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

Buzludzha, Bulgaria

 

King's College Department of History King's College Honors Program King's College
Short Term, Faculty Led Study Abroad Program:
Geographies of Europe

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

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 CORE 133: World Civilizations since 1453 HNRS 136: Western Civilization since the Modern Revolutions
CORE 191: World History since 1914 HIST 222: History through Biography: Post War Europe HIST246: Modern Latin America
HIST 261: Research and Methods HIST 280: Colonial Worlds HIST 362: Eastern Europe since the Enlightenment
HIST 363: (Re) Inventing Russia HIST 364: Balkanisms HIST 368: Cold War Cultures
HIST 415: The Question of Communism SOC 491 / HIST 440: Geographies of Europe  

Summer Courses on Moodle, King's College

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

 

CORE 140: Balkan Cultures

Syllabus

Moodle Site

 

 

 

 

 

Summer, 2013

CORE 100: Bob Dylan and the American Century

Syllabus

Moodle Site

Assignments

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past Syllabi: Spring 2011

CORE 191: Global History since 1914

Syllabus

Moodle Site

Assignments

Paper Topics

 

 

 

 

Past Syllabi: Spring 2007; Fall 2010

HIST 363: (Re) Inventing Russia: Russia and Empire

Syllabus

Moodle Site








Past Syllabi:
Summer 2004 (University of Illinois)

Courses in Regular Rotation

 

CORE 100: Bob Dylan and the American Century

















CORE 100: Building the Socialist Superman

Syllabus (Fall, 2009)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roy Lichtensteins Meat 1962 CORE 100: Reading the Visual

Syllabus (Fall, 2008)

Sharepoint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CORE 131:  Western Civilization to 1914

Syllabus (Fall, 2009)

Moodle Site

Sharepoint

Assignments

 

 

 

 

 

Past Syllabi:  Fall 2007 ; Fall 2009

CORE 133: World Civilizations 1453 to the Present

Syllabus (Spring 2013)

Moodle Site

 

 

 

 

 

Past Syllabi: Spring, 2009;  Fall, 2009; Spring, 2010; Fall, 2012

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

  CORE 191: Global History since 1914

Syllabus

Moodle Site

Assignments

Paper Topics

 

 

 

 

Past Syllabi: Spring 2007; Fall 2010

HIST 222:  History through Biography: "Post War Europe"

Syllabus (HIST 255 / Fall, 2006)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HIST 246: Modern Latin America

Syllabus (HIST 365 / Spring, 2009)

Sharepoint 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HIST 261: Historical Research and Methods

Syllabus (Spring, 2007)

Sharepoint

 

 

 

 

 

 

HIST 280: Colonial Worlds

Syllabus (Spring 2013)

Moodle Site

Films

 

 

 

 

 

Past Syllabi: Fall 2008 (HIST 380); Fall, 2010

HIST 362:  Eastern Europe in the Era of Modernity

Syllabus (HIST 488 / Spring, 2008)

Sharepoint

Eastern European Film

 

 

 

 

 

 

HIST 363: (Re) Inventing Russia: Russia and Empire

Syllabus

Moodle Site








Past Syllabi:
Summer 2004 (University of Illinois)

HIST 364: Balkanisms: Southeastern Europe and the Making of the Balkans

Course Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Komar & Melamid, Air Superiority (from American Dreams series) HIST 368: Cold War Cultures: Visions of the "Good Life"

Syllabus (Spring, 2011)

Moodle Site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Past Syllabi: Fall 2007 (HIST 477)

HIST 415: The Question of Communism

Syllabus

Moodle Site

Group List

Discussion List

 

 

Past Syllabi: Fall 2010

HIST 440 / SOC 491: Seminar: Geographies of Europe
Scarboro / Costello

Syllabus (Spring, 2010)

Moodle

 

 

 

 

 

Senior Research Seminar: "Geographies of Europe"

Syllabus (Fall, 2006 / University of Illinois)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summer On-Line Classes in Regular Rotation

  CORE 131: Western Civilization to 1914

Syllabus

Moodle Site

Sharepoint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  CORE 191: Global History since 1914

Syllabus (Summer 2009)

Moodle Site

Sharepoint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HIST 368: Cold War Cultures: Visions of the "Good Life"

Syllabus (Summer 2009)

Moodle Site

Sharepoint