Marsha Siefert
Associate Professor
Director of Doctoral Program
egyetemi docens
Building:
Nador u. 11
Room:
103
Phone number:
+36 1 327-3000 x 2110 Qualifications:
MA, PhD, Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D. (Nostrification), Literature, University of Szeged
MA, Folklore, Indiana University
BS with Distinction, Music and Literature, Indiana University
Academic/Professional Experience and Achievements:
Selected Fellowships and Awards
Grant Partner, “Visegrad Cinemas,” Visegrad Foundation, 2011.
Mellon Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, 2008
Visiting Research Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, January–May 2007
Mobility Grants from CEU-SEP to lecture at the Department of History, the National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy," Kyiv, September—October 2007, at the Faculty of Philosophy, Department of the History and Theory of Culture, and the Institute of Ethnography, University of Sofia “Kliment Ohridsky,” May 2001; at the Department of Foreign Languages, Buryat State University, Ulan-Ude, and the Moscow State University Sociology Department, Moscow, April 2001; and at the Journalism Department at West University in Timisoara and Mass Communication Department at the University of Bucharest, Romania, January 1997
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, 2000
Senior Associate Member, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, Hilary term, 2000
Bridgebuilder's Award, Muhlenberg College, for excellence in teaching students with learning disabilities, 1995
Association of American Publishers Award for the "Most Outstanding Single Issue" of a Journal, “Mass Culture and Perestroika in the Soviet Union," 1991
Selected Professional Activities
Co-Editor, Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, CEU Press
Co-Editor, Longman Communication Books in International communication, Longman Publishers, (23 volumes published);
Co-Editor, Communications and Society Book Series, Oxford University Press, (15 volumes published)
Editorial Boards: Popular Music and Society; New Media and Society; International Communication Gazette; Handbook of New Media, Interstitio: East European Review of Historical Anthropology; Media and Religion (Moscow)
Editor, Journal of Communication, 1985-1991, Oxford University Press, Circulation: 7,500
Affiliations:
Academic/research topics:
Cold War culture
Cultural history
History of communications
film and music
Oral History and Biography
Academic/Research Areas:
Courses taught by Marsha Siefert
| Biography and Oral History | 2011/2012 |
| Ph.D. TUTORIAL I |
2011/2012 2012/2013 |
| Ph.D. TUTORIAL II |
2011/2012 2012/2013 |
| International Communication | 1998/1999 |
| Media, Communication and Communism in International Context |
2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013 |
| PhD Tutorial I. |
2009/2010 2010/2011 |
| PhD Tutorial II |
2009/2010 2010/2011 |
Theses supervised by Marsha Siefert
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Youth Fashion as a Part of Soviet Cultural Policy in the 1950-1960s. The case study of: Leningrad and Moscow Thesis author: Yulia Karpova Year of enrollment: 2009/2010 |
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“A garden with mellow fruits of refinement” - Music Theatres and Cultural Politics in Cairo and Istanbul, 1867-1892 Thesis author: Adam Mestyan Year of enrollment: 2007/2008 |
Publications
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Extending the borders of Russian history : essays in honor of Alfred J. Rieber, Edited by M. Siefert. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2003.
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Mass culture and perestroika in the Soviet Union, Edited by M. Siefert. New York: Oxford Univiversity Press, 1991.
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The Information gap : how computers and other new communication technologies affect the social distribution of power. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Ferment in the Field: Communications Scholars Address Critical Issues and Research Tasks of the Discipline In Journal of communication, Edited by George Gerbner and M. Siefert. Annenberg School Press, 1983.
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"Co-Producing Cold War Culture: East-West Film-Making and Cultural Diplomacy." In Divided Dreamworlds? The Cultural Cold War East and West, edited by Peter Romijn, Giles Scott-Smith and Joes Segal, 73-94. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
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"East European Cold War Culture(s)? Commonalities, Alterities and Film Industries." In Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies, edited by Thomas Lindenberger, Marcus Payk and Annette Vowinkle, 23-54. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012.
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"'Chingis Khan with the Telegraph’: Communications in the Russian and Ottoman Empires." In Comparing Empires: Encounters and Transfers in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Jörn Leonhard and Ulrike von Hirschhausen, 80-110. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2011.
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"Russian lives, Soviet films: Tchaikovsky, the biopic and the cold war." In Leinwand zwischen Tauwetter und Frost : der osteuropäische Spiel- und Dokumentarfilm im Kalten Kri, 133-170. Berlin: Metropol, 2007.
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"From cold war to wary peace: American culture in the Soviet Union and Russia." In The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism After 1945, edited by A. Stephan, 185-217. Berghahn Books, 2007.
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"Twentieth-century culture, 'Americanization,' and European audiovisual space." In Conflicted memories : Europeanizing contemporary histories, edited by K. H. Jarausch and T. Lindenberger, 164-193. Vol. 3. Studies in contemporary European history 3. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007.
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"Allies on film : US-USSR filmmakers and the Battle of Russia." In Extending the borders of Russian history: essays in honor of Alfred J. Rieber, 373-400. Budapest: CEU Press, 2003.
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"Re-mastering the past: musical heritage, sound recording and the nation in Hungary and Russia." In National heritage – national canon, edited by M. Szegedy-Maszák, 251-281. Vol. 11. Collegium Budapest workshop series 11. Budapest: Collegium Budapest, 2001.
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"The audience at home : the early recording industry and the marketing of musical taste." In Audiencemaking : how the media create the audience, edited by J. S. Ettema and D. C. Whitney, 186-214. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1994.
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"Opera." In International Encyclopedia of Communications , 217-222. Vol. 3. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
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Moscow Prime Time In Roth-Ey, K. (2011). Moscow prime time: How the Soviet Union built the media empire that lost the cultural Cold War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. . Vol. 5. Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 5, no. 3., 2012.
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The Post-Soviet Russian Media In Beumers, B., Hutchings, S. C., & Rulyova, N. (2009). The post-Soviet Russian media: Conflicting signals. London: Routledge. Vol. 106. Modern Language Review 106, no. 3., 2011.
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Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas In Rajagopalan, S. (2008). Indian films in Soviet cinemas: The culture of movie-going after Stalin. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. . Vol. 4. Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema 4, no. 3., 2010.
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"Teaching History in a (New) Media World: Historical Narratives, the Audiovisual, and the Digital Past." Interstitio: East European Review of Historical Anthropology 1 (2007): 87-116.
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"Visualizing history: design and representation in history textbooks." Ukraina moderna, no. 9 (2004): 92-105.
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"The Metropolitan Opera in the American century: opera singers, Europe, and cultural politics." The metropolitan opera in the American centuryJournal of Arts Management Law and Society 33, no. 4 (2004): 298-315.
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"Radio diplomacy and the cold war." Journal of Communication 53, no. 2 (2003): 365-373.
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"Image music voice – song dubbing in Hollywood musicals." Journal of Communication 45, no. 2 (1995): 44-64.
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"Aesthetics, technology, and the capitalization of culture – How the talking machine became a musical-instrument." Science in Context 8, no. 2 (1995): 417-449.
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"Introduction." Science in context 8, no. 2 (1995): 281-292.
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"Waiting for review." Library Journal 115, no. 12 (1990): 8.
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"Style as substance, Dorson as an author of folklore scholarship." Journal of Folklore Research 26, no. 1 (1989): 61-72.
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"The dynamics of evaluation, a case-study of performance reviews." Poetics Today 5, no. 1 (1984): 111-127.
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International telecommunications: What price policy?, Journal of Communication. Oxford University Press, 1988.
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Communicating risk: the media and the public, Journal of Communication. Oxford University Press, 1987.
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The television audience. Oxford University Press, 1986.
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Homo narrans: story-telling in mass culture and everyday life, Journal of Communication. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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Mediating Opera for America : Magazine Biographies, Opera Singers and National Identity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
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How the Talking Machine Became a Musical Instrument : Technology, Aesthetics, and the Capitalization of Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1989.
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