Mark Bassin, Reader in Cultural and Political Geography, Department of Geography, University College London

Mark Bassin received his PhD from the University of California-Berkeley in 1983, and is currently a Reader in Cultural and Political Geography at University College London.  Before moving to London, Mr. Bassin taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he has been a visiting professor at UCLA, the University of Chicago, Copenhagen University, and Pau University (France).  Mr. Bassin has held research fellowships at the Kennan Institute (Smithsonian Institution), New York University, the American Academy (Berlin) and the Institut für Europäische Geschichte (Mainz). Additionally, he has been awarded grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the British Academy, and the DAAD.  His research focuses on geographies of identity in Russia and Germany, and also on theories of space and politics.  He has published extensively in historical and geographical journals in the USA, UK, Germany, and Russia.  His book Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East 1840-1865 (Cambridge University Press) appeared in 1999.

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