Steven Harris (sharris)

Professor of Modern Russian and European History

Monroe Hall Room 215
sharris@umw.edu
540-654-1390

Academic Degrees

B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago

Steven Harris in the News

Harris Joins WFVA’s Town Talk to Promote Valentine’s Day Events & More

UMW Museums Executive Director Scott Harris joined News Talk 1230 WFVA’s Town Talk this month to talk about a special Valentine’s Day weekend at two historic sites — a Saturday evening dinner at Gari Melchers Home and Studio and a unique Sunday program at the James Monroe Museum--Tea and Trifles. Read more…

Harris Publishes Article on Soviet Hero Cults and Spirituality

Steven E. Harris, professor of Russian and Eurasian history in the Department of History, American Studies, and Sociology, has published the peer-reviewed article, “The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism,” in The Russian Review. This article examines the martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a Read more…

Harris Appears on WFVA Town Talk to Preview 2026 Great Lives Series

UMW Museums Director Scott Harris joined News Talk 1230 WFVA’s Town Talk to discuss the 2026 Great Lives series, which kicks off on January 20. Harris says programs will be held nearly every Tuesday and Thursday at Dodd Auditorium, offering audiences an in-depth look at the lives and achievements of Read more…

UMW Students Join Prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

Dozens of University of Mary Washington students are the newest members of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society. Thirty-eight UMW juniors and seniors were inducted into Phi Beta Kappa during a recent ceremony announcing the 2024 cohort of the University’s Kappa of Virginia chapter. They join an Read more…

Harris publishes article on Aeroflot and Pan Am

Dr. Steven E. Harris (HIST) recently published "The World's Largest Airline: How Aeroflot Learned to Stop Worrying and Became a Corporation" in Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research. The article explores Aeroflot's unlikely success in besting Pan Am on their shared route between New York and Moscow (1968-1991), and how Read more…

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