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Curriculum Vitae for Steven Seegel Steven Seegel CV revised August 2021 Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies The University of Texas at Austin UT Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies 2505 University Ave., F-3600 Austin, TX 78712 preferred email: [email protected] Twitter: @steven_seegel Facebook (public): https://www.facebook.com/steven.seegel/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-seegel-60b3a6116/ Academia.edu: https://unco.academia.edu/StevenSeegel ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven_Seegel Homepage: stevenseegel.com TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND WORK HISTORY August 2021-present: Professor (tenured, full rank) of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 2019-present: New Books Network podcaster and host (~10,000 archived author-feature interviews, now 104 channels, 1.6M downloads/month; I have completed 70+ podcasts) 2017-2021: Professor (tenured, full rank) of History, University of Northern Colorado 2020-2021: Visiting Guest Lecturer, San Diego State University, History Dept. 2012-2017: Associate Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado 2008-2012: Assistant Professor of History, University of Northern Colorado 2008: Director of the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (HUSI), Harvard University 2007-2008: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Worcester State College (now Worcester State University) 2006-2007: Post-doc Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Harvard University 2005-2006: Post-doc Lecturer, History Department, University of Tennessee-Knoxville 2005-present: Translator (Russian and Polish) of 300+ source entries and place histories, Geoffrey Megargee and Martin C. Dean, eds., The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, 7 vols., United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Indiana University Press 1995-1999: Library Assistant and Database Designer, Special Collections Department of Genealogy, Local History and Rare Books, Buffalo (NY) and Erie County Public Library EDUCATION Ph.D., History, 2006: Brown University, Russian and European History, Dissertation: “Blueprinting Modernity: Nation-State Cartography and Intellectual Ordering in Russia’s European Empire, Ukraine, and Former Poland-Lithuania, 1795-1917” A.M., History, 2000: Brown University History Department B.A., History and English (double major), 1999: Canisius College, All-College Honors Program, summa cum laude 1 Languages for Research: Belarusian, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Latin, Lithuanian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Yiddish PUBLISHED BOOK MONOGRAPHS Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2018) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo27760776.html • Reviewed in Ab Imperio, American Historical Review, The Cartographic Journal, Comparativ, German Studies Review, H-Net, H-SHERA, Historische Zeitschrift, Hungarian Cultural Studies, Hungarian Geographical Bulletin, Journal of East Central European Studies, Slavic Review, and other venues Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2012) https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo12120827.html • 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 SHORT WORKS (peer-reviewed) Ukraine under Western Eyes: The Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Ucrainica Map Collection (Harvard University Press, 2011/2013) • Reissued with a DVD of nearly 100 maps in November 2013 • Presented at Harvard to Olexander Motsyk, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States, in September 2013 • Curated with an exhibition in April 2008 at Pusey Library, Harvard University, and The Bohdan Krawciw Memorial Lecture, “Cartography and Ukrainian Geopolitics: The Krawciw Ucrainica Map Collection and the European Mapping of Ukraine,” Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. • Commissioned with the Eugene and Daymel Shklar post-doctoral research fellowship in 2006/7, by Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research Institute ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS (* Please note delays due to COVID-19.) 13. “Trianon and Map Men after 100 Years,” Simon Wiesenthal Lecture, 10 June 2021, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute (VWI) for Holocaust Studies, revised and accepted as an article for for publication in VWI e-journal Shoah: Intervention, Methods, Documentation. (forthcoming) 12. “Skins, Lines, Borders: Entangled Experts and Subtext Mappings of Eastern Europe in 1919,” in Peter Nekola, ed., Redrawing the World: 1919 and the History of 2 Cartography (20th Kenneth J. Nebenzahl Lectures and Newberry Library), University of Chicago Press. (forthcoming) 11. "Murder of a Transnational Map Man: Ideology, Scientific Expertise, and the Fate of Revolutionary Belarus in the Life and Work of the Geographer Arkadz Smolich (1891- 1938)," in Olga Linkiewicz, Katrin Steffen, and Maciej Górny, eds., Transnational Conversations: Scientists and the Big Questions of Twentieth-Century History, in the Journal of the Polish Academy of Sciences, special issue. (forthcoming) 10. “From Explorer to Expert: Tensions of Gender, Space, and Geographical Knowledge in the Polish Transnational Case of Eugeniusz Romer,” in Osteuropaexperten und Politik im 20. Jahrhundert, in Osteuropa, eds. Jan Kusber, Jörn Happel, and Heidi-Hein Kircher, special volume issue. (forthcoming) 9. "Any Lessons Learned? Echo Chambers of Staged Geopolitics and Ethnocentricity in Maps of the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in February-March 2014," in Sabine von Löwis, ed., Umstrittene Räume in der Ukraine / Controversial Spaces in Ukraine (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2019), 125-149. 8. “Mediating the Antemurale Myth in Ostmitteleuropa: Religion and Politics in Modern Geographers’ Entangled Lives and Maps,” in Heidi Hein-Kircher and Liliya Berezhnaya, eds., Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism (New York: Berghahn Books, 2019), 262-292. 7. “Geography, Identity, Nationality: Mental Maps of Contested Russian-Ukrainian Borderlands,” Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity 44:3 (2016): 473-487. Published online, 20 January 2016. 6. “Remapping the Geo-Body: Transnational Dimensions of Stepan Rudnyts’kyi and His Contemporaries," in Serhii Plokhy, ed., The Future of the Past: New Perspectives on Ukrainian History (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016), 205-229. 5. “Cartography and Nation-Building Dynamics: The Russian Empire and Former Poland-Lithuania,” in Michael Branch, ed., Defining Self: Essays on Emergent Identities in Russia, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries (Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society, 2009), 404-414. 4. “Prizm Boplana” (Ukrainian), Ahora no. 5 (Kyiv, Ukraine: Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 2007), 18-28. 3. “Metageography Unbound? Late 19th-Century European Borderland Cartography and the Geopolitical Construction of Space,” Ab Imperio 2/2007, 179-208. 2. “Beauplan’s Prism: Represented Contact Zones and Nineteenth-Century Mapping Practices in Ukraine,” in Blair A. Ruble and Dominique Arel, eds., Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine (Baltimore and Washington, D.C.: The Johns Hopkins University Press and Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 2006), 151-81. 3 1. “Cartography and the Collected Nation in Joachim Lelewel’s Geographical Imagination: A Revised Approach to Intelligentsia,” in Fiona Björling and Alexander Pereswetoff-Morath, eds., Values, Words and Deeds, vol. 22 (Lund, Sweden: Slavica Lundensia, 2006), 23-31. OTHER RELEVANT SCHOLARLY/PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLICATIONS Steven Seegel, “Foreword” to Steven Jobbitt and Robert Győri, Geography and the Nation after Trianon (Routledge, forthcoming) (800-word preface) Rebecca Mitchell and Steven Seegel, “The Professor Purges in Retrospect: ASEEES Concerns and Advocacy Plans,” ASEEES NewsNet, January 2021 https://www.aseees.org/news-events/aseees-blog-feed/2020-professor-purges-retrospect- aseees-concerns-and-advocacy-plans Steven Seegel, “Why Follow Belarus? History, Culture, and Resistance,” for the Chronicle from Belarus blog/zine, started in August 2020 by the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen/ Institute for the Human Sciences (IWM), August 2020 https://www.iwm.at/chronicle-from-belarus/steven-seegel-why-follow-belarus/ Steven Seegel, “Canisius College Betraying Its Liberal Arts Mission,” The Buffalo News, July 27, 2020 (op-ed) Steven Seegel, "Preface" to Igor Barinov, ed., Ukraina: allgemeine deutsche Bibliographie, 1919-1944 (Moskau-Berlin: Ibidem), forthcoming (500-word preface) Steven Seegel, “Military Maps and Mapping by Russia,” in Claudia Asch and Roger Kain, The History of Cartography: Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, vol. 5, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming (3,000-word encyclopedia entry) Steven Seegel, “Russian Geographical Society,” in Claudia Asch and Roger Kain, eds., The History of Cartography: Cartography in the Nineteenth Century, vol. 5, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming (2,000-word encyclopedia entry) Steven Seegel, "The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania," in Matthew Edney
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