Philip Shashko

  • Professor Emeritus, History

Education

  • PhD, University of Michigan, 1969
  • MA, University of California, Berkeley, 1961
  • BA, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1960

Courses Taught

  • Hist 192 - Freshman Seminar
  • Hist 206 - Europe and the Modern World: 1815 to the Present
  • Hist 293 - Seminar on Historical Method: Theory and Approach
  • Hist 341 - Imperial Russia: From Despotism to the Bolshevik Revolution
  • Hist 343 - The Sovient Union: From Lenin to Gorbachev
  • Hist 399 - Honors Seminar
  • Hist 345 - The Modern Balkans: Nationalism, War, and Democracy
  • Hist 600 - Seminar in History: Nationalism; Cold War; The "Other" in Travelers' Accounts
  • Hist 712 - Historiography and Theory of History
  • Hist 713 - Historical Research Methods
  • Hist 850 - Colloquium in European History
  • Hist 950 - Seminar in European History
  • Hist 965 - Seminar in Modern European Intellectual History
  • Hist 970 - Seminar in Modern European Political History

Teaching Interests

  • Russian/Soviet History
  • Southeast Europe
  • Undergraduate and Graduate methodology and historiography seminars Graduate seminars on political, social and intellectual l history
  • Cold War
  • Nationalism

Research Interests

  • Modern Balkan history and culture
  • Russian and Balkan political and intellectual movements
  • Folklore, local history

Related Activities

  • Member of the Executive Council of the American Association for Southeast European Studies, l975-l978
  • Vice President, Bulgarian Studies Association, 1974-1978
  • Member, Editorial Board, Urbanism Past and Present, 1976-1978
  • Managing Editor, responsible for Comparative Intellectual/Cultural Studies of Southeastern Europe/L'Europe du Sud Est, 1981-1998