Cristofer Scarboro

King’s College • Department of History • Honors Program Director

133 N. River St. • Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711 • Tel: (570)208-5900 ext. 5637

cristoferscarboro@kings.edu • www.staff.kings.edu/cristoferscarboro

Education

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of History, Ph.D., 2007; M.A. January 2001; Major Advisor: Keith Hitchins

Dissertation: “Living Socialism: The Bulgarian Socialist Humanist Experiment”

Dissertation Committee: Keith Hitchins, Maria Todorova, Diane Koenker, Antoinette Burton

Fields: Eastern European History, Russian and Soviet History, Constructed Field in Nationalism, Transnationalism and Postcolonialism

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

Publications

“Sysiphus Revisted: Consumption Boredom and Collapse in Late Socialist Bulgaria,” in Antropologiia, September, 2014.

Living after the Fall: Past-Present in South Eastern Europe, co-edited with Ivaylo Ditchev, Papers of the American Research Center in Sofia, spring 2015.

The Late Socialist Good Life in Bulgaria: Meaning and Living in a Permanent Present Tense, Lexington Books, 2011.

“A Brief History of the Birth, Ironies and Future of Globalization,” in Contours of Globalization, P. K. Haldar, ed., Global Publishing: Guwahatti, India, 2012.

“‘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, 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,” Ethnologia Balkanica, vol. 10, 2007.

“Keith Hitchins şi occidentalismul balcanic,” Vatra vol. 7, 2006.

“Socialist Humanism on Tour: Monuments, Public Spaces and Subjectivity in Haskovo, Bulgaria,” Ethnologia Balkanica special edition on Urban Life and Culture in Southeastern Europe, vol. 10, 2006.

“From Turkish Bath to Parliament Building: The Ambivalence of Colonial Desire,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring, 2005.

Review of Theodora Dragostinova, Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011 in Journal of Modern History, forthcoming.

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.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Fields: European History, Eastern and South Eastern European History, Russian and

Soviet History, Global History, Colonialism and Post-colonialism, Transnationalism

Associate Professor, King’s College 2006-present

Liberal Arts Seminar: Reading the Visual (CORE 100)

Liberal Arts Seminar: Socialist Realism (CORE 100)

Western Civilization to 1914 (CORE 131)

World History since 1453 (CORE 133)

World History since 1453: Humans and Nature (CORE 133 / TILE)

Global History since 1914 (CORE 191)

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

Modern Latin America (HIST 235)

Eastern Europe since the Enlightenment (HIST 278)

Colonial Worlds (HIST 280)

Historical Research and Methods (HIST 261)

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

Senior Seminar (HIST 415)

Honors Western Civilization since the Great Revolutions (HNRS 136)

Visiting Instructor, Holy Cross College, Agartala, India 2010-2011

Instructor, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2003-2006

History of Europe since 1939: “Competing Modernities”

Senior Research Seminar: “Geographies of Europe”

History of Russia from the Earliest Times: “Russia and Empire”

Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2003-2006

History of Modern Latin America

European History from the Enlightenment

United States Foreign Policy in the 20^th Century

History of the United States since Reconstruction

Instructor of English, Okruzhen Natural Sciences and Mathematics High School Haskovo,

Bulgaria, 1996-1997

Fellowships and Grants

American Research Center in Sofia, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Spring 2014

American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship in East European Studies, 2005-2006

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2003-2004

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

Presentations

“The Good Life and Goods: Boredom and the Collapse of Communism,” presented at Chervenata kushta tsentur na kultura i debat, Sofia (The Red House: Center for Culture and Debate) June 2014.

“Consumption and Collapse in Late Socialist Bulgaria, presented at Haspel, Sofia: “Novi levi perspektivi” (New Left Perspectives), May 2014.

“Looking at Boredom under Late Socialism,” presented at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Institute of Ethnographic and Folklore Studies, “Ethnography of Socialism Section,” April 2014.

“Sisyphus Revisited: Late Socialism in Repose,” presented at the American Univerisity in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, March 2014.

“The Revenge of the More: Collapse and Late Socialism,” presented at the American Research Center in Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria, March, 2014.

“Collapse and Creative Anxiety: Looking at the End of the Socialist Good Life,” presented at the Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies, New Orleans, 2012.

“Middle Class Sustainability and the 'Anxiety of Progress' in Bulgarian Socialist Humanism,” sponsored by the King’s College Green Initiative, 2009.

“Searching for the Sublime in Bulgarian Socialist Realist Landscape Painting” presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies, Philadelphia, 2008.

“‘Make Every Day an Excursion’: Creating Socialist Humanist Proximate Tourism,” at the Bulgarian Studies Association, Varna, Bulgaria, 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.

“Borat and the Problem of Eastern Europe,” presented to the King’s College Honor’s Colloquium March, 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 Humanist—Touring 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, 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.

Invited Participant in the Workshop “From Stalinism to Pepsi Cola” at the First Annual Summer School of Interdisciplinary Polish and German Studies: Borders, Cultures and Identities at the Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt-Oder, Germany, 2014.

Visiting Instructor and Director of Curricular Development, Holy Cross College, Agartala, India and Notre Dame College, Dhaka Bangladesh.

Coordinator, King’s College Thematic Integrated Learning Experience (TILE) Organized King’s College initial foray into learning communities. Coordinated syllabi and programs for the TILE 2008-2010.

Coordinator, King’s College Border House Program organized King’s College application for McGowan, Fullbright-Hays and Title VI grant applications to develop Border House Learning Communities at King’s College. 2008-2010.

Participant in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar, August 12-16, Wye Woods Conference Center, Maryland, 2005.

Participant in 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.