Robert W. Thurston

Contact

• thurstrw@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 273 Upham Hall, Oxford Campus
• 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 courses

• HST 122 Western Civilization
• HST 206 Introduction to Historical Inquiry
• HST 348 Witch Crazes and Other “Great Fears” in Europe and America
• HST 360.B Cultural History of Anglo-America, 1885-1921
• HST 360.Y Cold War Culture
• HST 374 Russia to 1855
• HST 400 Senior Capstone: History of Commodities
• HST 780 Graduate Colloquium: History of Food in Europe and America

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.