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 centers on the history of 19th- and 20th-century Eastern Europe, Central Europe, and the Balkans, with the frequent use of comparative approaches. The projects I pursue are typically situated at the intersection between cultural and political history, with important connections to economic, intellectual, and religious history as well. Recent research areas have included the following:
    • The international reach of consumer society and the societal implications of shopping, spending, advertising, marketing, and retailing
    • Popular culture, material culture, and mass media; the nature and significance of the everyday
    • The history of travel, tourism, and leisure
    • Islam in the Balkans
    • European responses to Islam, especially Christian political-cultural engagement; religion, irreligion, and multiculturalism in European history
    • Transnational dynamics of religion, politics, and nationalism; political Catholicism; religion and the Right; secularism and secularization
    • 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"

     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:
  • "The Futile Crescent?  Judging the Legacies of Ottoman Rule in Croatian History," forthcoming in the Austrian History Yearbook, vol. 40 (2009).
  • "Making Markets Marxist?  The East European Grocery Store from Rationing to Rationality to Rationalizations," in Food Chains:  From Farmyard to Shopping Cart, eds. Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz, Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture series (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), 196-216, with notes at 285-288.
  • "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, with notes at 278-282.
  • "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.   [translation of "On the Edge of Reason," 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 progress:

     Under submission:
  • "Yugoslavia As It Once Was:  What Tourism and Leisure Meant for the History of the Socialist Federation," under submission (final revisions for the book editors completed) for the volume tentatively titled Yugoslavia's Sunny Side:  A History of Tourism in Socialism, 1950s-1980s, Hannes Grandits and Karin Taylor, editors.
  • "On the Ruin of Christendom:  Religious Politics and the Challenge of Islam in the New West," under submission (final revisions for the book editors completed) for the volume tentatively titled Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe, Bruce Berglund and Brian Porter-Szucs, editors, under review with the Central European University Press.
  • "A Kinder, Gentler Europe?  Islam, Christianity, and the Divergent Multiculturalisms of the New West," under submission (final revisions for the book editors completed) for the volume tentatively titled American Multiculturalism after 9/11, Derek Rubin and Jaap Verheul, editors, under review with the University of Amsterdam Press.
  • "What Went Wrong and What Went Right:  Islamic Backwardness, Christian Culture, and European Civilization in the Croat Nationalism of Stjepan Radic', 1897-1928," under review   [journal article].

     In preparation:
  • "The Shop-Windows of Socialism?  What Was Really on Sale in Eastern Europe's Department Stores," in preparation for the volume tentatively titled Consuming Communism:  Cultures of Consumption in Postwar Eastern Europe, Mary Neuburger and Paulina Bren, editors.  

     Book reviews:
  • Review of Die erfundene Freundschaft:  Propaganda für die Sowjetunion in Polen und in der DDR.  By Jan C. Behrends.  Cologne/Weimar/Vienna:  Böhlau, 2006.  Forthcoming in Slavic Review. 
  • Review of The Currency of Socialism:  Money and Political Culture in East Germany.  By Jonathan R. Zatlin.  Washington, D.C., German Historical Institute/New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007.  The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39, no. 3 (Winter 2009):  431-432.
  • 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
    
      I teach the following courses:
Graduate level:

Historical Scholarship on European History since 1850 (HIGR 222) -- Spring 2008
The Muslim Experience in Contemporary Europe (HIEU 282) -- Spring 2007, Spring 2009
Yugoslavia:  Before, During, and After (HIEU 284) -- Fall 2009
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Identity in Contemporary Europe (HIEU 281 -- future course)
 
Upper-division undergraduate level:
The Muslim Experience in Contemporary Europe (HIEU 182) -- Spring 2007, Spring 2009
Yugoslavia:  Before, During, and After (HIEU 184) -- Fall 2009
International Law--War Crimes and Genocide (HITO 134) -- Spring 2007, Summer 2007, Summer 2008 (Session II), Winter 2010
Immigration, Ethnicity, and Identity in Contemporary Europe -- Spring 2005  (to be taught in the future as HIEU 181)
Americanization in Europe (HIEU 118 -- future course)
Greece and the Balkans during the Twentieth Century (HIEU 117B -- future course)
The Worst of Times:  Everyday Life in Authoritarian and Dictatorial Societies (HIEU 152) -- Summer II 2009 (in Berlin), Fall 2009
Religion and the Law in Modern European History (HIEU 157 -- future course)
Directed Group Study in European history/Research Assistantships (HIEU 198) -- offered most quarters

About the HIEU 198 Research Assistantships/Directed Group Study course:  Students interested in hands-on experience as part of a demanding, interdisciplinary research program in a small-group setting may work for course credit as research assistants in connection with my new project on Islam and political Christianity.  Interested students should consult with me regarding the nature of the work to be undertaken and the expectations involved, and on that basis, obtain my approval to sign up for HIEU 198.   A reading knowledge of European languages is highly desirable, but not essential.

Lower-division undergraduate level:

 Freshman Seminar:  Problems in Religion and the Law:  A Comparative Perspective (HITO 87) -- Spring 2008 (ERC 20), Spring 2008

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 (1200-1750) -- Summer Session II, 2007 & 2008
MMW 5 -- Revolution, Industry & Empire (1750-1900) -- Winter 2007, Winter 2010
MMW 6 -- The Twentieth Century and Beyond -- Spring 2008, Spring 2009

    Selected Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

      Faculty Career Development Program grant, University of California, San Diego
      -- awarded for research release time, Fall 2008 and Winter 2009

      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 Serbocroatian language study


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