Louis Porter
Assistant Professor
Email: l_p309@txstate.edu
Office: TMH 224
Primary Teaching Focuses:
European History; Russian History
Dr. Louis Howard Porter is a historian of Russia and Eurasia, with a research focus on Soviet internationalism and foreign policy during the Cold War. His book, Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2023), is the first archives-based history of the Soviet reception of the idea of world governance through international organization. Dr. Porter’s writings have also appeared in The Russian Review and The Slavic Review. Currently, he is launching research for a global, postmodern biography of Andrei Gromyko (1909-1989), who served as the top Soviet diplomat and face of the socialist country on the world stage for much of the Cold War.
At Texas State, Dr. Porter enjoys teaching all facets of Russian and Eurasian history to a diverse student population.
Select Publications
Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination
Oxford University Press | 2023
Reds in Blue investigates Soviet relations with one of the most prominent of these organizations, UNESCO, to present a novel way of thinking about the role of the United Nations in the Soviet experience of the Cold War.