Education
Born in Washington, District of Columbia, Thurston graduated high school outside of Cleveland and received his undergraduate education at Northwestern University, studying Russian to complement his history degree.
historian university professor
Born in Washington, District of Columbia, Thurston graduated high school outside of Cleveland and received his undergraduate education at Northwestern University, studying Russian to complement his history degree.
He has published a variety of papers and books on these topics. He has given talks in recent years in the United States., Britain, France, Nicaragua, and China on coffee and consumption patterns. Current project is The Body in the Anglo-Saxon World, 1885-1920: Reshaping Race, Sexuality, and Civilization, book
The work examines presentations of the body in the circus, photography, ads, sports, and the new field of anthropology, and how treatment of images of the body affected discussion of what human beings were and how they behaved.
He went on to earn a doctorate in modern from the University of Michigan. He spent several years living in Russia, and eventually moved to Oxford, Ohio, where he taught history at Miami University for 25 years until his retirement in 2015.
In November 1992, Thurston argued in The Chronicle of Higher Education that the June 1992 exhibit entitled "Revelations from the Russian Archives", which was held at the Library of Congress, was overly biased against the Soviet Union. The reporter Arnold Beichman, writing for the right-wing Insight on the News newspaper, condemned Thurston for these statements, arguing that "something is drastically wrong with American social sciences" if The Chronicle of Higher Education allowed his comments to be published.
In 2012, Thurston cofounded the Oxford Company in Oxford, Ohio.