Stephen M. Norris

Stephen M. Norris is Professor of History at Miami University (OH). His first book, A War of Images: Russian Popular Prints, Wartime Culture, and National Identity, 1812-1945(Northern Illinois University Press, 2006), examines the lubok and how it served as an important medium for articulating Russian nationhood. His second book, Blockbuster History in the New Russia: Movies, Memory, and Patriotism (Indiana University Press, 2012), traces a similar story after communism, arguing that recent Russian historical films sparked a revival of nationalist and patriotic sentiments. He is presently working on a biography of Boris Efimov (1900-2008), the Soviet caricaturist.