Brendan McElmeel (he/him/his)

Doctoral Candidate
headshot (photography credit to J. Bachman)

Contact Information

bmcel@uw.edu
Smith 103A
Office Hours
Wednesdays, 12-1pm or by appointment.

Fields of Interest

20th Century Comparative Gender Intellectual History Law Modern Europe Russia Sexuality Social History Socialism and Post-Socialism Soviet Union

Biography

Ph.D., History, University of Washington (in progress, projected completion in 2024)
M.A., Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009
B.A., History, Michigan State University, 2006
B.A., Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, Michigan State University, 2006

Awards

Luckie Agee Waller Fellowship (2022)
Cohen-Tucker Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2021-2022, declined)
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Summer Writing Program (2021)
American Councils Academic Fellowship in Russia (2021)
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award (2019-2020)
Doctor Ebba Dahlin Fellowship, UW History Department (2020)
Mellon Fellowship for Reaching New Publics in the Humanities (2017-2018)
Hannouer Recruitment Fellowship, UW History Department (2016-2017)

Research

Selected Research

Courses Taught

Autumn 2021

Spring 2021

Winter 2021

Additional Courses

Spring 2024

HSTAA 353: Class, Labor and Capitalism

Winter 2024

ENGL 198A: Interdisciplinary Writing in the Social Sciences

Autumn 2024

ENGL 298B: Interdisciplinary Writing in the Social Sciences

Winter 2023

ENGL 298C: Intermediate Interdisciplinary Writing in the Social Sciences

Autumn 2023

HSTRY 570: Teaching History

Winter 2022

ENGL 198A: Interdisciplinary Writing in the Social Sciences

Autumn 2022

HSTRY 570: Teaching History

Spring 2021

HST 498A: Colloquium in History (The Sexual Revolution[s] in Comparative Perspective)

Winter 2021

HSTAA 105A: Peoples of the United States

Affiliations

Professional Affiliations
The Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies
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