Department Chair and Associate
Professor
Department of History
St. John Hall, Room 244-F
Queens Campus
Phone: 718-990-6228
Fax: 718-990-2644
borrerom@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D., 1992, Indiana University, Russian History
M.A., 1984, Indiana University, Russian History
B.A., 1981, Georgetown University, Russian and East European
History
Profile
Mauricio Borrero received his PhD in Russian History from Indiana
University in 1992 and came to St. John’s two years later, after
teaching at the University of Oregon. He has been Chair of
the History Department since 2002. At St. John’s he teaches
courses in Russian history, twentieth-century Europe, and sport and
popular culture. He is the author of Hungry Moscow: Scarcity and
Urban Society in the Russian Civil War, 1917-1921 (2003) and
Russia: a Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present
(2004). His main research interests are three-fold and very
loosely interconnected: the history of hunger, the social and
cultural history of sport, and modern Colombian history, the latter
as seen through the methodology of oral history. In addition
to ongoing research on the history of hunger, He is currently
writing a global history of sport and researching a biography of
the renowned Soviet soccer goalkeeper, Lev Yashin.