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
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