Cristofer Scarboro
Department of History
King's College
133 N. River St.
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711
USA
306 Hafey Marian
Office Phone: (570) 208-5900 ex. 5637
Fax: (507) 208-5988
Email: cristoferscarboro@kings.edu |
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Education:
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Department of History, Ph.D. 2007.
Dissertation: Living Socialism:
The Bulgarian Socialist Humanist Experiement.
Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and History, 1995.
Teaching:
Course in Regular Rotation King's College
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CORE 100: Bob Dylan and the American Century |
CORE 100: Building the Socialist Superman |
CORE 100: Reading the Visual |
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CORE 131: Western Civilization to 1914 |
CORE 133: World Civilizations since 1453 |
HNRS 136: Western Civilization since the Modern Revolutions |
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CORE 191: World History since 1914 |
HIST 222: History through Biography: Post War Europe |
HIST246: Modern Latin America |
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HIST 261: Research and Methods |
HIST 280: Colonial Worlds |
HIST 362: Eastern Europe since the Enlightenment |
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HIST 363: (Re) Inventing Russia |
HIST 364: Balkanisms |
HIST 368: Cold War Cultures |
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HIST 415: The Question of Communism |
SOC 491 / HIST 440: Geographies of Europe |
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Summer Courses on Moodle, King's College
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CORE 131: Western Civilization to 1914 |
CORE 191: World History since 1914 |
Hist 368: Cold War Cultures |
Courses at the University of Illinois, 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 |
Research Interests:
Socialism and Socialist Humanism
Cultures of Colonialism and Post Colonialism
Nationalism and Transnationalism
Southeastern Europe
Socialist Realism
20th Century European History and Culture
Publications:
The Late Socialist Good Life in Bulgaria: Meaning and Living in a Permanent
Present Tense, Lexington Books, 2012.
"A Brief History of the Birth, Ironies and Future of Globalization," in
Contours of Globalization, P. K. Haldar ed., Global Publishing House,
Guwahati, India, 2012.
"Today's Unseen Enthusiasm: Communist Nostalgia for Communism in the Socialist
Humanist Brigadier Movement," in Nostalgia
for Communism, Maria Todorova and Zsuzsa Gille, eds., Berghahn Press, 2010.
"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," Ethnologiia
Balkanica, vol. 10, 2007.
"Keith Hitchins
şi
occidentalismul balcanic," Vatra,
vol. 6, 2006."
"From Turkish Bath to Parliament Building: The Ambivalence of Colonial Desire," Journal
of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 6, No. 1, Spring, 2005.
Presentations:
"Collapse and Creative Anxiety:
Looking at the End of the Socialist Good Life," at the Association for
Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies, New Orleans, 2012."
"A Brief History of the Birth, History and Ironies of Globalization," at the
International Seminar "Globalization: Its Issues and Challeneges with Special
Reference to India" Holy Cross College, Agartala, India, 2011.
"Haskovo and Tashkent--Brothers in Socialism:
Sblizhenie and Its Discontents," at the American Association for the Advancement
of Slavonic Studies, Boston, 2009.
"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, 2009.
"Searching
for the Sublime in Bulgarian Industrial Landscape Painting," at the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies, Philadelphia, 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, 2008.
"'Make Everyday an Excursion:' Creating Socialist Humanist
Proximate Tourism," at the Bulgarian Studies Association, Varna, Bulgaria, 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,
2006.
"Monuments, Public Spaces and Socialist HumanistTouring Haskovo,
Bulgaria," presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic
Studies, Salt Lake City, 2005.
"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, 2005.
"Plotting the Self in a Bulgarian Socialist Realist Painting," presented at the
Russian East European and Eurasian Center, Noontime Scholars Series, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.
"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, 2004.
"Socializing
Aesthetics: Negotiating the Socialist Humanist Art Gallery," presented at the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies, Toronto, 2003.
"From Turkish Bath to Parliament Building: An Investigation of Colonial Desire,"
presented at the Canadian Association of Slavonic Studies, University of
Toronto, 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, 2002.
Fellowships and Grants:
American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship in East European
Studies, 2005-2006.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2003-2004.
Department of History Pre-dissertation Research Travel Grant, University of
Illinois at Urbana Champaign 2001.
Foreign Language Area Studies, fellowship for the study of Bulgarian Language,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000-2002.
Participant in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Junior
Scholars Training Seminar,
August 12-16, Wye Woods Conference Center, Maryland, 2005.
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.
Professional Affiliations:
American Historical Association
American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies
Bulgarian Studies Association
International Association of Southeastern European Anthropology
Summer, 2013
Summer, 2013
Courses in Regular Rotation
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CORE 100: Bob Dylan and the American Century
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CORE 100: Building the Socialist Superman
Syllabus
(Fall, 2009)
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CORE 100: Reading the Visual
Syllabus
(Fall, 2008)
Sharepoint
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CORE 131:
Western Civilization to
1914
Syllabus
(Fall, 2009)
Moodle Site
Sharepoint
Assignments
Past Syllabi:
Fall 2007
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Fall 2009 |
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CORE 133: World Civilizations 1453 to the Present
Syllabus (Spring 2013)
Moodle Site
Past Syllabi:
Spring, 2009;
Fall, 2009; Spring, 2010;
Fall, 2012
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HNRS 136: Western Experiences since
the Modern Revolutions
Syllabus
(Spring 2013)
Moodle Site
Past Syllabi:
Spring,
2007;
Spring, 2008;
Spring,
2009;
Spring 2010;
Spring 2011
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CORE 191: Global History
since 1914
Syllabus
Moodle Site
Assignments
Paper Topics
Past Syllabi:
Spring 2007;
Fall 2010
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HIST 222: History through Biography: "Post War Europe"
Syllabus
(HIST 255 / Fall, 2006)
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HIST 246: Modern Latin America
Syllabus (HIST 365 /
Spring, 2009)
Sharepoint
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HIST 261:
Historical Research and Methods
Syllabus
(Spring, 2007)
Sharepoint
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HIST 280:
Colonial Worlds
Syllabus (Spring 2013)
Moodle Site
Films
Past Syllabi:
Fall 2008 (HIST 380);
Fall, 2010 |
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HIST
362: Eastern Europe in the Era of Modernity
Syllabus (HIST 488 / Spring, 2008)
Sharepoint
Eastern European Film
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HIST 363: (Re) Inventing Russia: Russia and Empire
Syllabus
Moodle Site
Past Syllabi:
Summer 2004 (University of Illinois) |
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HIST 364: Balkanisms: Southeastern Europe and the Making
of the Balkans
Course Description
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HIST 368: Cold War Cultures:
Visions of the "Good Life"
Syllabus
(Spring, 2011)
Moodle Site
Past Syllabi:
Fall 2007
(HIST 477) |
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HIST
415: The Question of Communism
Syllabus
Moodle
Site
Group List
Discussion List
Past Syllabi:
Fall 2010 |
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HIST 440 / SOC 491: Seminar: Geographies of
Europe
Scarboro / Costello
Syllabus (Spring, 2010)
Moodle
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Senior Research
Seminar: "Geographies of Europe"
Syllabus
(Fall, 2006
/ University of Illinois)
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Summer On-Line
Classes in Regular Rotation
