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Brendan McElmeel (he/him/his)

Doctoral Candidate

Contact Information

bmcel@uw.edu

Office Hours: 

Please contact to set up a virtual appointment.

Fields of Interest

20th CenturyComparative GenderIntellectual HistoryLawModern EuropeRussiaSexualitySocial HistorySocialism and Post-SocialismSoviet Union

Biography

Ph.D., History, University of Washington (in progress, projected completion in 2022)

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

• Brendan McElmeel, "Comrades in Love: Intimacy and Communist Morality in Soviet Institutions and Everyday Life, 1950s-1970s." PhD diss., University of Washington, (in progress).
  Adviser: Glennys Young
• "From Don Juan to Comrade Ivan: Educating the Young Men of the Urals for Love and Marriage, 1953-1964," Aspasia 15, 1 (2021) [forthcoming]

Courses Taught

Spring 2021

• HSTRY 498 A: Colloquium in History

Winter 2021

• HSTAA 105 AA: The Peoples of the United States
• HSTAA 105 AB: The Peoples of the United States

Autumn 2020

• HSTAM 235 AA: Myths and Mysteries of the Middle Ages
• HSTAM 235 AB: Myths and Mysteries of the Middle Ages
• HSTAM 235 AC: Myths and Mysteries of the Middle Ages

Winter 2019

• HSTEU 250 AA: Rome
• HSTEU 250 AB: Rome

Autumn 2018

• HSTAM 235 AA: Myths and Mysteries of the Middle Ages
• HSTAM 235 AC: Myths and Mysteries of the Middle Ages
• HSTAM 235 AE: Myths and Mysteries of the Middle Ages

Spring 2018

• HSTAA 337 AA: The Holocaust and American Life
• HSTAA 337 AB: The Holocaust and American Life
• HSTAA 337 AC: The Holocaust and American Life

Winter 2018

• HSTEU 250 AC: Rome
• HSTEU 250 AD: Rome

Affiliations

Professional Affiliations: 

The Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies

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