Havighurst Postdoctoral Fellows 2007-08
2009-10
Joshua First is a research fellow with the Havighurst Center for the 2009-10 academic year. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan in 2008. His dissertation, “Scenes of Belonging: Cinema and the Nationality Question in Soviet Ukraine during the Long 1960s,” explores questions of national identity and multiculturalism in the Soviet Union after Stalin. First has also published articles in Kritika, Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, and Kinokultura on popular cinema and audience politics in the Soviet Union. Joshua is now working on an article about ethnographic discourse in Ukrainian “Poetic Cinema” during the 1960s, and adapting his dissertation for publication as a monograph.
Past Postdoctoral Fellows
