Cristofer Scarboro

Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and History, 1995

“‘Today's Un-seen Enthusiasm’: Communist Nostalgia for Communism in the Socialist Humanist Brigadier Movement,” in Nostalgia for Communism, Maria Todorova and Zsuzsa Gille eds., Berghahn 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

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

Presentations

"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 Humanist—Touring 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

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

	CORE 131: Western Civilization Syllabus Sharepoint
	Core 132: Global History Since 1914 Syllabus Sharepoint
	CORE 133: World Civilizations 1453 to the Present Syllabus Sharepoint
	History 255: History through Biography: "Post War Europe" Syllabus
	History 261: Research and Methods Syllabus Sharepoint
	HIST 365: Modern Latin America Syllabus Sharepoint Assignments
	HIST 380 A: Colonial Worlds Syllabus Sharepoint
	History 477: Cold War Cultures: Visions of the "Good Life" Syllabus Sharepoint
	History 488: Eastern Europe and the Question of Modernity Syllabus Sharepoint Eastern European Film
	History of Europe Since 1939: "Competing Modernities"
	History of Russia Since the Earliest Times: "Russia and Empire" Syllabus
	Senior Research Seminar: "Geographies of Europe" Syllabus

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 and Russian East European and Eurasian Center Conference Travel Grants, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2003-2006

Foreign Language Area Studies, fellowship for the study of Bulgarian Language, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000-2002

Joseph Ward Swain Prize for best published article by a Graduate Student, for “From Bath House to Parliament Building” Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2005

William C. Widenor Teaching Fellowship, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004-2005

Fredrick S. Rodkey Prize for the most promising graduate student in Russian History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2001