Alexey Golubev
Alexey Golubev
Associate Professor of Russian History

Alexey Golubev is a scholar of Russian history with a focus on social and cultural history of the twentieth century and an additional expertise in STS, transnational history, and digital history. He completed his Ph.D. in history at the University of British Columbia in 2016 and spent a year as a Banting Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Toronto before joining the UH Department of History in fall 2017. During the academic year 2020-21, he served as the , where he worked on a project on science communication in socialist and post-socialist societies. Dr. Golubev has previously taught at Petrozavodsk University in Russia and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Eastern Finland, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Freiburg in Germany. His research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Killam Trusts, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, German Historical Institute in Moscow, and the Russian Foundation for Humanities.
Research Interests
Russian and Soviet history, Europe in the twentieth century, materiality, history of knowledge, STS, transnational history, oral history, digital humanities.
Selected Publications
鈥,鈥 Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes 65.2 (2023): 190鈥204.
鈥淭he Working Body and Its Prostheses: Imagining Class for Soviet Children,鈥 in Serguei Oushakine and Marina Balina, eds., (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021), 467鈥487.
"," in Daria Gritsenko, Mari毛lle Wijermars, and Mikhail Kopotev, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies (London: Palgrave, 2021), 353鈥369 (open access).
. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020.
[The Twentieth Century: War Letters]. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2016. Co-edited with Serguei Oushakine. In Russian.
. In 2 vols. Oslo: PAX, 2016. Co-edited with Mats-Olov Olsson (chief editor), Fredrick Backman, Lars Olsson and Bj枚rn Norlin.
. Oslo: PAX, 2015. Co-edited with Lars Elenius (chief editor), Maria L盲hteenm盲ki and Hallvard Tjelmeland.
. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press; Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press, 2014. With Irina Takala.
Selected Presentations
鈥淭he Popularization of Doubt: Scientific Literacy and Alternative Forms of Knowledge in the Soviet Union after World War II,鈥 Fellows鈥 Presentation Series, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, February 17, 2021:
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Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies Interview Series Reimagining Russia, November 23, 2020:
Media Outreach
Alvin Powell, 鈥淎 Fact is No Match for a Martian,鈥 Radcliffe Magazine, Spring 2021, .
Interview about The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia for the New Books Network: .
鈥5 Questions about The Search for a Socialist El Dorado,鈥 an Oral History Review blog series: .