Education
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2009
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2009
Soviet History; history of psychiatry; Europe in the 20th century
Benjamin Zajicek joined the History Department in 2010. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Chicago for his dissertation, “Scientific Psychiatry in Stalin's Soviet Union: The Politics of Modern Medicine and the Struggle to Define ‘Pavlovian’ Psychiatry, 1939-1953.” His research focuses on the Soviet Union in the Stalin era, particularly the history of professions and the history of psychiatry. He is currently working on a book manuscript titled “Soviet Psychiatry under Stalin.”
Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
Awards and Honors
Social Sciences Research Council Eurasia Program Dissertation Write-up Fellowship,
2007-2008.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, US Department of Education, 2005-2006, 2001-2004.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Grant, US Department of Education, 2004-2005.
COURSES TAUGHT | |||
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FALL 2019 | |||
HIST 300 | Introduction to Historical Study | ||
HIST 441 | Germany: 1771-1945 | ||
HIST 453 | History of Soviet Russia from Kruschev to Gorbachev |