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Cristofer Scarboro Department of History King's College 133 N. River St. Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711 USA
Hafey-Marian 314 Office Phone: (570) 208-5900 ext. 5637 Fax: (570) 208-5988 email: cristoferscarboro@kings.edu
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Hristo Forev, Doiachka ot selo Stransko, (Milkmaid from the village Stransko), 1962 Haskovo Art Gallery |
| Education | Teaching | Research Interests | Publications | Presentations |
| Fellowships and Grants | Professional Affiliations | Course Materials | Study Abroad | Learning Communities |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of History, Ph.D., 2007. Dissertation: Living Socialism: The Bulgarian Socialist Humanist Experiment.
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and History, 1995.
King's College, Department of History
| Core 100: Bob Dylan and the American Century | Core 100: Building the Socialist Superman | Core 100: Reading the Visual |
| Core 131: Western Civilization to 1914 | HNRS 136: Western Civilization in the Era of Modernity | Core 133: World Civilization from 1453 |
| Core 191: Global History since 1914 | HIST 222: History through Biography: Post War Europe | HIST 246: Modern Latin America |
| HIST 261: Research and Methods | HIST 280: Colonial Worlds | HIST 362: Eastern Europe since the Enlightenment |
| HIST 364: Balkanisms | HIST 368: Cold War Cultures | HIST 415: Senior Seminar: Question of Communism |
| SOC 491 / HIST 440: Geographies of Europe |
Summer Course on Moodle
| CORE 131: Western Civilization to 1914 | CORE 191: Global History since 1914 | HIST 368: Cold War Cultures |
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
| History of Europe since 1939: "Competing Modernities" |
History of Russia since the
Earliest Times: "Russia and Empire" |
Senior Research Seminar:
"Geographies of Europe" |
Socialism and Socialist Humanism
Cultures of Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
Nationalism and Transnationalism
Southeastern Europe
Socialist Realism
The Meaning of Middle Class Communism: The Bulgarian Socialist Humanist Experiment, Lexington Press, forthcoming.
The Brother-City Project and Socialist Humanism: Haskovo, Tashkent and Sblizhenie, Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 86, no. 3, July, 2007.
Socialist Humanism on Tour: Monuments, Public Spaces and Subjectivity in Haskovo, Bulgaria, Ethnologia Balkanica, vol. 10, 2007.
Keith Hitchins şi occidentalismul balcanic, Vatra vol. 7, 2006.
From Turkish Bath to Parliament Building: The Ambivalence of Colonial Desire, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 6, No. 1, Spring, 2005.
Living Socialism: The Bulgarian Socialist Humanist Experiment, University of Illinois, 2007.
Review of Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005 in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall, 2005.
"Haskovo and
"Middle Class Sustainability and the 'Anxiety of Progress' in Bulgarian Socialist Humanism," sponsored by the King's College Green Initiative brown bag series on sustainability, April 2009.
"Searching for the Sublime in Bulgarian Industrial Landscape Painting," at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies, Philadelphia, November 2008.
"Socialist Realism and the Ironies of Public Spheres of Protest," Invited Presenter at the Marie Curie Institute Summer Workshop: Confronting Cold War Conformity: Peace and Protest Cultures in Europe, 1945-1989. Prague, Czech Republic, August, 2008.
"'Make Everyday an Excursion:' Creating Socialist Humanist Proximate Tourism," at the Bulgarian Studies Association, Varna, Bulgaria, June 2008.
"Today's Unseen Enthusiasm: Communist Nostalgia for Communism in the Brigadier Movement," presented at the Russian East European and Eurasian Center International Conference on Post Communist Nostalgia, Champaign-Urbana Illinois, April 7-8, 2006.
"Monuments, Public Spaces and Socialist HumanistTouring Haskovo, Bulgaria," presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies, Salt Lake City, November, 3-6, 2005, organized panel entitled: Traversing Borders: Creating Socialist Subjects through Tourism.
"Mapping Socialist Subjectivity: Reading Haskovo Bulgaria Through Proximate Tourism," presented at the International Association for Southeast European Anthropology, Conference on the theme: "Urban Life and Culture in Southeast Europe," in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro May 20-22, 2005, organized panel entitled: Travel and Leisure in the Making of Socialist Citizens.
"Difference, Self and Other in the Sister City Program: Sisters in Socialism: Haskovo, Bulgaria and Tashkent, Soviet Socialist Uzbek Republic," presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies, Boston, December 4-7, 2004, organized panel entitled: From Russia with Love: Engaging Communism across Borders.
"Socializing Aesthetics: Negotiating the Socialist Humanist Art Gallery," presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies, Toronto, November 20-23, 2003.
"From Turkish Bath to Parliament Building: An Investigation of Colonial Desire," presented at the Canadian Association of Slavonic Studies, University of Toronto, May 24-26, 2002.
"Wrongly Masculine: British Imaginings of the Balkans 1878-1914," presented at the Third Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 7-9, 2002.
Department of History Pre-dissertation Research Travel Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 2001.
Participant in the Balkan Studies Training Workshop for Junior Scholars on the theme Thinking and Writing Balkan Studies: Policy and Paradigms for the 21st Century, Russian East European and Eurasian Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.
American Historical Association
American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies
International Association of Southeastern European Anthropology
Spring 2011
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CORE 100:
Bob Dylan and the American Century Syllabus Moodle Site Assignments Album List |
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CORE 133:
World Civilizations 1453 to the Present
Past Syllabi: Spring 2009 |
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Honors 136: Western Experiences since
the Modern Revolutions
Past Syllabi: Spring, 2007 (HNRS 204) Spring, 2008 (HNRS 204) Spring, 2009 (HNRS 136) Spring 2010 (HNRS 136) |
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History 368: Cold War Cultures:
Visions of the "Good Life"
Past Syllabi: Fall 2007 (HIST 477) |
Courses in Regular Rotation
Summer On-Line Classes in Regular Rotation
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CORE 131: Western Civilization to
1914
Moodle Site Sharepoint
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CORE 191: Global History Since
1914 Syllabus (Summer 2009)
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HIST 368: Cold War Cultures:
Visions of the "Good Life" Syllabus (Summer 2009)
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King's College Short Term
Faculty-Led Study Abroad Program
Summer 2011: "Geographies of Europe: Venice-Istanbul" Nicole Mares and Daniel Clasby, Directors
Summer 2010: "Geographies of Europe: Sofia-Istanbul" Bridget Costello and Cristofer Scarboro , Directors
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King's College Learning Communities
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King's College Border
House Program 2010-2011: What is the West? Courses: Fall 2010 CORE 100: "What is the West?," Admiraal CORE 191: Global History since 1914, Scarboro Spring 2011 CORE 131: Western Civilization, Pavlac CORE 164: Contemporary Global Literature, McClinton-Temple Summer 2011 Short Term Faculty led Study Abroad Program Venice-Istanbul International Studies Minor |
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King's College
Thematic Integrated Learning Communities 2010: "Humans and Nature" |
