Summary

Barbara Walker has published on a broad range of historical topics in the area of Russian and Soviet intellectual life and its economic foundations, social organization and culture. More recently, she has branched out to explore the nature of expertise, specifically “information expertise,” in her current book project,A War of Experts: Soviet and American knowledge networks in Cold War competition and collaboration. Her book will present the intertwined stories of a variety of lively and committed “information experts” in the Cold War United States and Soviet Union, including early electronic computer designers, U.S.-Soviet w88 online game exchange scholars, journalists and Soviet dissidents. Information professionals in the area of intelligence make their appearance too. The book focuses on the efforts of these ambitious, often passionate “experts” to multiply their numbers and to expand the influence of their expertise in this period. To accomplish these goals, they built on networks and traditions reaching back into the 19th century, in which lay the origins of the professionalization of expertise in many areas.

Walker’s w88 online game has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Thomas Watson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the International w88 online game Exchange (IREX), American Councils, the Hoover Institution at Stanford, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the University of Nevada, Reno, Core Humanities Program and others.

Watch Barbara's recent interview on Face the State.

w88 online game Interests

• Russian and Soviet w88 online game
• Cold War w88 online game
• w88 online game of networks and networking
• w88 online game of technology

Courses Taught

• Core Humanities 202: The Modern World
• Core Humanities 212: Science, Technology and Society in the Modern Era: Electricity and the Human Connection
• Hist. 296: Nomads to Nations in Inner Eurasia
• Hist. 300: Historical w88 online game and Writing
• Hist. 300A: Digitizing w88 online game
• w88 online game 469/669, Topics in Russian and Soviet w88 online game (including such special topics as "Sputnik, Spies, and Soviet Science," "Technology, Propaganda and Culture in Russian w88 online game," "The World of Joseph Stalin," and "Literature and Society in Russian w88 online game")
• Hist. 712: Seminar in Modern European w88 online game
• Hist. 780: Seminar in Historical Methodology (w88 online game Design)
• Undergraduate and w88 online game independent study courses as called for

Education

• Ph.D., Russian and Soviet w88 online game, University of Michigan, 1994
• M.A., Interdisciplinary w88 online game and East European Studies, Yale University, 1986
• B.A., English Literature, Bowdoin College, 1981