Associate
Professor
Department of History
St. John Hall, Room 244-I
Queens Campus
Tel (718) 990-5236
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 Ph.D. 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.