Benjamin Bamberger, PhD
Lecturer
Contact
Hegelbau (ground floor), Wilhelmstr. 36, D-72074 Tübingen
benjamin.bamberger@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).