Steven Seegel
Professor
History
College of Humanities & Social Sciences
Contact Information
Office Hours
T & Th 9:30-10:45am, please email for Zoom link or phone appointment
Mailing Address
University of Northern Colorado
Department of History
Campus Box 116
Greeley, CO 80639
Education
- B.A., History and English, Canisius College
- M.A., History, Brown University
- Ph.D., History, Brown University
Professional/Academic Experience
- (2017-present) Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado
- (2012-2017) Associate Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado
- (2008-2012) Assistant Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado
- (2008) Director, Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
- (2006-2008) Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Department of History and Political
Science, Worcester State College
- (2005-2006) Eugene and Daymel Shklar Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian
Research Institute
- (2005-2006) Lecturer, Department of History, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
- (2005-2011) Translator (Russian and Polish) of nearly 300 source entries, Geoffrey
Megargee and Martin C. Dean, eds., The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, 7 vols. (Indiana University Press, 2009-present)
Research/Areas of Interest
- Russian/Soviet, Central/Eastern European, and Eurasian History
- Intellectual and Political History; History of Geography; Critical Geography/Cartography;
Spatial and Digital Humanities
Publications/Creative Works
Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central
Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2018).
Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
- Finalist for the Joseph Rothschild Prize (2013), Association for the Study of Nationalities
(ASN)
- Reviewed in the Austrian History Yearbook, American Historical Review, Canadian Slavonic
Papers, Cartographica, Choice, Foreign Affairs, H-Net, Imago Mundi, Isis, the Journal
of Historical Geography, Nationalities Papers, Polish Review, Slavic Review, the Times
Literary Supplement, and other venues
Ukraine under Western Eyes (Harvard University Press, 2013)
- Reissued with a DVD of nearly 100 maps
- Presented at Harvard to the Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S., Olexander Motsyk, in
September 2013
Honors and Awards
- (2015) Visiting Senior Scholar, Centre for Urban History of East Central Europe, L’viv,
Ukraine
- (2015) Visiting Senior Fellow, Leibnitz Graduate School, Herder Institute for Historical
Research on East Central Europe, Marburg, Germany
- (2014) College of Humanities and Social Sciences Scholar Award, University of Northern
Colorado
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