Igor Lukes
Igor Lukes
745 Commonwealth Avenue
6th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
(617) 358-1776
(617) 353-5084 fax
lukes@bu.edu
Professor of International Relations and History; (BA/MA, PhDr, Charles University, Prague; MALD, PhD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University).
Specialization: Central European History, East European Politics, Contemporary Russia.
Igor Lukes is a historian of Central Europe in the twentieth century. He has written about Europe between the world wars and about contemporary developments in East Central Europe, Russia, and the Balkans.
His work has been published in a number of foreign countries and in such periodicals as Journal of Contemporary History, Diplomacy & Statecraft, Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte, Stredni Evropa, Historie a vojenstvi, and Slavic Review. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Professor Lukes has systematically worked in the newly opened archives in Prague. This work provided the foundation for his book, Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930’s. Published by Oxford University Press in 1996, the book won the Boston Authors Club Award as well as the Kahn Award. He is also a co-author and/or co-editor of The Munich Conference, 1938: Prelude to World War II (1999), Inside the Apparat: Perspectives on the Soviet Union (1990) and Gorbachev’s USSR: A System in Crisis (1990).
His work has won the support of various prestigious institutions, including the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC; IREX; and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship for research, and in 1997 he won the Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University.
Professor Lukes teaches the following courses:
Central Europe (IR/HI 341)
The Reemergence of Russia (IR 542)