Thomas Clayton Black

Department of History
Washington College
300 Washington Avenue
Chestertown, Maryland 21620
(410) 778-7766
clayton.black@washcoll.edu

Education:

PhD, Indiana University, 1996
Dissertation: "Manufacturing Communists: 'Krasnyi Putilovets' and the Politics of Soviet Industrialization, 1923-1932"
BA, Denison University, 1985

Employment:

Assistant Professor of History, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland
August, 1996-Present
Editorial Assistant, American Historical Review
July 1988-July 1990; May 1993-May 1996

Awards and Honors:

Washington College Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Teaching, 2001
Christian A. Johnson Junior Sabbatical Fellowship, Washington College, 2000
Washington College Faculty Enhancement Award, 1999
Mellon Grant for Innovations in Classroom Technology Use, 1999
Mellon Grant for Innovations in Classroom Technology Use, 1998
History Department Grant-In-Aid, Indiana University, 1993
History Department Fellowship, Indiana University, 1992
International Research and Exchanges Board Long-Term Research Grant
(USSR), 1990-1991
Foreign Language Area Scholarship, Summer 1986 (Russian)
Phi Beta Kappa, 1986
Graduation with Honors, Denison University, 1985

Courses Taught:

History 426: Modern China, 1800-1989
History 426: Modern Japan
History 425: The Road to Total War: World History 1900-1945
History 425: Europe in the Age of the Dictators, 1919-1945
History 425: Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Genocide
History 392: Modern Russia, 1861-Present
History 391: Modern Russia, 988-1861
History 360: Modern Germany, 1848-Present
History 104: World History, 1815-Present
History 103: World History, 1500-1815
CNW 213: The Holocaust and Twentieth-Century Genocide

Publications:

"Legitimacy, Succession, and the Concentration of Industry: Trotsky and the Crisis of 1923 Re-examined," Russian History/Histoire Russe (forthcoming).

"Answering for Bacchanalia: Management, Authority, and the Putilov Tractor Program, 1928-1930," The Carl Beck Papers (forthcoming).

"Party Crisis and the Factory Shop Floor: Krasnyi Putilovets and the Leningrad Opposition, 1925-26," Europe-Asia Studies 46, No. 1 (1994): 107-26

"M. N. Roy," "Yalta Conference," and "Potsdam Conference," entries in The Encyclopedia of Colonialism, ed. Melvin E. Page. New York: East River Books (forthcoming).

Reviews:

Review of Andrea Graziosi, A New, Peculiar State: Explorations in Soviet History, 1917-1937(Westport, Conn., 2000), Russian History/Histoire Russe (forthcoming).

Review of Amy Knight, Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery (New York: Hill and Wang, 1999), The Historian (forthcoming).

Review of Michael David-Fox, Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 (Ithaca, 1997), East-West Education 19, Nos. 1-2 (1998-2000): 151-54.

Review of Bruce A. Elleman, Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917-1927 (Armonk, N.Y., 1997), H-Net Reviews, April 2000

Review of Karen Barkey and Mark von Hagen, editors, After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building; The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman, and Habsburg Empires (Boulder, Colo., 1997), Ethnos-Nation: Eine Europäische Zeitschrift 7 (1999), No. 1

Review of Kenneth M. Straus, Factory and Community in Stalin's Russia: The Making of an Industrial Working Class (Pittsburgh, 1997), Russian Review 58, No. 3 (July, 1999): 511-12.

Review of David R. Shearer, Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia 1926-1934 (Ithaca, 1996), H-Net Reviews, January 1998

Review of David L. Hoffmann, Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941 (Ithaca, 1994), H-Net Reviews, March 4, 1995

Scholarly Papers:

Roundtable participant, "NEP Revisited: New Perspectives on Abiding Questions," 33d Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 17, 2001

"The Factory in Place of the Worker: Istoriia Fabrik i Zavodov and Soviet Iconography," Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, Princeton University, March 25, 2000

"L.D. Trotsky and the Concentration of Industry, 1923," 31st Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, November 18-21, 1999

"Icon of Industry: The Image of Krasnyi Putilovets, 1917-1933," 28th Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, November 14-17, 1996

"Coercion or Enthusiasm? Putilov and the Case of the 12,000 Tractors," 24th Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, November 17-20, 1994

"Party Crisis and the Factory Shop Floor: Krasnyi Putilovets and the Leningrad Opposition, 1925-26," Midwest Russian History Colloquium, Chicago, October 17-18, 1992

Related Professional Activities:

Presentation, "Fantasies of Future War: Soviet Russia in the Age of Anxiety, 1919-29," O'Neill Literary House Lecture Series, October 3, 2001

Participant, National Humanities Center, 2001 DuPont Summer Seminar, "Biography," June 3-22, 2001

Panel Discussant, "Visual Culture and the Factory, 1917-1932," 31st Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, Missouri, November 20, 1999

Panel Chair, "Popular Attitudes during the Siege of Leningrad," 29th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Seattle, Wash., November 22, 1998

Presentation, "Russia 1998: The Revolution Continues," O'Neill Literary House Monday Lecture Series, November 9, 1998

Research trip, August, 1997. Three weeks in St. Petersburg, Russia, conducting research at the Saltykov-Shchedrin Public Library on the topic of Soviet Labor and the War Scare of 1927

Participant, National Humanities Center 1997 DuPont Summer Seminar, "Transmitting the Hurt: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Genocide in the Late Twentieth Century," June 1-20, 1997

Professional Associations:

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
The Atlantic Council of the United States