David Hoffmann

Professor
History
212 Dulles Hall
614.292.5576
hoffmann.218@osu.edu

Education
B.A., Lawrence University, History (1983)
M.A., Columbia University, Russian History (1986)
Ph.D., Columbia University, Russian History (1990)

Teaching/Research
Dr. Hoffmann is a specialist in Russian and Soviet history, with a particular focus on the political, social, and cultural history of Stalinism.

Selected Publications
Cultivating the Masses: Soviet Social Interventionism in its International Context, 1914-1939 (Cornell University Press, forthcoming)

"The Causes and Consequences of Stalinism" (Journal of Contemporary History, 2009)

"Utopian Biopolitics: Reproductive Policies, Gender Roles, and Sexuality in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union," in Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared, ed. by Sheila Fitzpatrick and Michael Geyer (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917-1941 (Cornell University Press, 2003)

Stalinism, ed. (Blackwell Publishers, 2002)

Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices, ed. with Yanni Kotsonis (Macmillan Press, 2000)

Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941 (Cornell University Press, 1994)

Honors, Awards, and Service
National Fellowship, Stanford University Hoover Institution (2000-01)
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Fellowship (1999)
Woodrow Wilson Center Kennan Institute Research Fellowship (1997)
Ohio Academy of History Book Award (1995)

Mershon Project
Cultivating the Masses: Soviet State Intervention in its International Context, 1914-39

David Hoffmann
Professor of History
The Ohio State University