Stephen M. Norris
Contact
Titles
- Associate Professor of History
- Director, Film Studies Program
- Faculty Associate, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
Education
- PhD 2002, University of Virginia
- MA, University of Virginia
- BA, Millikin University
Teaching and Research Interests
- Russian cultural history since 1800
- Nationalism
- Visual history
Recently taught graduate courses
- HST 428/528 Russia’s War and Peace
- HST 720 Graduate Colloquium: History and Imagery in Russia and Europe
Current/recent graduate student research
- Zachary Hoffman, "Neither This Ancient Earth, Nor Ancient Rus' Has Passed On: A Microhistorical Biography of Ivan Bunin," in progress
- Onur Isci, “Wartime Propaganda and the Legacies of Defeat: The Russian and Ottoman Popular Presses in the War of 1877-78,” 2007
- Audra Yoder, “Making Tea Russian: The Samovar and Russian National Identity, 1832-1901,” 2009
Selected Publications
- A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945, Northern Illinois University Press, 2006
- Editor, with Zara M. Torlone, Insiders and Outsiders in Russian Cinema, Indiana University Press, 2008
- Editor, with Helena Goscilo, Preserving Petersburg: History, Memory, Nostalgia, Indiana University Press, 2008
- “The Old Ladies of Post-Communism: Ginnady Sidorov’s Starukhi (2003) and the Fate of Russia,” The Russian Review 67/4, October 2008
Selected Grants and Awards
- Miami University Associate Student Government Outstanding Professor Award, 2006
Work in Progress
Dr. Norris’s work studies images and propaganda in Russia during the 19 th and 20 th centuries. His current book projects include Blockbuster History: Post-Soviet Films and the Uses of the Past; The Visual Worlds of Communism: Boris Efimov and the Soviet Century; and a book co-edited with Willard Sunderland entitled People of Empire: Lives of Culture and Power in Russian Eurasia, 1500-Present.
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