr. 2008
Invited Public Lecture: “Cartography and Ukrainian Geopolitics: The
Krawciw Ucrainica Map Collection and the European Mapping of
Ukraine,” The Bohdan Krawciw Memorial Lecture, Harvard University.
Oct. 2002
Invited Public Lecture: “Historiography and Cartography” (in Russian),
Institute for the History of the Natural Sciences and Technology, Russian
Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(42 in total, juried and non-juried)
Sept. 2016
(juried)
“Secret Lives of Maps: Decoding Religion and Geopolitics in Modern
Antemurale Discourses,” Invited Paper Presenter for Panel, “Myths of
Threat, Myths of Security: Representations of Protective Walls in Eastern
Europe,” 2016 Historikertag (Annual Historians’ Conference), Hamburg,
Germany
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Mar. 2016
(juried)
“Ethnic Maps as Geospatial Battleground: Cartography, Identity Politics,
and the History of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict,” Invited Paper for
“From Phantom Maps to Real Boundaries: Comparison of the Post-Soviet
and Post-Yugoslav Context” (Blankensee-Colloquium 2006), HumboldtUniversity, Berlin
Nov. 2015
(juried)
Roundtable Co-organizer and Presenter, "A Geographical Turn? New
Uses of Geography in the Writing of Russian and East European History,"
and Panel Chair, “Between Epistemology and Rationalization: Racial
Approaches to Society in Central Europe 1916–1945,” Association for the
Advancement of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Feb. 2015
(juried)
Invited Conference Paper Presenter, “From Explorer to Expert: Gender,
Space, and Geographical Knowledge in the Polish Interwar Case of
Eugeniusz Romer,” for the “East European Experts and Politics in the 20th
Century” Conference, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East
Central Europe, Marburg, Germany.
Nov. 2014
(juried)
Conference Paper Presenter, Roundtable Panel Organizer, and Panel
Discussant -- Paper: “Ethnoschematization between Soviet Space and East
Central Europe: Ideology, Practices, Fantasies” for the Roundtable Panel,
“Maps as Imperial/National Praxis: Rethinking Territoriality in East
European Borderlands”; Panel Discussant: Representing Transylvania:
Maps, Geographic Descriptions and Cultural Constructions of Space, 18th
to 21st Centuries,” Association for the Advancement of Slavic, East
European, and Eurasian Studies, San Antonio, Texas.
June 2014
(juried)
Conference Paper Presenter: “Mapping Old Poland-Lithuania: Reassessing
the Legacy of Loss and Erasure,” for the Panel, “Crossing Borders,” Fifth
International Polish Conference, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
May 2014
(juried)
Invited Paper Presenter and Conference Participant: “Speaking in Maps:
Spatially Rethinking East Central Europe’s National Geographers,” for
“Bulwarks in a Religious Triangle: Borderland Myths in East European
Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism,” University of
Münster, Münster, Germany.
Nov. 2013
(juried)
Paper Presenter and Panel Organizer: “Epistemologies of Wholeness:
Comparing Revisionist Strategies among German, Polish, and Hungarian
International Geographers of the 1920s,” for the Panel, “Geography as
Deep Psychology: Space, Gender, and Imagined National Traumas in
Entangled Interwar East Central Europe,” and Discussant, “Geoimaginaries and Politics of Space: East Central Europe in the 20th
Century,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies,
Boston, MA.
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Nov. 2013
(juried)
Invited Paper Presenter and Conference Participant: “Remapping the Geobody: Stepan Rudnyts’kyi and His Transnational Contemporaries,” for
Quo Vadis Ukrainian History? Assessing the State of the Field,” Harvard
Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI), Harvard University.
Oct. 2013
(juried)
Panel Chair: “Germany Turns Southeast: German Encounters with
Yugoslavia and Romania in the 20th Century,” German Studies
Association, Denver, Colorado.
May 2013
(juried)
Invited Conference and Workshop Participant, “Late Imperial
Epistemologies: A Eurasian Studies Workshop,” Columbia University.
Apr. 2013
(juried)
Special Book Panel on Mapping Europe’s Borderlands, Association for
the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University.
Nov. 2012
(juried)
Invited Paper Presenter and Conference Participant: “Geographic
Networks and Entangled ‘Phantom Borders’: Eugeniusz Romer’s Rivals
and the Political Cartography of Poland’s Second Republic,” at
“Phantomgrenzen in Ostmitteleuropa (conference),” for “Boundaries,
Networks: Borders between the Former Partitions and Political Culture in
the Polish Second Republic” Zentrum für Historische Forschung der
polnischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.
Apr. 2012
(juried)
Panel Discussant: “Ethnonational Identity Construction in the
Austrian and Russian Empires,” Association for the Study of Nationalities,
Columbia University.
Feb. 2012
(juried)
Invited Workshop Participant: “Russian Cartography beyond the Spatial
Turn: Past and Present Concerns,” Wrangling Space into Russian Imperial
History: Agendas for Digital and Collaborative Scholarship, Harvard
University, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Apr. 2011
(juried)
Special Book Panel Discussant, Monika K. Baár, Historians and
Nationalism: East-Central Europe in the 19th Century (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2010), Association for the Study of Nationalities,
Columbia University.
Nov. 2010
(juried)
Roundtable Chair, “Imaginative Geographies of the Russian and Soviet
Empire,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Los
Angeles.
Sept. 2010
Paper Presenter: “Rootsearching Gone Grounded: East European
Ethnonationalism and the American Empire of Genealogy,” UNCO
History Faculty Seminar Research Presentation.
Apr. 2010
(juried)
Paper Presenter: “Nationalities or National Self-Determination? Central
European State-building Contexts for the Cartography of Poland and
Ukraine in 1918-1919,” Association for the Study of Nationalities,
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Columbia University.
Nov. 2009
(juried)
Paper Presenter: "Genealogie als Beruf: The Role of Internet Genealogy in
Re-Rooting East European Narratives of Victimization," American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston.
Apr. 2009
(juried)
Panel Chair and Discussant: “American Military History: Propaganda,
Representation, and Outcomes,” Phi Alpha Theta Annual Conference,
University of Wyoming.
Mar. 2009
(juried)
Paper Presenter for Roundtable Panel: “Totalitarianism’s ‘Inner History’
and Beyond,” The Publicly Engaged Intellectual: Abbott Gleason
Responds to the Cold War,” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies,
University of Virginia.
Sept. 2008
(juried)
Paper Presenter and Invited Conference Participant: “Mental Maps of
Empire: Russia’s Europeanizing Cartography, 1863-1917,” Imperium inter
pares: Reflections on Imperial Identity and Interimperial Transfers in the
Russian Empire, 1700-1917, German Historical Institute in Moscow,
Russia.
Apr. 2008
(juried)
Paper Presenter: “‘People of Whom We Know Nothing’ – Maps and
History, A Conversation,” New England Historical Association,
Northeastern University.
Apr. 2008
(juried)
Panel Chair: “Special Panel on Omer Bartov’s Erased: Vanishing Traces
of Jewish Life in Present-Day Galicia,” Association for the Study of
Nationalities, Columbia University.
Nov. 2007
(juried)
Paper Presenter: “What Are Maps Used for Anyway? Bohdan Krawciw’s
Geopolitics and the Cartography of Ukraine,” Ukraine and the Reusable
Past, Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans.
Nov. 2007
(juried)
Panel Chair, “The Ukrainian Question in the Russian Empire in the
Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Century,” Association for
the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans.
Oct. 2007
(juried)
Roundtable Panel Organizer: “Recent Tales from the Job Market: Myths
and Realities,” New England Historical Association.
Sept. 2007
(juried)
Paper Presenter and Invited Participant, “The Political Construction of
Nationalitäten in Late 19th-century East-Central European Maps: The
Why and the Where,” Leipziger Kreis, Political Controversies on Maps,
University of Leipzig, Germany.
Apr. 2007
(juried)
Paper Presenter and Invited Conference Participant: “Metageography
Unbound? Late 19th-Century European Borderland Cartography and the
Geopolitical Construction of Space,” Locating Eurasia in Postsocialist
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Studies: The Geopolitics of Naming, SOYUZ Conference, Princeton
University.
Apr. 2007
(juried)
Panel Discussant: “Where Photography meets Social Science: Exploring
the World of Ukraine's Russia Border,” Association for the Study of
Nationalities, Columbia University.
Nov. 2006
(juried)
Paper Presenter and Panel Organizer: “Romer Emperors? Old PolandLithuania in the Geopolitical Imaginations of Eugeniusz Romer and
Mykolas Romeris,” Family History, Family Feuds?: Borderland Elective
Affinities and the Empire/Nation in East-Central Europe, Association for
the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington D.C.
June 2006
(juried)
Paper Presenter and Invited Conference Participant: “Cartography and
Nation-Building Dynamics between the Russian Empire and PolandLithuania,” Research and Identity: Non-Russian Peoples in the Russian
Empire, Kymenlaakso Summer University, Kouvola, Finland.
Mar. 2006
(juried)
Paper Presenter and Invited Conference Participant: “Founding Maps:
Early 19th-century Cartography and the Geopolitical Placement of Russia
and Poland,” Space, Politics and Place in Modern Russian History, Brown
University.
Nov. 2005
(juried)
Paper Presenter and Panel Organizer: “Borderland Map Spaces: Late 19thcentury Cartographic Modernity in Former Poland-Lithuania from
Imperial Vienna to St. Petersburg,” Local Places and Regional Spaces,
1759-1937, Assoc. for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City.
Nov. 2005
(juried)
Panel Chair: “Popular Science and Stalinist Repression: Technology,
Culture, and Obshchestvennost’”American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City.
July 2005
(juried)
Paper Presenter (Harley Fellowship Award Recipient): “Some Parallels in
Nineteenth-Century Habsburg and Russian Imperial Cartography vis-à-vis
Poland-Lithuania,” International Conference in the History of
Cartography, Budapest, Hungary.
Mar. 2004
(juried)
Paper Presenter, “Imperial Russian Cartography and the National
Periphery: The Territories of the Partitioned Rzeczpospolita, 1795-1914,”
British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies, Cambridge,
U.K.
Mar. 2003
(juried)
Paper Presenter and Invited Conference Participant: “Representing
Ukraine in Maps,” Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies,
Washington, D.C.
Apr. 2002
(juried)
Paper Presenter and Graduate Conference Co-Organizer: “Orwell,
Totalitarianism, and the Russian Connection,” Third Northeastern Slavic
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Studies Conference, Brown University.
Mar. 2002
(juried)
Paper Presenter and Invited Conference Participant: “Virtual War, Virtual
Journalism? Russian Media Responses to ‘Balkan’ Crises Since 1877,”
Kokkalis Program, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,
Harvard University.
July 2001:
(juried)
Paper Presenter and Invited Conference Participant: “An Outline of the
History of 19th-century Polish Cartography,” Galicia: A Multicultural
Region in Europe, International Cultural Centre, Kraków, Poland.
COURSES TAUGHT (includes graduate-level independent studies)
Intro Surveys:
Western Civilization to 1689 (Sp 10)
Western Civilization to 1740 (Fa 05)
Western Civilization, 1689-present (Sp 09, Sp 11, Fa 11, Sp 12, Fa 12, Sp 13, Fa 13, Sp
14, Fa 15, Sp 16, Su 16)
Western Civilization, 1740-present (Sp 06)
World Civilizations II (Fa 06)
World Civilizations III (Sp 07)
World History (Fa 10)
First-Year Seminar: Maps and History (Sp 07)
Teaching World History (Fa 10)
Upper-Division Electives:
Russia, Europe, and the Idea of Empire (Su 06)
Russian Civilization (Fa 06, Fa 08, Fa 09, Su 10, Su 11)
Russian Cultural History (Fa 15, Su 16)
Imperial Russia, 1700-1917 (Fa 08, Sp 10, Fa 11, Fa 12, Fa 13, Fa 15)
20th Century Russia (Sp 07, Sp 09, Fa 10, Sp 12, Sp 13, Sp 14, Sp 16)
European Intellectual History (Sp 10, Fa 11, Sp 12, Fa 13)
History of Modern Europe, 1750-1914 (Fa 05, Sp 06)
20th Century Europe I (Fa 06)
20th Century Europe II (Sp 07)
Totalitarianism in Modern Europe (Sp 11, Sp 12)
Advanced Courses:
Space, Place, and Identity (Senior Seminar) (Fa 09, Fa 10, Sp 12, Sp 14)
Empires, Nations, Borders (Fa 07, Fa 09, Sp 11, Sp 13, Sp 16)
European Women since 1700 (Sp 10)
Colonial Knowledge, Postcolonialism and After (Sp 12)
Nationalism and Transnationalism (Sp 12)
Modern Ukrainian History (Sp 13)
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AWARDS AND GRANTS
Mar. 2015
Visiting Senior Scholar (Residence Award), Centre for Urban History
of East Central Europe, L’viv, Ukraine.
Jan.-Feb.
2015
Visiting Senior Fellow, Leibnitz Graduate School, Herder Institute for
Historical Research on East Central Europe, Marburg, Germany
Mar. 2014
College of Humanities and Social Sciences Scholar Award (for the 20132014 Academic Year), University of Northern Colorado, Greeley.
Jan. 2014
Provost Award for Travel (UNC), “East European Experts and 20th
Century Politics,” to the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East
Central Europe, Marburg, Germany
Jun.-July
2013
Title VIII Award, U.S. State Department, Hungarian Language Study,
SWSEEL Program, Indiana University
Jun.-Aug.
2012
Provost Award for Travel (UNC), Faculty Research and Publications
Board, to Leipzig, Kraków, and Budapest
July 2011
New Project Research Award, Faculty Research and Publications Board,
to Johns Hopkins University
Feb. 2011
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University,
Information Studies fellowship finalist (out of 150 international
applicants)
Fall 2010
Favorite Professor Award, UNCO Mortar Board Women’s Honor
Society
July 2010
McColl Research Fellow-in-Residence, American Geographical
Society Library (to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
June-Aug.
2010
U.S. State Department Title VIII Grant, to University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Mar. 2010
Provost Award, “Icons of Power,” Faculty Research and Publications
Board (FRPB), UNCO
July 2005
J.B. Harley Fellowship in the History of Cartography, Budapest, Hungary
2003-2004
David L. Boren Scholarship for Dissertation Research, National Security
and Education Program
2002-2003
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship
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June-Aug.
2002
FLAS Fellowship, Baltic Studies Institute, University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign
June-Aug.
2001
Kościuszko Foundation Graduate Studies Fellowship,
Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
1999-2004
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education
1999-2000
Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies (declined),
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
1995-1999
Full Scholarship, All-College Honors Program, Canisius College, Buffalo,
New York
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
• International Advisory Board Member, Summer Workshop in Slavic, East
European, and Eurasian Languages (SWSEEL), Indiana University, 2015-present
• International Advisory Board Member, Center for Urban History of East Central
Europe Board Member, L’viv, Ukraine, 2007-present (2014 and 2015)
• Visiting Fellow, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, 20122013
• Colorado Fulbright Association Board Member, 2010-2014
• Research Associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2007-present
• American Historical Association (AHA), joined 2004
• Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), joined 2002
• Association for the Advancement of Russian, East European, and Eurasian
Studies (ASEEES, formerly AAASS), joined 2000
ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICE
• History Graduate Committee, UNCO, 2008-present (2014 and 2015)
• HSS Awards Committee, UNCO, 2015-present
• History, Literature, and Humanities Committee (LAC), UNCO, Sept. 2010-May
2014, Aug. 2015-present (2014 and 2015)
• Byerly Award Committee, UNCO, 2008-present
• Faculty Representative, Fulbright and Boren Scholarships and Fellowships,
UNCO, 2008-present (2014 and 2015)
• Arranger of “Careers in History: What Can I Do with a History B.A?” UNCO,
2010-present
• Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, UNCO, 2012-2013
• Chair, Medieval History Search Committee, UNCO, 2011-2012
• Program Review and Assessment Committee (PRAC), UNCO, 2010-2012
• History Department Early Modern History Search Committee, UNCO, 2010-2011
• Faculty Moderator for College Republicans and Democrats Debate on U.S.
Foreign Policy, UNCO, Mar. 2010
• Faculty Representative, Barnes & Noble Committee, UNCO, 2009-2010
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History Department Faculty Liaison to Michener Library Acquisitions, UNCO,
2009-2012
Bloch Holocaust (Best Paper) Award Committee, UNCO, 2009-present
Attended “Powerful Powerpoint” seminar, Center for the Enhancement of
Teaching and Learning, UNCO, Nov. 2008
Audited “Teaching Geography” course with 15 Ph.D. Students in Geography,
Clark University, Worcester Consortium, WSC, Spring 2008
“Improving Interdisciplinary Studies,” Brown Bag Luncheon, Center for
Teaching and Learning, Worcester State College, Mar. 2008
“Engaged Learning: Fostering Student Success,” New England Faculty
Development Consortium (NEFDC), Nov. 2007
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