Lewis Siegelbaum, Michigan State University
History
Professor
East Lansing, Michigan
siegelba@msu.edu
Office:
(517) 432-8222 ext. 106
Bio/Research
I have been teaching Russian and European history at Michigan State University for more than a quarter of a century. I migrated from labor history to the history of consumption and material culture in the Soviet Union with some digressions along the way, and in the process shifted my attention fr...
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Bio/Research
I have been teaching Russian and European history at Michigan State University for more than a quarter of a century. I migrated from labor history to the history of consumption and material culture in the Soviet Union with some digressions along the way, and in the process shifted my attention from the Stalin era to the late Soviet period. I am co-author of the award-winning website Seventeen Moments in Soviet History (www.soviethistory.org), and my book, Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile (Cornell, 2008), was awarded two prizes by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. In 2011, I was appointed the Jack and Margaret Sweet Professor of History, a Russian edition of Cars for Comrades was published by ROSSPEN in Moscow and The Socialist Car: Automobility in the Eastern Bloc, a collection of 11 essays that I edited, was published by Cornell University Press. I also became editor-in-chief of REGION, a new journal based in Seoul, South Korea devoted to Russia and the former Eastern Bloc.
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