Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde

Benjamin Bamberger, PhD

Lecturer

Contact

Hegelbau (ground floor), Wilhelmstr. 36, D-72074 Tübingen

benjamin.bambergerspam prevention@philosophie.uni-tuebingen.de

Consultation-Hour

Appointment only. Please contact via mail.

April 2022 – August 2022
Teach @ Tübingen Fellow

University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

Lecturer for Casting the Caucasus: Tourism, Travel, and Leisure at the Edge of Empire

November 2020 – Present
Proposal Coordinator

Sponsored Programs Administration Center, Champaign, Illinois

2019
PhD in History

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Dissertation Title: “Mountains of Discontent: Georgian Alpinism and the Limits of Soviet

Equality, 1923-1955”

August 2020 – December 2020
Adjunct Lecturer

Instructor of record for REES 495/550 Seminar in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

May 2019 – November 2020
Programming and Outreach Assistant

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, Champaign, Illinois

August 2014 – July 2015
Editorial Assistant

Slavic Review Urbana, Illinois

June 2009 – August 2011
Business and Social Entrepreneurship Specialist

Peace Corps Volunteer, Marneuli, Georgia

Research Focuses

  • International Cold War History
  • 20th Century Foreign Relations
  • Soviet Empire
  • 20th Century Georgia
  • Mountaineering and Tourism,
  • Nations and Nationalism

Publications

  • “Tips, Bonuses, or Bribes: The Immoral Economy of Service Work in the Soviet 1960s,” co-authored with Diane Koenker. Russian Review Vol. 79, No. 2 (April 2020): 246-268.
  • “Georgian Alpinism in Svaneti: Recentering the Peripheral Alpinist through the Lens of Risk” Peripheral Histories Blog, April 18, 2019.
  • Introduction to English Translation of “The First Georgian Ascent of Mount Kazbek,” ed. Levan Ghambashidze, trans. Phillip Price (Tbilisi: Intelekti 2017).