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7705 HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Tomoff, Kiril

Associate Professor of History
EAP Director

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

History


Chancellor’s Office

Chancellor's Office


Biography

A native Arizonan and 1992 graduate of the University of Arizona, Kiril Tomoff is thrilled to return to the West after graduate study at the University of Chicago, where he received an M.A. in General Studies in the Humanities in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Russian and Soviet History in 2001. He received a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Fellowship in 1998-99, and he has presented papers at conferences in the United States, Norway, and Hungary. An active and serious amateur horn player, Tomoff has tried to combine his interests in music and Russian history. He is also beginning research on the construction of a Soviet cultural sphere after World War II. Besides modern Russian history, his teaching interests include 20th-century Europe and the 20th-century world.

Former Institution

 University of Chicago

Degrees

B.A. Russian Language 1992

University of Arizona

M.A. Humanities 1995

University of Chicago

Ph.D. Russian & Soviet History 2001

University of Chicago

Awards

University of Chicago Dissertation Teaching and Research Fellowship, 2000-01
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Fellowship, 1998-1999.
Francis X. Kinahan Memorial Prize for commitment to teaching, writing, and the students in the writing program at the University of Chicago, 1998.
University of Chicago Summer Research Exchange (Moscow & St. Petersburg), July 1996, 1997-98.


Research Area

Russian and Soviet History; Modern European History; Music

Publications

His book Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1953 is published by Cornell University Press and was released in the spring of 2006. It provides the first ever in-depth analysis of the professional organization of Soviet composers during the Stalin period.