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Thomas Wolfe

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Thomas C. Wolfe is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. He is affiliated faculty with the Department of Anthropology, the Institute for Global Studies, and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. He is a student of 20th century modernity, with a concern with the formation of disciplines, worldviews, and knowledge complexes. His researching and teaching center on the place of communications practices and institutions in the creation of modern social and political movements.


Specialties

  • communications
  • culture of journalism
  • European Union
  • post-communist Russia
  • Soviet Union
  • Michel Foucault, governmentality

Publications

  • The Most Invisible Hand: Journalism and Media Context in Contemporary Russia. Wolfe, Thomas C, 1996.
  • Double Ruins, Diplomatic Solution?. Wolfe, Thomas C, 1998.

Courses Taught

  • Hist 8015 - Scope and Methods of Historical Studies
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