David C. Engerman

Ph.D, University of California-Berkeley, 1998;
M.A. Rutgers University, 1991; B.A.
Swarthmore College, 1988
Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University
Center Associate, Davis Center

Contact Information
781.736.2281 (work)
engerman@brandeis.edu

Research Interests
History of US-Soviet relations; history of American radicalism; Russia/USSR in American life and thought.

Current Projects
Know your enemy: American Sovietology and the making of the Cold War."Ideology and US-Soviet Relations, 1917-62" for Cambridge History of the Cold War.

Selected Publications
Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development. Harvard University Press, 2003.

Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War. Forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press, April 2003. (Co-editor and contributor.)

The God That Failed: Six Studies of Communism. Columbia University Press, 2001. (Wrote new Foreword.)

"Modernization from the Other Shore: American Observers and the Costs of Soviet Economic Development," American Historical Review 105:2 (April 2000): 383-416.

"William Henry Chamberlin and Russia's Revolt against Western Civilization," Russian History/Histoire Russe 26:1 (Spring 1999): 45-64.

"New Society, New Scholarship: Soviet Studies Programmes in Interwar America," Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy 37:1 (Spring 1999): 25-43.

"Economic Reconstruction in Soviet Russia: The Courting of Herbert Hoover in 1922," International History Review 19:4 (November 1997): 836-47.

"Amerikanskaia pomoshch’ Rossii, 1921-1923 gg.: konflikty i sotrudnichestvo,” Amerikanskii ezhegodnik 1995, 192-214; with Nana Tsikhelashvili.

"A Research Agenda for the History of Tourism as a Foreign Relation: Towards an International Social History," American Studies International, 32:2 (October 1994): 3-31.