Author: Marshall Poe
Marshall Poe is the author of A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet (2012).
Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa, is the author or editor of several books, including A People Born to Slavery: Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography (Cornell 2000), The Russian Elite in the Seventeenth Century (Academia Scientiarum Fennica 2004) and The Russian Moment in World History (Princeton 2006). He is the co-founder and editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and founder and host of 'New Books in History' (http://newbooksinhistory.com), as well as a former writer and editor for the Atlantic Monthly. Professor Poe has been a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton University), Harriman Institute (Columbia University) and the Kennan Institute (Washington, DC).