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. (2006) in Russian and European History from Brown University. He specializes in the intellectual and political history of Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, modern East-Central Europe, and Eurasia.
Dr. Seegel is the author of Ukraine under Western Eyes (Harvard University Press, 2011), a profile of the recently donated Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Ucrainica Map Collection and a history of Ukrainian cartography from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. His next book, Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire, is under contract with the University of Chicago Press and slated for publication in spring 2012. The latter monograph is an analysis of the institutional bases and purposes of modern European map production, and the individual lives of cartographers in the changing borderlands between Vienna and St. Petersburg before the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, with special attention to Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, and Belarus. It investigates the long-term effects of national uses of European geographic and cartographic science, and offers a reinterpretation of the history of state-based imperial ambitions and nationalities issues as framed through maps.
In other scholarly pursuits, Dr. Seegel has been a contributor to the international History of Cartography series since 2005, and he has served as a translator from Russian and Polish for the award-winning Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, an ongoing seven-volume series published by Indiana University Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which began in 2009. His recent articles and reviews have appeared in Ab Imperio, Kritika, Slavic Review, Nationalities Papers, H-Habsburg, and H-Urban. He has presented research in Britain, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Russia, and Ukraine, and in November 2011 he returns to Sweden, as a Visiting Fellow of Uppsala University’s Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and its Forum on Peace, Democracy and Justice.
In his undergraduate and graduate courses at UNC, Dr. Seegel prizes intellectual innovation and invites his students to undertake the challenge of learning—and teaching oneself—how to read, think and execute research independently.
Classes
During spring 2012, Dr. Seegel is teaching:
- HIST 121: Western Civilization since 1689
- HIST 386: Twentieth-Century Russia
- HIST 394: European Intellectual History
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Curriculum Vitae
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