Stephen M. Norris

Contact

• norriss1@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 250 Upham Hall, Oxford Campus
• 513-529-2615
• Office hours: W 1-3

Titles

• Associate Professor of History
• Director, Film Studies Program
• Faculty Associate, Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
• Director of Undergraduate Studies in History

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 courses

• HST 122 Western Civilization
• HST 254 Introduction to Russian and Eurasian Studies
• HST 302 War and European Cinema
• HST 374 Russia to 1855
• HST 428/528 Russia’s War and Peace
• HST 720 Graduate Colloquium: History and Imagery in Russia and Europe

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.