Curriculum
Bassin gained his Ph.D at the University of California-Berkeley in 1983. He has taught at UCLA, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and University College London, and held visiting positions at the Universities of Chicago, Copenhagen, and Pau (France). He is currently holds a Professorship in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham.
He got personal fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Kennan Institute, Remarque Institute NYU, American Academy (Berlin), Slavic Research Center (Sapporo), and Institute for European History (Mainz). His research has also been supported by grants from the AHRC, British Academy, DAAD, NCEEER, NEH, and the Ford Foundation.
From 1996-2004 he served as Secretary for the Commission for the History of Geographic Thought of the International Geographical Union.
He has been a consultant for the World Economic Forum, and is a founding member of the Valdai Forum in Moscow, in which capacity he meets yearly with the Russian President and members of his government.
Bassin is since 1999 Associate Editor for the journal Geopolitics.
His most important publication has been Imperial Visions.
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