Cristofer Scarboro, Ph.D.

Biography

Cristofer Scarboro, Ph.D., is a Professor of History at King's College where he teaches classes in global history, Russian and Eastern European studies, the Cold War, and Colonialism. He is the author of The Late Socialist Good Life in Bulgaria: Meaning and Living in a Permanent Present Tense (Lexington, 2011) and is the co-editor (with Zsuzsa Gille and Diana Mincyte) of The Socialist Good Life: Desire, Development, and Standards of Living (Indiana University Press, 2020) and has received awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Fulbright Program (twice), the American Research Center in Sofia, and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.

Education

• B.A., History and Philosophy, Kenyon College
• M.A., History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Ph.D., History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Publications and Presentations

• The Socialist Good Life: Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe, Cristofer Scarboro, Diana Mincytė and Zsuzsa Gille, eds., Indiana University Press, 2020.
• The Late Socialist Good Life in Bulgaria: Meaning and Living in a Permanent Present Tense, Lexington Books, 2011.
• “Mapping Heres and Theres,” in Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: Time Does not Move in One Direction, Markus Wein and Jill Massino, eds., Purdue University Press, 2024.
• Invited Guest Editor for a Special Issue of Südosteuropa. Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft entitled: “Living after the Fall: Contingent Biographies in Post-Socialist Space,” fall 2016.
• Invited Guest Editor for a Special Issue of Antropologiia entitled: “Living after the Fall: Past-Present in Southeastern Europe,” spring 2016.
• “Sisyphus Revisited: Consumption Boredom and Collapse in Late Socialist Bulgaria,” in Antropologiia, September, 2014.
• “A Brief History of the Birth, Ironies and Future of Globalization,” in Contours of Globalization, P. K.
  Haldar, ed., Global Publishing: Guwahatti, India, 2012.
• “‘Today's Un-seen Enthusiasm’: Communist Nostalgia for Communism in the Socialist Humanist Brigadier Movement,” in Nostalgia for Communism, Maria Todorova and Zsuzsa Gille eds., Berghahn Press, 2010.
• “The Brother-City Project and Socialist Humanism: Haskovo, Tashkent, and Sblizhenie,” Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 86 no. 3, July, 2007.
• “Keith Hitchins şi occidentalismul balcanic,” Vatra vol. 7, 2006.
• “Socialist Humanism on Tour: Monuments, Public Spaces and Subjectivity in Haskovo,
  Bulgaria,” Ethnologia Balkanica special edition on Urban Life and Culture in
  Southeastern Europe, vol. 10, 2006.
• “From Turkish Bath to Parliament Building: The Ambivalence of Colonial Desire,” Journal of
  Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring, 2005.

Awards and Designations

• Fulbright US Scholars Abroad Grand awarded 2020 (grant period, summer-fall 2021)
• American Research Center in Sofia, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Spring 2014
• American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship in East European Studies, 2005-2006
• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2003-2004
• Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS), fellowship for the study of Bulgarian Language, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000-2002
• Max and Tillie Rosenn Award for Teaching Excellence, King’s College, 2019

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