Faculty Profiles

Dr. Louis Porter

Faculty Co-Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta. August 25, 2025 - Present.
Member, Search Committee: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of the History of Science and Technology. May 5, 2025 - Present.
Member, Graduate College Liberal Arts Scholarship Committee. January 13, 2025 - Present.
Member, Student Awards and Scholarships Committee. August 26, 2024 - Present.
Graduate Awards Coordinator, Graduate Studies Committee. August 20, 2023 - Present.
Member, Graduate Studies Committee. August 22, 2022 - Present.
Member, Library Committee. August 22, 2022 - Present.

Reviewer / Referee, Hungarian Historical Review. September 17, 2025 - September 29, 2025.
Participant, New Graduate Student Orientation. August 20, 2025.
Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta. January 20, 2025 - May 13, 2025.
Commentator, History Department Theses Prospectus Defense. April 22, 2025.
Participant, Bobcat Day. February 22, 2025.
Reviewer / Referee, Arizona State University Title VIII Awards Program. February 14, 2025 - February 18, 2025.
Reviewer / Referee, Bloomsbury Press. December 16, 2024 - January 20, 2025.

Chair, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Committee. January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024.
Faculty Co-Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta. August 20, 2023 - December 31, 2024.
Member, Senior Seminar Committee. May 1, 2024 - December 6, 2024.
Chair, Panel, Cultural Bureaucracy During the Cold War," Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention. November 24, 2024.
Chair, Panel, Late Soviet International Entanglements," Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Annual Convention. November 22, 2024.
Member, Fulbright Undergraduate Interview Committee. September 17, 2024.
Reviewer / Referee, Palgrave Press. August 18, 2024 - August 22, 2024.
Participant, New Student Orientation (Graduate Program). August 21, 2024.
Reviewer / Referee, Contemporary European History. May 31, 2024 - June 15, 2024.
Mentor, Mentoring Program. August 20, 2023 - May 1, 2024.
Reviewer, College Level Examination Program for Western Civilization Exams. August 22, 2022 - May 1, 2024.
Commentator, History Department Theses Prospectus Defense. April 30, 2024.
Referee, Texas State Undergraduate Research Journal. April 3, 2024 - April 10, 2024.
Reviewer / Referee, Arizona State University Title VIII Awards Program. February 9, 2024 - February 20, 2024.
Mentor, Undergraduate Think Tank. June 1, 2023 - January 10, 2024.

Member, Association for Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies Committee. January 1, 2022 - December 31, 2023.
Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Global History. September 1, 2023 - December 20, 2023.
Attendee / Participant, Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. November 29, 2023 - December 3, 2023.
Participant, History Department Outreach Table. November 8, 2023.
Reviewer / Referee, Slavic Review. September 20, 2023 - October 31, 2023.
Attendee / Participant, Texas Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference. September 23, 2023.
Member, Graduate Fulbright Campus Committee. August 1, 2023 - August 22, 2023.
Speaker, Graduate Program New Student Orientation. August 16, 2023.
Commentator, Phi Alpha Theta 2023 Annual Conference. April 22, 2023.
Reviewer, Library Committee. March 1, 2023 - March 20, 2023.

Reviewer / Referee, The Russian Review. October 13, 2022 - December 13, 2022.
Chair, REEES Undergraduate Think Tank Panel, Part II. November 11, 2022.
Member, Graduate Fulbright Campus Committee. August 1, 2022 - September 1, 2022.
Member, Speakers Committee. August 23, 2021 - May 1, 2022.
Participant, Bobcat Day. April 9, 2022.
Speaker, Menchaca Elementary School. March 21, 2022.
Chair, American Historical Association Panel: Roundtable. February 22, 2022.
Speaker, Kennan Institute–Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. February 17, 2022.
Reviewer / Referee, Arizona State University Title VIII Awards Program. January 29, 2022 - February 10, 2022.
Mentor, Undergraduate Think Tank. May 26, 2021 - January 7, 2022.

Mentor, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Mentoring Program. September 16, 2021 - December 31, 2021.
Commentator, Swinney Writing Group. September 17, 2021.
Speaker, Graduate Program. August 19, 2021.
Member, Library Committee. August 24, 2020 - May 1, 2021.
Moderator, Kennan Institute—Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Forum. February 23, 2021.
Member, Ad-hoc Evaluation and Reappointment Compliance Committee. September 24, 2020 - January 1, 2021.

Coordinator / Organizer, Conference Panel: “On the World Stage: Soviet Culture and Knowledge Production during the Cold War,” Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). January 5, 2020 - November 8, 2020.
Chair, Think Tank: Undergraduate Presentations, Part 1, Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). November 6, 2020.

Chair, Roundtable: Research on the Holodomor by Different Disciplines, UNC-Chapel Hill Conference on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Holodomor for the 85th Anniversary of the Holodomor in Ukraine. October 5, 2018.

Chair, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Panel on Soviet International History. March 13, 2017.