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Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia
History > Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- Cornell University Press
- Hardcover
- 9781501752889
- 9.2 X 7.7 X 0.7 inches
- 1 pounds
- History > Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- (Single Author) Asian American
- English
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Alexey Golubev is a scholar of Russian history with a focus on social and cultural history of the twentieth century and an additional expertise in STS, public and digital history. He completed his Ph.D. in history at the University of British Columbia in 2016 and spent a year as a Banting Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Toronto before joining the UH Department of History in fall 2017.
During the academic year 2020-21, he serves as the Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, where he is working on a project on science communication in socialist and post-socialist societies. Dr. Golubev has previously taught at Petrozavodsk University in Russia and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Freiburg in Germany.
His research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Killam Trusts, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, German Historical Institute in Moscow, and the Russian Foundation for Humanities.
Research Interests
Russian and Soviet history, materiality, history of knowledge, STS, public history, digital humanities.
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