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Cristofer Scarboro Department of History King's College 133 N. River St. Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711 USA
Hafey-Marian 312 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
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of History, Ph.D., 2007
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and History, 1995
Teaching
Liberal Arts Seminar: Reading the Visual (CORE 100)
Western Civilization to 1914 (CORE 131)
World History Since 1453 (CORE 133)
Global History since 1914 (CORE 191)
History through Biography: "Post War Europe" (HIST 255)
Historical Research and Methods (HIST 261)
Colonial Worlds (HIST 380)
Cold War Cultures: Visions of the "Good Life" (HIST 477)
Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Century (HIST 488)
Honors Western Civilization since the Great Revolutions (HNRS 136)
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"
Natural Sciences and Mathematics High School Haskovo, Bulgaria
Instructor of English
Research Interests
Socialism and Socialist Humanism
Cultures of Colonialism and Post Colonialism
Nationalism and Transnationalism
Southeastern Europe
Socialist Realism
Publications
“‘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
“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.
Dissertation
Living Socialism: The Bulgarian Socialist Humanist Experiment
Book Reviews
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
Fellowships and Grants
Department of History Pre-dissertation Research Travel Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 2001
Awards and Academic Distinctions
Professional Development
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
Editorial Assistant, Slavic Review, 2001-2002
Professional Affiliations
American Historical Association
American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies
International Association of Southeastern European Anthropology
Syllabi and Course Materials
Fall 2008
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CORE 100: Liberal Arts Seminar: Reading the Visual |
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CORE 133: World Civilizations 1453 to the Present |
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HIST 380 A: Colonial Worlds
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CORE 133:
World Civilizations 1453 to the Present
Moodle Site
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HIST 365: Modern Latin America |
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Honors 136: Western Experiences since
the 18th Century
Past Syllabi: Spring 2007 (HNRS 204) Spring 2008 (HNRS 204)
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Courses in Regular Rotation
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CORE 131:
Western Civilization
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Core 132: Global History Since 1914
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CORE 133:
World Civilizations 1453 to the Present
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History 255: History through Biography: "Post War Europe"
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History 261: Research and Methods
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HIST 365: Modern Latin America
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HIST 380 A: Colonial Worlds
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History 477: Cold War Cultures:
Visions of the "Good Life"
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History 488: Eastern Europe and the Question of Modernity
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History of Europe Since 1939: "Competing Modernities" |
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History of Russia Since the Earliest Times: "Russia and Empire"
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Senior Research
Seminar: "Geographies of Europe"
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Liberal Arts
Seminar: Reading the Visual
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Honors 136: Western Experiences since
the 18th Century
Past Syllabi: Spring 2007 (HNRS 204) Spring 2008 (HNRS 204) |
WebCT Courses in regular Rotation
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Core 131: Western Civilization to 1914
(WebCT)
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Core 132: Global History Since 1914 (WebCT)
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