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About Steven Seegel
I'm a writer, translator, and historian, a Professor of Slavic and Eurasian studies at The University of Texas at Austin (USA), and a host of featured author podcasts at New Books Network. My recent books are Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2018), Ukraine under Western Eyes (Harvard University Press, 2013), and Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2012).Steven Seegel is Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
NBN Episodes hosted by Steven:
August 20, 2024
Men Under Fire
In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are typically studied as Czechs, rarely as sold…
January 10, 2024
Connections and Content
In Connections and Content: Reflections on Networks and the History of Cartography (ESRI Press, 2019), cartographic cogitator Mark Monmonier shares hi…
January 2, 2024
Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities
In Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities: Race Science and the Making of Polishness on the Fringes of the German Empire, 1840-1920 (Ohio University P…
January 1, 2024
Yellow Star, Red Star
In her new book Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Cornell University Press, 2019) Jelena Subotić asks why Holocaust memory…
June 17, 2022
Geographies of Nationhood
Geographies of Nationhood: Cartography, Science, and Society in the Russian Imperial Baltic (Oxford UP, 2022) examines the meteoric rise of ethnograph…
April 5, 2022
Poland in a Colonial World Order
Poland in a Colonial World Order: Adjustments and Aspirations, 1918-1939 (Routledge, 2021) is a study of the interwar Polish state and empire building…
March 29, 2022
Witchcraft in Russia and Ukraine, 1000-1900
This sourcebook provides the first systematic overview of witchcraft laws and trials in Russia and Ukraine from medieval times to the late nineteenth …
February 25, 2022
States of Liberation
States of Liberation: Gay Men Between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (U Toronto Press, 2022) traces the paths of gay men in East and W…
February 1, 2022
Unlikely Allies
Unlikely Allies: Nazi German and Ukrainian Nationalist Collaboration in the General Government During World War II (Purdue UP, 2021) offers the first …
January 24, 2022
A Time to Gather
How do people link the past to the present, marking continuity in the face of the fundamental discontinuities of history? A Time to Gather: Archives a…
December 24, 2021
Queer Roma
Lucie Fremlova's book Queer Roma (Routledge, 2021) offers in-depth insight into the lives of queer Roma, thus providing rich evidence of the heterogen…
December 16, 2021
Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia
Hoping to unite all of humankind and revolutionize the world, Ludwik Zamenhof launched a new international language called Esperanto from late imperia…
November 23, 2021
Snapshots of the Soul
Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture (Cornell UP, 2021) considers how photography has shaped Russian poetry from t…
October 20, 2021
All Future Plunges to the Past
All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature (Cornell UP, 2021) explores how Russian writers from the mid-1920s on have read and …
October 12, 2021
Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust
One quarter of all Holocaust victims lived on the territory that now forms Ukraine, yet the Holocaust there has not received due attention. John-Paul …
October 6, 2021
A Loss
This book is the story of one death among many in the war in eastern Ukraine. Its author is a historian of war whose brother was killed at the frontli…
October 1, 2021
The Carpathians
Patrice M. Dabrowski's book The Carpathians: Discovering the Highlands of Poland and Ukraine (Northern Illinois UP, 2021) tells story of how the Tatra…
September 27, 2021
From Odessa with Love
The Tashkent-born Russian-American literary critic, editor, essayist, and journalist Vladislav Davidzon has been covering post-Soviet Ukraine for the …
September 24, 2021
Time of Changes
Mark Baker is an American journalist and travel writer. In the 1980s, he lived in Vienna and reported on the former Eastern bloc for Business Internat…
September 20, 2021
Writing Resistance
In 1884, sixty-eight prisoners convicted of terrorism and revolutionary activity were transferred to a new maximum-security prison at Shlissel'burg Fo…
August 11, 2021
Revolution and Political Violence in Central Europe
In the wake of the First World War and Russian Revolutions, Central Europeans in 1919 faced a world of possibilities, threats, and extreme contrasts. …
July 27, 2021
CABBAGE AND CAVIAR
When people think of Russian food, they generally think either of the opulent luxury of the tsarist aristocracy or of post-Soviet elites, signified ab…
July 9, 2021
Ukraine Calling
Marta Dyczok's book Ukraine Calling: A Kaleidoscope from Hromadske Radio 2016-2019 (Ibidem Press, 2021) is like a time capsule containing a selection …
July 8, 2021
Germany's Urban Frontiers
In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier …