Geoffrey Durham

Geoffrey Durham is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in modern Eurasian history with emphasis on imperial Russia's eighteenth and nineteenth century international entanglements. His research examines imperial integration mechanisms and Russia's global contextualization through standardization processes.

His academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania
• M.A. from Indiana University
• B.A. from Skidmore College

Durham's scholarship centers on two core inquiries: how the Russian empire incorporated diverse territories and peoples into its administrative framework, and how it interacted within global systems. His book project "Autocracy and the Politics of Standardization in the Russian Empire" analyzes how weights, measures, and currency reforms facilitated imperial revenue extraction and commercial exchange while participating in European civilization's globalization. Current supplementary projects investigate platinum mining in nineteenth-century Russia and alternative political cultures of tsarist governance.

Durham instructs History 201 (Global History of Unfree Labor), History 229 (Empires in Eurasia), and History 418 (History of Imperial Russia). No details regarding student advising or research grants appear in the source material.