Stephen Brain

Soviet/Russian History
Environmental History, Forest History

223 Allen Hall
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Phone: 662-325-3604
E-mail: scbrain@history.msstate.edu

Education
Academic Career
Publications
Honors and Awards
Research Experience
Professional Affiliations


Education:
  • Ph.D. in History, University of California-Berleley, May 2007.
    Advisor: Yuri Slezkine
    Transforming Nature: The Russian Forest and the Soviet State, 1900-1953, Ph.D. dissertation
  • Master of Arts in Humanities, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 2000.
  • Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Ecology, 1994
Academic Career:
  • Graduate Student Instructor/Reader, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-06
  • Instructor, Cerro Coso Community College, 2001-06
Publications:
  • Song of the Forest: Russian Forestry and Stalin's Environmentalism, (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, October 2011.ISBN: 978-08-229-61659.
  • "The Christian Environmental Ethic of the Russian Pomor," Ecozona: The European Journal of Literature, Culture and the Environment Vol. 2, No. 2 (Autumn 2011).
  • "Stalin's Environmentalism," Russian Review Vol. 69, no. 1 (January 2010): 03-118.
  • "The Great Stalin Plan for the Transformation of Nature," Environmental History Vol 15, no. 4 (October 2010): 1-31.
  • "America Is Worth Saving,  Cedric Belfrage,  and Dreiser Looks at Russia,"  A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia, ed. Keith Newlin (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003).

Honors and Awards:
  • Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (Davis Center for Russian Studies), Fall 2010
  • National Science Foundation Working Group, Arkhangel'sk, Russia, Summer 2010
  • George Breslauer Dissertation Fellowship, 2006
  • Fulbright Fellowship, Moscow, Russia, 2005-2006
  • FLAS Fellowship, 2002-2003
  • University of Arizona Graduate College Fellowship, 2001
Research Experience:
  • Eighteen-month research trip in Moscow, Russia; work in the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), the Russian State Economic Archive (RGAE), the Moscow Oblast Regional Archive (TsGAMO), and the Archive of the Communist Party (RGASPI).
Professional Affiliations:
  • Russian Academy of Sciences
  • Fellow, Institute of History of Science and Technology, 2005-2006.
  • American Society of Environmental Historians
  • American Historical Association
  • Alpha Zeta Agricultural Honors Society