Steven Seegel |
Steven Seegel joined the University of Northern Colorado as assistant professor of history in August 2008. He received his B.A. in history and English language and literature from the All-College Honors Program at Canisius College (1999), and his M.A. (2000) and Ph.D. (2005) in Russian and European History from Brown University. Before arriving at UNC he held postdoctoral positions at the University of Tennessee, Worcester State College, and at Harvard University, where he was a Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in 2006-7, and Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute in 2008.
At UNC, Dr. Seegel specializes in the intellectual and political history of Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union, and the history of applied geopolitics and historiosophical schemes in Central and Eastern Europe. His revised dissertation, Floating States: The Purposes of Cartography in East-Central Europe from the Enlightenment to the Treaty of Versailles, an analysis of the institutional purposes of modern map production and the individual lives of cartographers in changing borderlands, is currently being considered for publication. A second book-length manuscript and full catalogue, Ukraine under Western Eyes: European Maps of Ukraine from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century in the Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Collection, a profile of what has become the largest single collection of maps of Ukraine in North America, is to be published by Harvard University Press and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute in 2009.
Dr. Seegel is involved in a number of joint research initiatives, and has presented his research in Britain, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Russia, and Ukraine. At Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, he participated in the multiyear Borderlands Project, steered by Omer Bartov. Since 2005, he has served as the principal translator from Russian and Polish for the ongoing Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos project at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is a contributor since August 2005 to the international History of Cartography series. Recent chapter-length articles have appeared in the journal Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperialism and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Space and the edited volume, Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine, eds. Dominique Arel and Blair A. Ruble (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), based on a series of workshops held at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Seegel’s latest project focuses on the business and politics of online genealogy between Eastern Europe and North America.
In his courses at UNC, Dr. Seegel prizes intellectual innovation and the challenge of learning—and teaching oneself—how to think and research independently. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), the Polish Studies Association (PSA), the American Association for Ukrainian Studies (AAUS), and the American Historical Association (AHA).
Classes
During Fall 2009, Dr. Seegel is teaching:
- HIST 121: Western Civilization from 1689 to the Present
- HIST 283: Russian Civilization
- HIST 480: Senior Seminar: Space and Identity—New Europe
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Curriculum Vitae
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