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Alan Barenberg

Contact Information:

Email: alan.barenberg@ttu.edu
Office: 62 Holden Hall

Fields:

Soviet Union, Russia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Forced Labor
 

About Dr. Barenberg:

Alan Barenberg specializes in the history of the Soviet Union, with an emphasis on the social and economic history of the 1930s-1970s.  His current research focuses on the history of the arctic Russian community of Vorkuta, which was built in the 1930s as a Gulag camp complex but was transformed into a model Soviet city in the 1950s and 1960s.  His most recent publications include "Prisoners Without Borders: Zazonniki and the Transformation of Vorkuta after Stalin," in the Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (forthcoming, 2009), and “From Prisoners to Citizens?  The Experience of Ex-Prisoners in Vorkuta, 1953-1965,” a chapter in The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture in the 1950s and 1960s (Cornell University Press, forthcoming).  He is currently revising a manuscript provisionally titled, "From Prison Camp to Company Town: the Gulag and its Legacy in Vorkuta."

Dr. Barenberg teaches specialized courses on the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe, as well as surveys of Western and world civilizations.  He looks forward to continuing to develop his broad range of teaching interests at Texas Tech University.

Before coming to Texas Tech University, Dr. Barenberg received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (2007), an M.A. from the University of Chicago (2000), and a B.A. from Carleton College (1999).

Dr. Barenberg has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Council on Library and Information Resources Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources in the Humanities (2003-2004), a Social Science Research Council Eurasia Dissertation Fellowship, (2005-2006), and an Institute for Historical Studies Residential Fellowship (2010, declined).