Assistant Professor (2003)

Modern Eastern Europe; Poland; Postwar Europe

On Leave: Fall 2007-Spring 2008

Office Hours: Tuesday 12-1 and Thursday 11-12

Office: 216 Randall Hall

Phone: (434) 924-1439

Fax: (434) 924-7891

Email: lebowvirginia.edu

Education

B.A.: Yale 1991
M.A.: Columbia 1995
Ph.D.: Columbia 2001

 

Publications

Socialism in One City: Nowa Huta and the Transformation of Poland, 1949-1989, forthcoming from Princeton University Press.

Review of  J. Czaplicka, B. Ruble, et al., eds. Composing Urban History and the Constitution of Civic Identities (2003), Social History (Nov. 2005).    

“Stalinistische Stadtplanung und Sozialgeschichte: Wohnen in Nowa Huta 1949-1956,” in Schoenheit und Typenprojektierung. Der DDR-Staedtebau im internationalen Kontext, C. Bernhardt and T. Wolfes, eds. Erkner: Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung, 2005.

“Socialist Leisure in Time and Space: Hooliganism and Bikiniarstwo in Nowa Huta, 1949-1956,” in Christiane Brenner and Peter Heumos, eds., Sozialgeschichtliche Kommunismusforschung. Vergleichende Beiträge zur sozialen Entwicklung in der Tschechoslowakei, DDR, Polen und Ungarn 1948-1960. Band Wiesseer Tagungen des Collegium Carolinum 29 (2004).

“Public Works, Private Lives: Youth Brigades in Nowa Huta in the 1950s,” Contemporary European History 10: 2 (2001): 199-219.

“Revising the ‘Politicized Landscape’: Nowa Huta, 1949-1957,” City and Society XI: 1-2 (1999): 165-87.

“What’s Nowa Huta to a Westerner?” (in Polish) in Narodziny Nowej Huty. Materialy sesji naukowej odbytej 25 kwietnia 1998 roku, ed. Jan M. Malecki. Kraków: Towarzystwo Milosników Historii i Zabytków Krakowa, 1999.

“Education and the Immigrant Experience: An Oral History of Working Women and Men of New Haven,” Journal of the New Haven Colony Historical Society (Fall 1993).

Awards

Jean Monnet Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2005

American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-2000

Fulbright-IIE Junior Fellowship, 1997-98

Current Research

I am revising a book manuscript, a social and cultural history of the new town of Nowa Huta (known as Poland’s “first socialist city”), that strives to recast our understanding of social relations in Stalinist Eastern Europe. Plans for future projects include studies of gender and the socialist “second economy”; of Central and East European photojournalism; and of the impact of mass media and “virtual modernity” in interwar Eastern Europe.