St. Mary's College of Maryland

Seminars & Events

On Thursday, January 24th, 4:15-5:15, Information Session for Study Tour to Peru! Kent Hall 213.

On Monday, February 18, 4:45 pm, Natasha Zaretsky, Ph.D. from Rutgers University, will speak on the "Legacies of Repression: Testimony, Citizenship, and Survival in Jewish Buenos Aires." Location TBA.

See the History Department Calendar for more information!

Program Highlight

Historic St. Mary's City

The Colonial History Concentration takes advantage of our special relationship with Historic St. Mary's City, the first capital of Maryland and a colonial archeological site, research facility, and museum.

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SMP Spotlight

Megan Anderson, "That Which Remains: The Interplay of Memory and Fiction in Holocaust Remembrance," 2011.

"My St. Mary's Project was truly the culminating experience for my undergraduate years.  The process brought me full circle; I was able to take a piece of literature I had read in my very first semester and keep discussing and applying theory to it in my last.  My SMP proved to me that I could sustain great ideas and discipline myself, even when I was discouraged.  Working so closely with my SMP mentor, Christine Adams, was really valuable, offering a one-on-one environment that I had never had with my regular classes.  I came away from my project knowing more about my topic than I thought I ever would -- and I still love it!"

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Thomas Barrett
Professor of History

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Departments: History
Office: Kent Hall, Room 203
Email: tmbarrett@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-4466

Bio:

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

  • PhD, Georgetown University (major: Russian history; minor: modern Europe), Washington, DC, May 1997; dissertation--"The Terek Cossacks and the North Caucasus Frontier, 1700-1860"
  • MA, Russian Area Studies (specializing in history), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1986
  • BS, Commerce, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1982
  • Czech Summer Language Institute, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Summer 2000
  • American Council of Teachers of Russian Summer Language Program, Herzen Institute, Leningrad and Pushkin Institute, Moscow, Summer 1987
  • Summer Russian Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Summer 1984

Spring 2013 Courses

  • HIST 105: Western Civilization
  • HIST 393: Topics: 20th Century Eastern Europe
  • HIST 405: Spies, Sputniks, and Fallout Shelters

Previous Courses

  • CORE 101: First Contact: Soviet and American Science Fiction during the Cold War
  • HIST 105: Western Civilization
  • HIST 268: Russian Civilization
  • HIST 342: History of the Soviet Union and Russia 
  • HIST 343: Medieval Russia
  • HIST 345: Imperial Russia
  • HIST 393: St. Petersburg: History, Myth, and Memory
  • HIST 395: Theories and Uses of History
  • HIST 435: World War II in Russian Culture
  • HIST 435: The Soviet Union during the Late Stalin Period and the Thaw
  • HIST 447: History of Russian and Soviet Cinema
  • HIST 475: Cold War Culture in the United States and the Soviet Union
  • HIST 475: Mass Culture and the Creation of the Modern
  • HIST 475: History of Silent Cinema 

Areas of Specialty

  • Russian and Soviet History
  • History of the Russian Empire
  • East European History
  • Russian Popular Music
  • Cossack History
  • Cold War Culture
  • Frontier History
  • Popular Culture

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St. Mary's College of Maryland
18952 E. Fisher Rd
St. Mary's City, MD 20686-3001
240-895-2000