Summary
Barbara Walker has published on a broad range of historical topics in the area of Russian and w88 casino games 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: w88 casino games 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 w88 casino games Union, including early electronic computer designers, U.S.-w88 casino games research exchange scholars, journalists and w88 casino games 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 casino games has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Thomas Watson Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the International w88 casino games 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 casino games Interests
- Russian and Soviet w88 casino games
- Cold War w88 casino games
- w88 casino games of networks and networking
- w88 casino games of technology
Courses Taught
- Core w88 casino games 202: The Modern World
- Core w88 casino games 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 casino games and Writing
- Hist. 300A: Digitizing w88 casino games
- w88 casino games 469/669, Topics in Russian and Soviet w88 casino games (including such special topics as "Sputnik, Spies, and Soviet Science," "Technology, Propaganda and Culture in Russian w88 casino games," "The World of Joseph Stalin," and "Literature and Society in Russian w88 casino games")
- Hist. 712: Seminar in Modern European w88 casino games
- Hist. 780: Seminar in Historical Methodology (w88 casino games Design)
- Undergraduate and graduate independent study courses as called for
Education
- Ph.D., Russian and Soviet w88 casino games, University of Michigan, 1994
- M.A., Interdisciplinary w88 casino games and East European Studies, Yale University, 1986
- B.A., English Literature, Bowdoin College, 1981