Claudia Verhoeven
Assistant Professor
Office: 304 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-1876
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: cv89@cornell.edu
Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:00; or by appointment
Research and Teaching Statement
Claudia Verhoeven is a historian of modern Russia (especially Imperial) and Europe (especially 19th century) whose primary research interest is the history of terrorism and related forms of political violence. Her first book, a cultural/micro-history of the 1866 attempted assassination of Tsar Alexander II, was published earlier this year: The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism. She is also the co-editor, with Carola Dietze, of the forthcoming anthology Terrorism and Modernity: Global Perspectives on Nineteenth Century Political Violence. For her new project, she continues to do research on terrorism, but with a special emphasis on its temporality. Her other interests include the revolutionary tradition; literature; historiography and historical method; and Russian, German, and European cultural-intellectual history.
From 2006-2009, she was assistant professor of modern European history at George Mason University. She has taught courses on the cultural history of European terrorism, 19th century Europe, History and Literature, and modern European history and historiography.
Courses
| Fall 2009: | 2272 |
Study of Terrorism Syllabus |
|---|---|---|
2970 |
Imperial Russa: Peter the Great to the Revolution of 1917 Syllabus | |
| Spring 2010: | 3621 |
Nineteenth Century Europe |
4671 |
Russian Revolutionary Intelligentsia |
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 2004
M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, 1999
B.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1994
Recent Publications and Awards
Publications
The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism. Cornell University Press, 2009.
“Court Files,” in Reading Primary Sources. The Interpretation of Texts from 19th and 20th Century History, ed. Miriam Dobson and Benjamin Ziemann. Routledge, 2008.
“The Making of Russian Revolutionary Terrorism,” in Enemies of Humanity: The Nineteenth-Century War on Terrorism, ed. Isaac Land. Palgrave-MacMillan, 2008.
“The ‘German Autumn’ Between Mallorca and Mogadishu,” H-German, December 4, 2007.
Awards
Jean Monnet Fellowship: Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute 2007-2008
Franklin Research Grant: American Philosophical Society 2006
Summer Teaching Fellowship: National Endowment of the Humanities 2005
Chancellor’s Dissertation Year Fellowship: Graduate Division, UCLA 2002-2003
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship 2001-2002