David L. Hoffmann

David L. Hoffmann is Distinguished Professor (since 2017) of History Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio State University, United States, an expert in Russian, Soviet, and East European history. His other interests include Environment, Health, Technology, and Science, as well as Power, Culture, and the State.[1]

Education

B.A. in history, Lawrence University, 1983; M.A. in Russian history, Columbia University, 1986, Ph.D. in Russian history, Columbia University, 1990.[1]

Books

Monographs
  • (in progress) The Motherland Calls: War, Gender, and Memory in the Soviet Union, 1941-1991[1]
  • 2018: The Stalinist Era
    • Forthcoming: Russian translation
    • 2019: Spanish translation: La Era de Stalin
  • 2011: Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1914-1939
    • 2018: Russian translation: Vzrashchivanie mass: Modernoe gosudarstvo 2018 i Sovetskii sotsializm, 1914-1939
  • 2003: Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941
  • 1994: Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941 (Ohio Academy of History award for best book)[1]

Edited Volumes
  • 2002: Stalinism: The Essential Readings
  • 2000: Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices

Textbooks
  • 2003: The End of the Soviet Union, Experiencing the European Past series, Thomson Publishing
  • 2003: Stalinism, Experiencing the European Past series, Thomson Publishing
  • 2002: The Russian Revolution, Experiencing the European Past series, Thomson Publishing

Awards

His awards include: Ohio State University Distinguished Teaching Award (2013), Phi Alpha Theta Teaching Award (2010 and 2017), Ohio Academy of History Book Award (1995)[1] He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Mershon Center, Stanford University, Cornell University, and Harvard University.

Personal life

David Hoffmann was married to Patricia Weitsman, who died in 2014 of leukemia.[2] He is left with a daughter and a son.[3] His personal interests include travel abroad. [3]

References
  1. "David L. Hoffmann", a profile at the OSU website
  2. David Hoffmann, The Stalinist Era, section "Acknowledgments"
  3. "David Hoffmann", an interview at the ASEEES website
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