The Author: Mauricio Borrero is Associate Professor of History at St. John’s University in New York. He received his doctoral degree from Indiana University, held a Title VIII fellowship at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, and taught at the University of Oregon before coming to St. John’s, where he is now Acting Chair of the History Department. He has also published articles on communal dining and the politics of scarcity in early Soviet Russia.

The Author: Mauricio Borrero is Associate Professor of History at St. John’s University in New York. He received his doctoral degree from Indiana University, held a Title VIII fellowship at the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, and taught at the University of Oregon before coming to St. John’s, where he is now Acting Chair of the History Department. He has also published articles on communal dining and the politics of scarcity in early Soviet Russia.