Sergei Zhuk
Fellow
Term
September 3, 2024 — May 23, 2025
Professional affiliation
Professor of History, Ball State University
Expertise
- Cold War
- History
- International Development
- Security and Defense
- Society and Culture
- U.S. Politics
Wilson Center Projects
The KGB/Russian Intelligence, Academic Imperialism, Ukraine, and Western Academia, 1946 – 1991
Full Biography
Sergei Zhuk is Professor of History at Ball State University, Indiana, USA. A former Soviet expert in US history, he moved in 1997 to the United States, defended his American Ph.D. dissertation about imperial Russian history at Johns Hopkins University in 2002. His research interests are Soviet/Russian/Ukrainian history, imperialism and fascism in Russian past and present; Russian intelligence; international relations (especially US-Russia relations), knowledge production, popular culture and cultural consumption.
Major Publications
- KGB Operations against the USA and Canada in Soviet Ukraine, 1953 – 1991 (London and New York: Routledge [Taylor & Francis] Publishing Company, 2022) [paperback edition: January 2024]
- Soviet Americana: The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018 [London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019] [paperback: September 2019])
- Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press & Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2010 [paperback: March 2017])
Previous Terms
Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute 8/01/2002-5/01/2003 and 07/15/2019-08/16/2019.