Curriculum Vitae—Jonathan A. Bone

EDUCATION

1993–present: Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago.

Dissertation: "Socialism In A Far Country: Development And Socio-Economic Change In The Soviet Far East, 1929–39."  Completion/defense pending, Fall 2001.

Committee: Sheila Fitzpatrick, dissertation advisor; Richard Hellie; Bruce Cumings; Ron Grigor Suny (all University of Chicago).

Fields of Study: Russo-Soviet History from 1700; Russian History to 1700; Industrial Economies—20th Century.

Oral field examinations passed with high distinction December, 1992.

1990: MA, History, University of Chicago.

1989: BA, History, DePaul University.

1975: AA, History, William Rainey Harper College.
 

PUBLICATIONS

Border-Zone Slavicization And The Fate Of The Soviet Far Eastern Koreans, 1922-1937 , forthcoming in Siberica, vol. 1 no. 1 (tentatively scheduled for winter 2002).

An Annotated Guide To Stalin's Office Logbook, 1924–1931, Stalin Era Research And Archives Project Working Paper No. 3, University of Toronto, 1999.

Soviet Controls On The Circulation Of Information, in special double issue of Cahiers du Monde Russe, vol. 40 nos. 1–2 (January–June 1999): 65–90.

A la recherche d'un Komsomol perdu: Who really built Komsomol'sk-na-Amure, and why , in Revue des Etudes Slaves (Paris) vol. 53 no. 1 (1999): 59–92.

Exporting The Labor Revolution: Management-Worker Relations On The Chinese Eastern Railway, 1924–1934, in Dal’nii Vostok Rossii—Severo-Vostok Kitaia: Istoricheskii opyt vzaimodeistviia i perspektivy sotrudnichestva.... (Khabarovsk: Izdatel’skii dom “Chastnaia kollektsiia,” 1998), 92–94.

Archival Access In Vladivostok: A Model For Moscow?In AAASS Newsnet, 37:5 (November 1997): 5–6.

Problematicheskii mir: Peresmotr Sovetsko-Iaponskogo pakta o neitralitete 1941-go g. Abstract published in Istoricheskii opyt osvoeniia vostochnykh raionov Rossii: Tezisy dokladov...mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii, kn. 2 (Vladivostok: RAN DVNTs, Institut istorii, arkheologii, i etnografii narodov Dal'nego Vostoka, 1993), 209–210.

Rice, Rubber And Development Policies: The Mise-En-Valeur Of French Indochina On The Eve Of The Second World War.  In Proceedingsof the Annual Meeting of the French Colonial History Society [US], 1992 (16): 154–80.
 

CONFERENCE AND/OR WORKSHOP PAPERS, CONFERENCE PARTICPATION

Russian Far East Archives (roundtable), at AAASS 32nd national convention (November 2000), Denver.

Socialist Competition In Dal’nevostochnyi Krai During The First Five Year Plan, at AAASS 32nd national convention (November 2000), Denver.

Soviet Archives In Post-Soviet Russia, at Midwest Archives Conference Annual Spring Meeting (May 2000), Chicago.

Asia Stops Here: Border-Zone Slavicization And The Fate Of The Far Eastern Koreans, at AAASS 31st national convention (November 1999), St. Louis.

Eksport rabochei revoliutsii: Otnosheniia menedzhmenta i rabochikh na Kitaisko-Vostochnoi zheleznoi doroge v 1924-1934 gg, at "Dal'nii Vostok Rossii—Severo-Vostok Kitaia: Istoricheskii opyt vzaimodeistviia i perspektivy sotrudnichestva," conference in Khabarovsk (Russia) commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Harbin (Manchuria), June 1998.

Harbin and the struggle for Manchurian exports, 1925–1935, at AAASS 29th national convention (November 1997), Seattle.

Discussant, panel on Repression in the Soviet Far East, 1930–1940, at AAASS 28th national convention (November 1997), Seattle.

Archival holdings in the Russian Far East: Some implications for the study of Stalinist governance, at University of Toronto Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project seminar "Viewing the Stalin era through the prism of regional archives," Toronto (June 1997).

Towards a better functional understanding of Soviet social control?!, at University of Chicago Russian-Soviet Studies Workshop (June 1997).

Soviet controls on information, at Yale University conference "Assessing the new Soviet archival sources" (May 1997), New Haven.

A la recherche d'un Komsomol perdu: Who really built Komsomol'sk-na-Amure, and why," at University of Chicago Russian-Soviet Studies Workshop (February 1997).

Yellow Peril, Red Army: The semi-advertent origins of Far Eastern militarization, at University of Chicago Russian-Soviet Studies Workshop (October 1996) and Midwest Russian History Workshop (October, 1996), Ann Arbor.

Voina i mir na Dal'nem Vostoke do vtorovoi mirovoi voiny: Neuzheli est' raznitsa?At International Conference in commemoration of victory in the Great Patriotic War, Khabarovsk, Russia (April 1995).

Mesto obveneniia v konstruktsii sovetskogo obshchestva.  At inter-university seminar, Totalitarianizma v opyte sovetskoi istorii, Vladivostok, Russia (February 1995).

Problematicheskii mir: Peresmotr Sovetsko-Iaponskogo pakta o neitralitete 1941-go g.  At Istoricheskii opyt osvoeniia vostochnykh raionov Rossii, Vladivostok, Russia (September 1993).

Rice, Rubber And Development Policies: The Mise-En-Valeur Of French Indochina On The Eve Of The Second World War.  At Annual Meeting, French Colonial History Society of America (May 1991), Mackinac Island MI.
 

FELLOWSHIPS

1998: Von Holst Lectureship, University of Chicago Dept. of History teaching-position award for undergraduate course based on dissertation.

1997–98: Social Science Research Council (SSRC) dissertation write-up fellowship.

1994–95: 12-month joint IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board) and Fulbright-Hayes Long-Term Individual Research grant for dissertation research in Russia.

1994: Mellon Foundation summer language training grant.

1993: University grant for preliminary dissertation research (Khabarovsk/Vladivostok, Russia).

1993: University grant for preliminary dissertation research (Ekaterinburg/Tomsk, Russia). 

1991–1994: Century Fellowship, University of Chicago.
 
 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2001: Lecturer, William Paterson University

2000: Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

1999: Lecturer, University of Chicago

1998–2001: Russian Press Service (Evanston Illinois).  Involved in the purchase, sale and worldwide distribution to libraries and other, primarily academic clients of books and periodicals from Russia and its near abroad.

1998: Von Holst Lecturer, University of Chicago: designed and taught Hist 430 178 01: Russia In Asia, a new undergraduate survey course based on my dissertation research.

1991–1993, 1996–1997: Research Assistant, University of Chicago Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick.

1996: Teaching Assistant for Spring Quarter of core-course Russian Civilization sequence [University of Chicago, Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick].

1990–96: Head Writer for World Watch International, a Kyoto-incorporated firm supplying topical curriculum materials to Japan’s academic and professional ESL markets.

1994: Teaching Assistant for Asian Wars Of The 20th Century [University of Chicago; Professor Bruce Cumings].

1992–1994: Researcher/analyst, for American Bar Foundation/Harris School of Public Policy (University Of Chicago) econometric study of racial differentials in earned income in the US between 1890 and 1966.

1991–92: Research Assistant, De Paul University Professor Beverly Firestone. 1986–87, 1990–91: Curriculum Development, Bi-Lingual, Inc., Tokyo, Japan.  In charge of development of English-language teaching materials for multinational, private-sector language-instruction company headquartered in Japan.  Authored/co-authored 7 language and/or current-affairs textbooks, specializing in East Asian international relations.

1975–86: Various positions in corporate headquarters of Kroch’s and Brentano’s, Inc., then the third-largest bookstore chain in the US.
 

LANGUAGES:

Russian: excellent reading knowledge and speaking ability.  High Pass on University of Chicago reading examination.  2 years experience using the language on a daily basis while in Russia.

French: excellent reading knowledge, good speaking ability.

Modern Japanese: fair reading knowledge, fair speaking ability.