James Nealy, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, History
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James Nealy received his PhD from Duke University in May of 2022. A specialist in the political-economic and social history of Modern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Global Cold War, his writing has appeared in Kritika, Revolutionary Russia, and Contemporary European History. Along with Emily Elliott he is the co-editor of the forthcoming volume Soviet Workers in the World: Soviet Labor and Working-Class History in Global Context (Bloomsbury, 2026). His research and writing have been funded by, among others, the Fulbright Program, the American Historical Association, and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Dr. Nealy is the recipient of three writing awards, including the 2023 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies' Tucker-Cohen Dissertation Prize for best dissertation in the history or politics of Russia. He has previously held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University, and the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU. To date, he has conducted archival research in Russia, Germany, Poland, and Estonia. Dr. Nealy's research languages include Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Polish, French, and German; in the future, he aims to develop reading proficiency in Vietnamese and Estonian.
Drawing on the work of sociologists, economists, and political scientists, Dr. Nealy demonstrates a deep committment to interdisciplinary social scientific research in his scholarship and in the classroom. At UTSA, he would be especially eager to work with students interested in the political- economic and social history of any geographic region.
Degrees
- PhD: Duke University, 2022
- MA: Miami University, 2014
- BA: University of Houston-Downtown, 2012
