Robert W. Thurston

Contact

• thurstrw@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 273 Upham Hall
• 513-529-5136
• Office hours: T R 2-3:30
• Personal home page

Title

• Phillip R. Shriver Professor of History

Education

• PhD 1980, University of Michigan
• MA, University of Michigan
• BA, Northwestern University

Teaching and Research Interests

• Coffee
• Mass persecution
• Russia

Recently taught graduate courses

• HST 780 Graduate Colloquium: History of Commodities
• HST 780 Graduate Colloquium: History of Food in Europe and America

Current/recent graduate student research

• Lara McCoy Roslof, “The Political, Economic and Social Activities of the Russian Orthodox Church, 1991-2003, and the Reintegration of Russian Orthodoxy into Post-Soviet Russian National Identity,” 2004
• Jennifer Kassen, "Early Bolshevik Policy toward the Orthodox Church," in progress

Selected Publications

• “A Gallery of Coffee Advertising,” with “A Brief, Brief History of Coffee Advertising in America,” Roast, Spring 2009
• The Witch Hunts: A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America, Pearson Education, 2007
• Editor with Bernd Bonwetsch, The People’s War: Popular Response to World War II in the Soviet Union, University of Illinois Press, 2000
• Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1934-1941 , Yale University Press, 1996

Selected Grants and Awards

• Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program award, in conjunction with an Individual Advanced Research Opportunity award from the International Research and Exchanges Board, 2001

Work in Progress

Dr. Thurston has two book projects in progress: Lynching: American Mob Murder in Global Perspective; and the Social, Moral, and Economic Life of Coffee.