Mary Neuburger is Professor of History, Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. focus is on modern eastern Europe with a specialization in southeastern Europe. Her research interests include urban culture, consumption, commodity exchange, gender and nationalism. Her most recent book, Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria (Cornell, 2012) explores the production, exchange, and consumption of tobacco in Bulgaria (and beyond) in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Mary Neuburger
