Andrew Jenks, October 10
The Russian History Seminar will hold its second meeting of the 2014-2015 academic year on Friday, October 10, 5:00pm-6:15pm in ICC 662 on the Georgetown University campus. Andrew Jenks will present his paper, "Transnational History and Space-Age Collaboration, 1972–1985."
Andrew Jenks is Professor at California State University at Long Beach and has recently begun an appointment as an editor of Kritika. He is author of three books: The Cosmonaut Who Couldn’t Stop Smiling: the Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin (Northern Illinois University Press, 2012); The Perils of Progress: Environmental Disasters in the Twentieth Century (Prentice-Hall, 2010); and Russia in a Box: Art and Identity in an Age of Revolution (Northern Illinois University Press, 2005). He has also published, among other works, “Iconography, Power, and Expertise in Imperial Russia,” The Donald W. Treadgold Papers in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies no. 42 (June 2004); and “From Center to Periphery: Palekh and Indigenization in the Russian Heartland, 1917-1933,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 3 (Summer 2002): 427-58.