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Steven Harris

 

Steven Harris
Associate Professor
Office: Monroe 224
Phone: 540.654.1390
Email: sharris@umw.edu

 

Steven Harris is a historian of modern Russia and Europe. He teaches courses on Russian and French history, Stalinism, socialism, urbanization, conspiracy theories, and the Russian novel. His research interests include mass housing, architecture, and urbanization in Soviet history, transnational cultural contacts during the Cold War, and the global history of conspiracy theories. His most recent publication is “Two Lessons in Modernism: What the Architectural Review and America’s Mass Media Taught Soviet Architects about the West,” no. 31 in Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures and Societies (August 2010): 1-93. He is presently completing a manuscript project on Soviet mass housing under Khrushchev.

 

Education
  • Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2003. History.
  • M.A., University of Chicago, 1998. History
  • B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995. History and Political Science.
Courses
HIST 200B4: Urbanization and Modernity in Europe, 1789-present

 

Publications

Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin.
Baltimore: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press and the Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2013.

“Soviet Mass Housing and the Communist Way of Life,” forthcoming in the edited
volume, Everyday Life in the Russian Past and Present (Indiana University Press).

Two Lessons in Modernism: What the Architectural Review and America’s Mass Media
Taught Soviet Architects about the West, Trondheim Studies on East European Cultures and
Societies 31 (Trondheim: Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, 2010).

“‘I Know All the Secrets of My Neighbors’: The Quest for Privacy in the Era of the Separate
Apartment,” in Borders of Socialism: Private Spheres of Soviet Russia, ed. Lewis H.
Siegelbaum (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 171-189.

“‘We Too Want to Live in Normal Apartments’: Soviet Mass Housing and the Marginalization
of the Elderly under Khrushchev and Brezhnev,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 32, no.
2-3 (2005): 143-174.

“In Search of ‘Ordinary’ Russia: Everyday Life in the NEP, the Thaw, and the Communal
Apartment,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 6, 3 (Summer 2005):
583-614.

 

For further information, see stevenharris.umwblogs.org.