Cristofer Scarboro
Research
Publications
Books:
•Middle Class Communism and the Revenge of the More: Consumption, Boredom and
Collapse in Late Socialist Bulgaria,
under contract at Berghahn Press.
•The Late
Socialist Good Life in Bulgaria: Meaning and Living in a Permanent Present
Tense,
Lexington
Books, 2011.
Articles:
•“Sisyphus Revisited: Consumption Boredom and Collapse in Late Socialist Bulgaria,” in Antropologiia, September, 2014.
•“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.
•“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.
Editorial Work:
•Pleasures of Backwardness: Redefining
Desire and Development in Eastern Europe,
Zsuzsa Gille, Diana Mincyte, and Cristofer Scarboro eds.,
under review at Indiana University Press.
•Guest Editor for a Special Issue of
Südosteuropa. Zeitschrift für
Politik und Gesellschaft entitled: “Living after the Fall: Contingent
Biographies in Post-Socialist Space,” fall 2016.
•Guest Editor for a Special Issue of
Antropologiia entitled:
“Living after the Fall: Past-Present in Southeastern Europe,” spring 2016.
Reviews:
•Review of Mary
Neuburger, Balkan Smoke: Tobacco
and the Making of Modern Bulgaria, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University
Press, 2011 in Slavic Review,
vol. 73, no. 1, spring 2014.
•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, vol. 85 no. 1, March 2013.
•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
•“Workers are the Truest and Best Poets! The Aesthetics of Work and the Work
of Aesthetics,”
presented at
the Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies, Washington,
DC, November 2016.
•“Crossing Borders and Reading Landscapes: Reimagining Short-term Study
Abroad’s Purpose and Pedagogy” with Bridget Costello at the American
Association of Colleges and Universities, Global Learning and the College
Curriculum Conference, Denver, Colorado, October 2016.
•The
Late Socialist Good Life and its Discontents:
Bit,
Kultura, and the Social Life
of Goods,” presented at
the Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies, Boston,
November 2015.
•“Expanding Access to Global Learning through Short-Term Study Abroad: Trials, Transformations, and Triumphs” with Bridget Costello, Noreen O’Connor, and Daniel Clasby at the American Association of Colleges and Universities, Global Learning Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, October 2015.
•“Bit,
Kultura, and the Ambivalence
of Consumer Desire in Late Socialist Bulgaria,” presented at the conference
“The Pleasures of Backwardness” at the University of California, Berkeley,
April, 2015.
•“Middle Class Communism and the
Revenge of the More,” presented at the Association for Slavic East-European
and Eurasian Studies, San Antonio, Texas, November, 2015.
•“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.
•“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 University 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.
•“Consumption and Collapse in
Late Socialist Bulgaria,” presented at Haspel, Sofia: “Novi levi
perspektivi”, May 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, April, 2009.
•“Searching for the
Sublime in Bulgarian Socialist Realist Landscape Painting” presented at the
American
Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies, Philadelphia, November
2008.
•“‘Make Every Day an
Excursion’: Creating Socialist Humanist Proximate Tourism,” at the Bulgarian
Studies Association, Varna, Bulgaria, June 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.
•“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, 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.
•“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.
•“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, February 8th, 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 4-7, 2004.
• “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.
Scholarly Development
•Editorial Committee,
Bulgarian Studies,
2016-present
•Editorial Board,
Academia,
2016-present
•Scientific Committee, Centre for Memory and Identity Studies, 2016-present
•Scientific Committee,
MemoScapes.
Romanian Journal of Memory and Identity Studies, 2016-present
•Lead Author of a Fulbright Scholar in Residence Grant to bring Pankaj
Charkraborty to King’s College for the 2015-16 Academic Year.
•Invited Participant in the Workshop “From Stalinism to Pepsi Cola” at the Wende
Musuem in Los Angeles, California, 2016
•Conference Organizer: “Living after the Fall(?): Past-Present in Southeastern
Europe,” at the American Research Center in Sofia, June 2014.
•Post-Doctoral Fellow, American Research Center in Sofia, 2014.
•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.
•Director, King’s College Honors Program, 2011-2013
•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.