Patrick Hyder Patterson

Modern Balkan & East European History

Assistant Professor, History, UCSD, 2006-present

Research leave, Fall/Winter 2007-2008 -- NCEEER grant

Research leave, 2005-2006 -- IREX & ACLS fellowships

Lecturer, Eleanor Roosevelt College, UCSD, 2001-2005

Education:

 

Ph.D.     University of Michigan, Ann Arbor   2001 

J.D.        University of Virginia School of Law   1988

A.B.       Religion, Princeton University   1985

 

Contact:

 

Office:    Humanities & Social Science, Room 4084

Mail:       9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0104
                La Jolla, California  92093-0104

Phone:   (858) 534-1999               Fax: (858) 534-7283

E-mail:   patrickpatterson   @   ucsd.edu     

More information below on:

Research and Publications

Teaching at UCSD

Selected Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Resources:  Balkan & East European History

                                                                                       
    Research and Publications

     Link to my complete Curriculum Vitae (under construction)

My research is centered on the history of 19th- and 20th-century Eastern Europe, Central Europe, and the Balkans, often using comparative approaches.  My projects are typically situated at the intersection between cultural and political history, with substantial connections to economic, intellectual, and religious history as well.  Recent research subjects have included the following:

    • The globalization of consumer society and the societal implications of shopping, spending, advertising, marketing, and retailing
    • Islam in the Balkans
    • European responses to Islam, especially Christian political and cultural engagement; secularism and multiculturalism in European history
    • Ethnicity, national consciousness, and nationalism
    • The power and limits of nationalist discourse and similar forms of exclusivist argumentation
    • The symbolic geography of “Europe,” “Central Europe,” “Eastern Europe,” “the Balkans,” and "the West"; the distinctiveness (or lack thereof) of the East European and Balkan historical experiences
    • Transnational studies of religion, politics, and nationalism; political Catholicism; religion and the Right; secularism and secularization
    • Popular culture, material culture, and mass media; the nature and significance of the everyday
    • The history of travel, tourism, and leisure


     Book projects (in progress):

  • Bought and Sold:  The Contradictions of Consumerism and the Life and Death of Yugoslavia
  • On the Ruin of Christendom:  Islam and the Secular Faiths of the New West


     Dissertation:

  • The New Class:  Consumer Culture under Socialism and the Unmaking of the Yugoslav Dream, 1945-1991  (University of Michigan, 2001)


     Articles:

  • "Dangerous Liaisons:  Soviet-Bloc Tourists and the Yugoslav Good Life in the 1960s & 1970s," in The Business of Tourism:  Place, Faith and History, eds. Philip Scranton and Janet F. Davidson, vol. 7 of the Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), 186-212.
  • "Sull'orlo della ragione:  I confini del balcanismo nel discorso pubblico sloveno, austriaco e italiano,"  Novecento:  Per una storia del tempo presente, no. 10 (January-June 2004):  87-106.   [translated version of "On the Edge of Reason"; see below]
  • "Truth Half Told:  Finding the Perfect Pitch for Advertising and Marketing in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950-1991," Enterprise & Society:  The International Journal of Business History 4, no. 2 (June 2003):  179-225. 
  • "On the Edge of Reason:  The Boundaries of Balkanism in Slovenian, Austrian, and Italian Discourse," Slavic Review 62, no. 1 (Spring 2003):  110-141.  
  • "The East Is Read: The End of Communism, Slovenian Exceptionalism, and the Independent Journalism of Mladina," East European Politics and Societies 14, no. 2 (Spring 2000):  411-459.


     Articles in preparation:

  • "What Went Wrong and What Went Right:  Islamic Backwardness, Christian Culture, and European Civilization in the Croat Nationalism of Stjepan Radic', 1897-1928"
  • "Making Markets Marxist?  The East European Grocery Store from Rationing to Rationality to Rationalizations," under submission (final revisions completed) for the volume tentatively titled Food Chains:  Provisioning, Technology, and Science, eds. Roger Horowitz and Warren Belasco, under contract and review for the Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture series, University of Pennsylvania Press, publication anticipated Fall 2008.
  • "On the Ruin of Christendom:  Religious Politics and the Challenge of Islam in the New West," under submission (final revisions completed) for the volume tentatively titled Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe, eds. Bruce Berglund and Brian Porter-Szucs, under review with Indiana University Press.


     Book reviews:

  • Review of Okkupation und Revolution in Slowenien (1941-1946):  Eine völkerrechtliche Untersuchung. By Dieter Blumenwitz.  Vol. 81, Studien zu Politik und Verwaltung, eds. Christian Brünner, Wolfgang Mantl, Manfried Welan.  Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau, 2005.   Slavic Review 65, no. 4 (Winter 2006): 815-816.


    Teaching at UCSD

Links (under construction) to course materials for:

Historical Scholarship on European History since 1850 (HIGR 222 -- graduate course) -- Spring 2008

The Muslim Experience in Contemporary Europe (HIEU 182/282) -- Spring 2007

International Law--War Crimes and Genocide (HITO 134) -- Spring 2007, Summer 2007  

Immigration, Ethnicity, and Identity in Contemporary Europe -- from Spring 2005  (to be taught in the future as HIEU 181/281)

Americanization in Europe (future course) Greece and the Balkans during the Twentieth Century (future course)

The Worst of Times:  Everyday Life in Authoritarian and Dictatorial Societies (future course)

 

  The Making of the Modern World series -- the global-studies core curriculum of UCSD's Eleanor Roosevelt College:

  

      MMW 4 -- New Ideas and the Clash of Cultures -- Summer Session II, 2007

 

      MMW 5 -- Revolution, Industry & Empire -- Winter 2007

 

      MMW 6 -- The Twentieth Century and Beyond -- Spring 2008


    Selected Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

      Postdoctoral grant, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, National Research Competition 
      -- awarded for research leave and field work, 2007-2008

      Postdoctoral fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, academic year 2005-2006
      -- for research leave and field work in Southeast European Studies

      Postdoctoral fellowship, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), academic year 2005-2006
      -- Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Program, for research leave and field work in Hungary and Serbia

      American Historical Association Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant, 2004
      -- for research in European history in connection with the book project Communism Consumed

      American Council of Learned Societies East European Language Training Grant, 2003
      -- for advanced studies in Hungarian language and translation at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

      Society for Slovene Studies Graduate Student Prize, 2000
      -- awarded for the best paper in any discipline written by a graduate student, for "The East Is Read"

      Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2000
      -- for advanced studies in Hungarian language at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

      J. William Fulbright Fellowship, 1999
      -- for dissertation research on Yugoslav consumer culture

      Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, Indiana University, 1997
      -- for Hungarian language study

      Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1987-1988
      -- for intermediate-level Serbocroatian language study


   Resources for Balkan & East European History

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   Just Plain Cool and Interesting Stuff

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   Miscellanea