Steven Barnes
Assistant Professor and Ph.D. Graduate Director
Steven A. Barnes joined the George Mason University faculty in 2004. He received his Ph.D. in Russian, Soviet, and East European history from Stanford University in 2003. His dissertation, entitled “Soviet Society Confined: The Gulag in the Karaganda Region of Kazakhstan, 1930s-1950s,” reconsiders the history of the Soviet system of forced labor concentration camps and internal exile through memoirs and recently opened archives of the Gulag system. He has done field research in Russia and Kazakhstan. Dr. Barnes’ research has been published in the journals Slavic Review, Kritika, and International Labor and Working Class History. He is currently writing a book on the history of the Gulag. Additionally, with the National Parks Service and the Gulag Museum in Perm, Russia, he is working on a traveling museum exhibit on the history of the Gulag that opened at Ellis Island in May 2006. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and working with the Center for History and New Media, Dr. Barnes is building a website on the history of the Gulag. Information on both these projects can be found at Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives.
Research Interests
Russian History, the Soviet Gulag, the Cold War
Office Hours (Fall 2008)
R 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Contact
Email: sbarnes3@gmu.edu
Phone: 703.993.1247
Office: Robinson Hall B 226A