Ben Sawyer
Office: Morrill Hall-Room 8
Email: sawyerb1@msu.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 1:15 to 2:15 or by appointment
Advisor: Lewis Siegelbaum
Years in Program: 2
Research Interests: Cold War in International Perspective, Late Tsarist/Soviet History, Institutional Economics, Economic and Business History, Imperialism, Twentieth Century
Research Keywords
- History of the Cold War, Late Tsarist/Soviet History, History of Central Asia, Institutional Economics, Economic and Business History, Imperialism, Twentieth Century
Research Areas
- Comparative, Economic, Political
Time Periods
- 20th Century/Contemporary
Recent or current courses
- HST 201 - Historical Methods and Skills (Spring 2010)
Significant Scholarly Activities
Presentations
- Benjamin W. Sawyer, ""An American Company?: Singer Manufacturing Company and American Capitalism in the Russian Imagination during World War I"," , History of Capitalism in the United States, Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA, 11/08/08.
Awards, Fellowships & Grants
- Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship- Russian and Eastern European Institute at Indiana University- Bloomington (Summer 2007)
- Muelder-Lowe Fellowship