Dr Marcel Garbos

Biography

Marcel Garboś joined the Aberdeen History Department and the Centre for Polish-Lithuanian Studies in February 2024 following the award of a three-year British Academy International Fellowship for a project entitled "Federalism and the Fate of Europe’s Borderlands: The Transnational Search for Alternatives to Empire and Ethnic Nationalism in Eastern Europe, 1880s–1960s." While earning his undergraduate degree from Bard College at Simon’s Rock in 2014, he developed his interests in social and political thought in Eastern Europe, with broad focuses on the comparative history of empires and visions of post-imperial order in the modern world. He completed his doctorate in the History Department at Harvard University in 2021 with a dissertation entitled "The Clash of Internationalisms: ‘Prometheism, National Communism, and the Fate of the Soviet Borderlands, 1889-1939." Between 2022 and 2023, Marcel taught at Columbia University, where he was István Deák Visiting Professor of East Central European Studies, at George Mason University, and at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. In 2023, he held a Title VIII Research Scholarship at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, Harvard Review, Rocznik Przemyski, and The Slavonic and East European Review.

Marcel warmly invites fellow historians interested in pursuing graduate studies, fellowships, or teaching opportunities in the United States to be in contact via email.