Education and Academic Career
Poe graduated from Wichita High School Southeast in 1980. He earned a B.A. at Grinnell College in 1984 and his Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Berkeley in 1992.
He taught at Harvard University until 1998, and again from 2000 to 2002, during which time he was appointed Allston Burr Senior Tutor at Harvard's Lowell House. He has held fellowships at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard; the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; and the Harriman Institute for Russian Studies at Columbia University.
At the Institute for Advanced Study, Poe played guitar in a rock and roll band called "Do Not Erase," consisting entirely of fellows at the Institute. The name of the band is a phrase known at the institute because it is what mathematicians and others will write under their long theorems and proofs on chalk boards, especially if their equations have discovered something new.
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