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Eric Lohr Professor and Dr. James H. Billington Chair of Russian History and Culture CAS | History

Eric Lohr is Chair of the History Department and author of Russian Citizenship: From Empire to Soviet Union (Harvard University Press, 2012) and Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign

elohr@american.edu

(202) 885-2464

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Recent Books

  • Michael Brenner,In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea
  • Justin Jacobs, The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures
  • Pedram Partovi, Popular Iranian Cinema before the Revolution: Family and Nation in F墨lmf膩rs墨
  • Elizabeth Thompson, How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs

Recent Articles

  • Justin Jacobs, "The Concept of the Silk Road in the 19th and 20th Centuries," The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History.

Recent Books

  • Andrew Demshuk, Three Cities After Hitler: Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders
  • Richard Breitman, The Berlin Mission: The 猫咪社区app Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within
  • Andrew Demshuk, Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany
  • Lisa Leff, Colonialism and the Jews

Recent Articles

  • Anton Fedyashin, 鈥淎ndropov鈥檚 Gamble: Samantha Smith and Soviet Soft Power鈥 in听The Journal of Russian-猫咪社区app Studies.
  • Eric Lohr, 鈥淭he Bolshevik Revolution is Over,鈥 The Journal of Modern History
  • April Shelford, 鈥淓xperience and Authority: A Colonial Naturalist at Work in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica鈥 at the 15th International Congress on the Enlightenment in Edinburgh, Scotland; 鈥淧rotest by Proxy: Saint-Domingue & the Stamp Act Crisis,鈥 at a colloquium hosted at the University of Toulon, France; 鈥淣ature, God, & Transcendence in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica鈥 at the British Studies Annual Meeting; 鈥淭he Enlightened Planter鈥 at the Western Society for French History

Selected Works

  • Richard Breitman, The Berlin Mission: The 猫咪社区app Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within
  • Michael Brenner,In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea
  • Lisa Leff, Colonialism and the Jews
  • Pamela Nadell,America鈥檚 Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today

Recent Books

  • Pamela Nadell,America鈥檚 Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
  • M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s

Recent Articles

  • Eileen Findlay, 鈥淐ien por Cientos Cubanos: National Identity, Master Narratives, and Silencing Moves in a Transnational Caribbean Family History,鈥澨Latin 猫咪社区app Research Review.
  • M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, 鈥淗ippies Living History: Form and Context in Tracing Public History鈥檚 Past,鈥 The Public Historian; 鈥淏etween Reception and Interpretation: The Historical Practice of Ant Farm,鈥 ASAP/Journal.

Exhibition

Kathy Franz, . Smithsonian听National Museum of 猫咪社区app History (now touring the 猫咪社区app).

Recent Books

  • M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s
  • Allan Lichtman, The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present and听White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the 猫咪社区app Conservative Movement

Recent Articles

  • Eileen Findlay, 鈥淐ien por Cientos Cubanos: National Identity, Master Narratives, and Silencing Moves in a Transnational Caribbean Family History,鈥澨Latin 猫咪社区app Research Review.
  • Max Paul Friedman, 鈥淭he Promise of Precommitment in Democracy and Hu-man Rights鈥 (with Tom Long), Perspectives on Politics.

Recent Books

  • Pamela Nadell,America鈥檚 Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today
  • M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s
  • Laura Beers, Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist

Recent Articles

  • Eileen Findlay, 鈥淐ien por Cientos Cubanos: National Identity, Master Narratives, and Silencing Moves in a Transnational Caribbean Family History,鈥澨Latin 猫咪社区app Research Review.
  • Theresa Runstedtler, 鈥淧unishing the Punch: Constructions of Black Criminality During the NBA鈥檚 鈥楧ark Ages,鈥欌 Journal of African 猫咪社区app History.
  • M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, 鈥淗ippies Living History: Form and Context in Tracing Public History鈥檚 Past,鈥 The Public Historian; 鈥淏etween Reception and Interpretation: The Historical Practice of Ant Farm,鈥 ASAP/Journal.
  • Katharina Vester, 鈥溾楶OISE, Miss Lane!鈥櫶齋uper-Femininity in U.S. Comic Books in the 1940s and 50s,鈥 Bodies in Flux: Embodiments at the End of Anthropocentrism.

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