Graduate
Shawn Clybor
Field: Europe [modern East-Central Europe]
Advisor: Benjamin Frommer
Contact: s-clybor
northwestern.edu
Shawn Clybor (B.A. UIC, Chicago; M.A. Northwestern) is a seventh year graduate student (as of 2009-2010) at the Northwestern History Department who specializes in modern East Central Europe. He is currently completing his dissertation, “Culture and Communism: The Czech avant-garde and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 1920-1960.” More generally he is interested in the political usage of culture and the rise of cultural politics in modern state systems, and the development of political ideologies and ideological thinking since the late 18th century, (Liberalism, Conservatism, Nationalism and Socialism). Recently, he has been particularly interested in post-1945 articulations of socialist realism, both as a theory of aesthetics and a model of social and cultural criticism. He has taught lecture courses for the School of Continuing Studies (European Civilization from the Eighteenth Century to Present; Modern East European History) and a freshman seminar for the History Department, (Europe between the Wars, 1918-1938).
