Barbara Walker

Barbara Walker teaches in the history department, where she specializes in twentieth-century Russia. When she is not teaching Core Humanities 202, she offers courses on Russian history before 1900, 20th-century Russia and the Soviet Union, women in Russian history, and "Nomads to Nations in Central Eurasia." She also occasionally teaches courses on Eastern Europe. Her research is on Russian intellectuals and intellectual life in the twentieth century, with a special interest in such cultural topics as the formation of the Stalinist cult of personality. Her approach to history, as also to the Core Humanities course, is through the prism of culture, focusing on the world views and the habits of those of other times and places than our own.

Barbara Walker
Barbara Walker teaches in the history department, where she specializes in twentieth-century Russia. When she is not teaching Core Humanities 202, she offers courses on Russian history before 1900, 20th-century Russia and the Soviet Union, women in Russian history, and "Nomads to Nations in Central Eurasia." She also occasionally teaches courses on Eastern Europe. Her research is on Russian intellectuals and intellectual life in the twentieth century, with a special interest in such cultural topics as the formation of the Stalinist cult of personality. Her approach to history, as also to the Core Humanities course, is through the prism of culture, focusing on the world views and the habits of those of other times and places than our own.
	Core Humanities Faculty