Claudia Lonkin
Adjunct Professor
Research Interests
Transnational history between East Central Europe and Latin America, Cold War cultural and material history, state-owned enterprises, identity formation
Biography
Claudia Lonkin is a historian of East Central Europe and Latin America. She earned her B.A. at McGill University and her M.A. at the University of Alberta, and is currently writing her doctoral dissertation at New York University. Her work explores international Cold War politics through state-produced culture and materiality, focusing on popular music and vinyl record production. Claudia’s most recent book is about German new wave music (“neue deutsche Welle”) and its social, political, and historical context in German-speaking Europe. Her research has been supported by the US Department of State and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES).
Publications
“The Belarusian Chameleons: Pesniary’s Popularity and the Ambiguity of Soviet Identities,” Europe-Asia Studies v. 76, i. 3 (2024): 388-410.
Neue Deutsche Welle, Genre: A 33⅓ Series (New York: Bloomsbury, 2024).
“Radical Nostalgia: Molchat Doma’s Monument to the Endurance of Joy,” Journal of Popular Music Studies 33, no. 2 (June 2021): 23-30.
| claudia.lonkin@uconn.edu | |
| Phone | (203) 251-8400 |
| Mailing Address | UConn Stamford, 1 University Place, Stamford, Connecticut 06901 |
| Campus | Campus: Stamford |
| Office Hours | Fall 2024: by appointment |