Bruce Berglund, Associate Professor, History
(616)526-6194
brb6@calvin.edu
Office: Hiemenga Hall 484
Weekly Schedule
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Educational background
B.A., History, University of Minnesota
Ph.D., East European and Russian History, University of Kansas
Research and professional interests
Early 20th-century Eastern Europe, architectural and art history,
the cultural history of sports.
Recent activities
Prof. Berglund's essay collection, titled Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe, which he co-edited with Brian Porter-Szucs (University of Michigan), was published in 2010. See the review on H-Net. He is currently finishing his book Cathedral and Castle in 20th-Century Central Europe: The Religious and the Modern in Architecture, Art and Thought, 1910-1939, a new look at Central European cultural history that addresses how artists, writers, and intellectuals in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia addressed the sacred and the secular. And he is beginning work on his next project, Making Fans, a comparative history of how—and why—sports fans identify themselves with teams (a direct off-shoot of his work in East European religion and nationalism).
Life outside of Calvin College
Prof. Berglund coaches Little League baseball and builds sand castles on the Lake Michigan beach. He is also the host of New Books in Sports, part of the New Books Network.
Other information
See a partial list of Bruce Berglund's publications.
