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Philip Shashko, Professor

Office: Holton Hall Room 328
Phone: (414) 229-4207
E-mail: pshashko@uwm.edu

Degree:
Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1969

Research Interests:
Professor Shashko's research interests and teaching are in Russian/Soviet and Southeast European social and intellectual history since the eighteenth century. He has taught courses in early Russian, Imperial and Soviet history and the history of the Balkans since 1453. He has also taught honor seminars, and historical methods for undergraduate as well as historical research methods, historiography, and the theory of history seminars for graduate students. He is teaching a course on the City in Historiography Literature and the Arts and Intellectuals and the City for USP.

Publications:
"Visible Macedonians Hidden in Plain Sight: From Incomprehensible Tongue to Forbidden Language," in Deloto na Krste Misirkov (Skopje, 2004)

"Liuben Karavelov on Bulgarian-Romanian Interaction: Building Bridges to the Future over Troubled Waters," Studia Balcanica 24 (2003): 146-67.

"The Emergence of the Macedonian Nation: Images and Interpretations in American and British Reference Works, 1945-1991" in Studies in Macedonian Language, Literature and Culture; Proceedings of the First North American - Macedonian Conference on Macedonian Studies Ann Arbor, 1991, edited by Benjamin Stolz (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1995), 177-230.

"The Free and Objective Consideration of Public Affairs: A Bulgarian View of Glasnost, 1868," East European Quarterly, XXVI, No. 4, (1993)

"American Impressions of Athens in the Nineteenth Century," Armos III, (1991)

"Elias Riggs: A Man with a Mission," Spektur, 75 (1991)

"A Recent Discovery: The Elias Riggs Translations from Bulgarski Narodni Pesni by the Miladinov Brothers," Etudes Balkanique, 1 (1990)

"From the Other Shore: The American Perspective of the Eastern Question and the Bulgarian Crisis of 1876," Bulgarian Historical Review, 4 (1990)

"Tradition and Change in the Thought of Ljuben Karavelov," in American Contributions to the Tenth International Congress of Slavists: Literatures (1988)

Currently, he is working on:

"Glasnost: The Quest for Civil Society in Russia from Peter the Great to the Revolutions of 1917"

"The Interdiction of Language and the Crime of Song: Interrogating Legal Document and Other Texts"

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