Faculty Profiles
Garret McDonald
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
History
231 Spes Unica Hall
Education
- PhD, Fordham University
- MA, Texas Tech University
- BA, Angelo State University
Areas of Expertise
- Imperial Russian and Soviet History
- Modern European History
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
- Crime and Punishment in Eurasian History
- Central Asian History
Research Interests
- Forensic psychiatry and involuntary psychiatric hospitalization
- Soviet prisons and labor camps
- Criminalistics (forensics) and ethnic policing
- Natural sciences and colonialism
- Sovietization in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Courses Recently Taught
HIST 103: World History to 1500
HIST 103W: World Civilization to 1500
Professional Experience
Teaching Fellow, Fordham University, 2019-2021
Creative and Scholarly Work
- The Ghost of the Insulin Gulag: Punitive Psychiatry and Social Repression in the Soviet Union (Book manuscript in-progress)
- “Journeys through the Past and to the Future: V. A. Obruchev and Popular Enlightenment in the Natural Sciences, 1886–1956,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (2023): 1-25. https://doi.org/10.30965/
18763324-bja10078. - "Thinking Cosmically: An Interview with Andy Bruno," Journal of the History of Ideas Blog (forthcoming).
- "'Knowledgeable and Interested in Penitentiary Issues': The Forensic Psychiatrist in Revolutionary Russia," Journal of the History of Ideas Blog (July 10, 2023). https://jhiblog.org/2023/07/
10/knowledgeable-and- interested-in-penitentiary- issues-the-forensic- psychiatrist-in-revolutionary- russia/ - "Marxism, Psychology, and the Soviet Mind," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 23, no. 1 (Winter 2022): 145-58.
- Book reviewer for Europe-Asia Studies; Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society; and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History