History & Art History

Claudia Verhoeven received her Ph.D. from UCLA (2004), where her main areas of concentration were modern European cultural-intellectual, Russian, and German history. She was a Fulbright-Hays fellow and has held grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society. During the academic year 2007–2008, she was a Jean Monnet fellow at the European University Institute, where she was a member of the European Forum on “Political Violence and Terrorism.” Her first book, The Odd Man Karakozov: Imperial Russia, Modernity, and the Birth of Terrorism, will be published by Cornell UP in 2009.

Terrorism and political violence; the revolutionary tradition; literature; historical method; Russian, German, and European cultural-intellectual history.