Mary Neuburger

Dr. Mary Neuburger is a Professor of history, the Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), and the Chair of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas of Austin. Dr. Neuburger has initiated numerous synergistic projects with departments and global area studies centers across UT campus and has secured and continues to administer numerous federal grants including a Department of Education, Title VI National Resource Center grant (2014-present), a Fulbright-Hayes Group Projects Abroad grant for the Moscow-Texas Connections program (2013-16), and a Department of Defense grant for Project Global Officers (2013-15). She is the author of The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria (Cornell 2004), and Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria (Cornell, 2012). Dr. Neuburger is also the co-editor with Paulina Bren of Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe (Oxford, 2012) and has authored numerous articles on Bulgarian history. She is currently working on a cultural history of food in Bulgaria, and is co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History.