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EDUCATION
EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Richmond (2003-). Courses on Russo-Soviet history, nationalism, the Cold War, historiography; history instruction in Russian within the Languages Across the Curriculum (LAC) program; curricular design; advising. Visiting Lecturer, Departments of History and Russian, Amherst College (2004-2005). Interdisciplinary seminars on historiography, Stalinist culture, nationalism. Lecturer, Committee on Degrees in History and Literature, Harvard University (1999-2002). Interdisciplinary courses on Imperial and Soviet-era Russian history and literature, curricular design, program administration, advising. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Connecticut College (2001). Research seminar on modern Russian history. Lecturer in Modern Russian History, Department of History, Yale University (2000-2001). Courses on modern Russian history survey, Stalinism; advised senior essays in History and Russian & East European Studies (REES).
BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS Propaganda State: Ideology, Indoctrination and Terror in the USSR, 1928-1939, 300pp (in preparation, 2003-). Political Humor under Stalin: An Anthology of Unofficial Jokes and Anecdotes, 100pp. (Bloomington: Slavica, forthcoming 2007). Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda, edited with Kevin M. F. Platt, 300 pp. + notes (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006). Reviewed in Choice 44:3 (2006): 487; 487; Reference & Research Book News (May 2006), 2975; Russian Review 66:1 (2007): 153-54; Acta Slavica Iaponica 24 (2007): 242-245; European History Quarterly 37 (2007): [forthcoming]; etc. National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956, 402 pp. + notes, appendix (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2002). Reviewed in Choice 40:11-12 (2003): 1996; History Today 53:5 (2003): 82; International Affairs 79:4 (2003): 918-919; Die Weltwoche (Switzerland), 12 December 2003, 54-62; Political Studies Review 2:1 (2004): 119-120; History 89:1 (2004): 158-159; Slavic Review 63:1 (2004): 197-198; American Historical Review 109:1 (2004): 288-289; Russian Review 62:3 (2004): 343-345; The Historian 66:3 (2004): 610-611; Journal of Modern History 76:3 (2004): 740-41; Canadian Journal of History 39:2 (2004): 373-375; Slavic and East European Journal 48:3 (2004): 497-499; Journal of Social History 38:2 (2004): 555-557; Left History 10:1 (2004): 182-185; International Review of Social History 49:3 (2004): 170; Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 71 (2005): 406-421; Jahrbuecher fuer Geschichte Osteuropas 54:1 (2006): 112-114; Otechestvennaia istoriia 4 (2006): 140-145; etc.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS "Stalin as Symbol: a Case Study of the Cult of Personality and its Construction," in Stalin: a New History, eds. Sarah Davies and James Harris (Cambridge University Press, 2005), 249-270. "Politics Projected into the Past: What Precipitated the 1936 Campaign against M. N. Pokrovskii?" in Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia: Essays in Honour of James D. White (London: Macmillan, 2006), 202-214. “The Popular Reception of S. M. Eisenstein’s Aleksandr Nevskii,” in Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda, co-edited with Kevin M. F. Platt (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), 233-252. “Terribly Pragmatic: Rewriting the History of Ivan IV’s Reign” (co-authored with Kevin M. F. Platt), in Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda, co-edited with Kevin M. F. Platt (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), 157-178. "Stalin, the Leningrad Affair, and the Limits of Postwar Russocentrism," Russian Review 63:2 (2004): 241-255. Note also Richard Bidlack's letter to the editor "Ideological or Political Origins of the Leningrad Affair: a Response to David Brandenberger," and my reply, "Ideology and Politics (Or Vice Versa)," Russian Review 64:1 (2005): 90-95, 96-97. "'...it is imperative to advance Russian nationalism as the first priority': Debates within the Stalinist Ideological Establishment, 1941-1945," in A State of Nations: Empire and State-Building in the Age of Lenin and Stalin, Ronald Grigor Suny and Terry Martin, eds. (New York: Oxford UP, 2001), 275-299.
COMMISSIONED PIECES "Russian National Identity, 1880-1945," in Nations and Nationalisms in Global Perspective: an Encyclopedia of Origins, Development and Contemporary Transitions, eds. Guntram H. Herb and David H. Kaplan (ABC-Clio, forthcoming), 14pp. "The Short Course (History of the All-Union Communist Party--Bolsheviks)," "Soviet Patriotism," in Dizionario del Comunismo, eds. Silvio Pons and Robert Service (Turin: Giulio Einaudi Editore, forthcoming), approx. 1200 wds. each. "Communist Academy," "Doctors' Plot," "Institute of Red Professors," "The Short Course (History of the All-Union Communist Party—Bolsheviks)," in Encyclopedia of Russian History, 4 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 2004), vol. 1: 299-300, 404-405; vol. 4: 1387-1388. "Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich," in Encyclopedia of Europe, 1914-2004, eds. Jay Winter, John Merriman, et al. (New York: Gale/Thomson, 2006), 2810-2812. "Raboty nizhegorodskikh shkol'nikov v svete predstavlenii zapadnoi sovetologii," in V. Pavlenkov and S. Maksudov, eds., Rossiia: vchera, segodnia, zavtra (Arlington, Mass.: FC Izdat, 1996), 233-237.
REVIEW ARTICLES
"Stalin’s Last Crime? Recent Scholarship on Postwar Soviet Anti-Semitism and the Doctors' Plot," Kritika 6:1 (2005): 187-204. "Imagined Community? Rethinking the Nationalist Origins of the Contemporary Chechen Crisis" (co-authored with Ehren Park), Kritika 5:3 (2004): 543-560.
REVIEWS "'Russian Identity: A Historical Survey,' by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky,” H-Net/Russia, forthcoming 2007, 3 pp. "'Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union,' by Geoffrey Hosking," Jahrbuecher fuer Geschichte Osteuropas 55 (2007): forthcoming, 2pp. "'Stalin: Profiles in Power,' by Hiroaki Kuromiya," American Historical Review 112:1 (2007): 310. "'What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa,' by David E. Murphy," The Historian 58 (2006): forthcoming, 2pp. "'Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination,' by Serhy Yekelchyk," Canadian Journal of History 40:1 (2005): 120-121. "'Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941-1945,' by Steven Merritt Miner," Journal of Cold War Studies 7:3 (2005): 196-197. "'Chechnya: Life in a War-Torn Society,' by Valery Tishkov," Cahiers du Monde russe 45:3-4 (2005): 753-755. "'The Teachers of Stalinism: Police, Practice, and Power in Soviet Schools of the 1930s,' by E. Thomas Ewing‚" American Historical Review 109:3 (2004): 1010-1111. "'Stalin's Secret Pogrom: the Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee,' edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Vladimir P. Naumov," Journal of Cold War Studies 6:3 (2004): 172-174. "'Stalin's Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1926-1936,' by Golfo Alexopoulos," Slavic Review 63:2 (2004): 412-413. "'Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices,' edited by David L. Hoffmann and Yanni Kotsonis," Canadian-American Slavic Studies 38:1-2 (2004): 220-222. "'The Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin's Russia,' by Maureen Perrie," Russian Review 62:1 (2003): 172-173. "'Reinventing Russia: Russian Nationalism and the Soviet State, 1953-1991,' by Yitzhak M. Brudny," Slavic and Eastern European Journal 44:3 (2000): 486-487. "'Stalinism in a Russian Province: a Study of Collectivization and Dekulakization in Siberia,' by James Hughes," Slavic and Eastern European Journal 43:4 (1999): 757-758. "'Obshchestvennoe mnenie v Sovetskoi Rossii v 30-e gody (po materialam Severo-zapada),' by S. A. Shinkarchuk," Russian Review 58:2 (1999): 338-339. "'Industry, State and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926-1934,' by David R. Shearer, and 'Factory and Community in Stalin's Russia: The Making of an Industrial Working Class,' by Kenneth M. Straus," Slavic and Eastern European Journal 43:2 (1999): 411-412. "'V plenu u krasnogo faraona: politicheskie presledovaniya evreev v SSSR v poslednee stalinskoe desyatiletie--dokumental'noe issledovanie,' by G. Kostyrchenko; 'Obvinyaetsya krov': dokumental'naya povest',' by A. Borshchagovskii; 'Out of the Red Shadows: Anti-Semitism in Stalin's Russia,' by Gennady Kostyrchenko," Europe Asia Studies 51:2 (1999): 347-350. "'Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning Among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929,' by Michael David-Fox," H-Net/Russia, May 11, 1998, 3 pp. (Permanently posted at www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews). "'Russkaya istoriya v pamyati krest'ian XIX veka i natsional'noe samosoznanie,' by A. V. Buganov," Europe-Asia Studies 50:3 (1998): 385-386. "'Moskva voennaya: memuary i arkhivnye dokumenty, 1941-45' and 'Leningrad v osade: sbornik o geroicheskoi oborone Leningrada v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny, 1941-44'," Europe-Asia Studies 49:5 (1997): 1140-1143. "Dramaturg meniaet professiiu: trud Radzinskogo--kompiliatsiia slukhov i faktov," Nezavisimaia gazeta (Ex Libris--Knizhnoe obozrenie), 3 July 1997, 6. "'Sekrety Gitlera na stole u Stalina: razvedka i kontrrazvedka o podgotovke germanskoi agressii protiv SSSR: dokumenty iz Tsentral'nogo arkhiva FSB,'" Europe-Asia Studies 49:5 (1997): 740-741. "'Stalin,' by Edvard Radzinsky," Europe-Asia Studies 49:1 (1997): 176-179. "'Stalin, Shcherbakov, Mekhlis i drugie,' by D. I. Ortenberg," Europe-Asia Studies 48:5 (1996): 1259-1260. "'The Soviet Economy and the Red Army, 1930-1945,' by Walter S. Dunn, Jr.," The Historian 48:3 (1996): 687-688. "'Iosif Stalin v ob"iatiiakh sem'i,' ed. by Iu. G. Murin and V. N. Denisov," Europe-Asia Studies 48:2 (1996): 468-469. "'Kremlevskie zheny,' by Larisa Vasil'eva," Europe-Asia Studies 48:2 (1996): 352-353. "Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925-1936,' ed. by Lars T. Lih, O. V. Naumov, and O. V. Khlevniuk," The Historian 48:2 (1996): 468-469.
Project Referee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) Council for the Humanities;International Research & Exchanges Board FSA Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program. Panel Discussant, “Socialist Media Cultures and Identity, 1950s-1970s.” Thirty-Fifth National Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (Salt Lake City). November 3-6, 2005. Manuscript Reviewer, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Macmillian Publishers (UK), Journal of Cold War Studies, Political Studies (UK), International Labor and Working-Class History, Acta Slavica Iaponica (Japan), Cahiers du Monde russe (France), The Russian Review, Slavonic and East European Quarterly (UK), etc. Advising & Residential Education Sub-Committee, University of Richmond Task Force on Undergraduate Education (TFUGE), 2003-2004. Resident Tutor, Currier House, Harvard University, with a leadership role in undergraduate academic advising, 2001-2003. Television interview and consultant for History Channel documentary “Stalin: Man of Steel,” June 2003 (broadcast October 6, 2003, at 12 am EST); “Underground Palaces: the Moscow Metro” (a segment of the series “The Most”), September 22, 2000 (broadcast December 22, 2000 at 8 pm EST). Selection Committee Member, International Research & Exchanges Board FSA Contemporary Issues Fellowship Program, Winter 2002. Member of Tutorial Board, Department of History, Harvard University. Responsible for directed-readings tutorial, honors thesis supervision, student advising, 2001-2002. Panelist, "Some of my Best Friends are Natsmeny: Stalinism and the Nationalities;" "'Socialist Competition' as a Labor Campaign in Stalinist Russia," Thirty-Second National Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (Denver, CO). November 9-12, 2000. Coordinator, "The Russian and East European History Workshop." Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Organized bi-monthly debates and paper presentations, 1999-2000 academic year. Speaker, "Back in the USSR or from Russia with Love? Student Life in Moscow in the 1990s," Department of Foreign Languages, University of Montana. April 15, 1999. Panelist, "The Dissertation: Strategies for Proceeding Through its Various Stages." Byerly Hall Forum, Harvard University (Cambridge MA). December 9, 1998. Panel Discussant, "The Soviet Countryside Revisited, 1929-1939: Case Studies and Synthetic Conclusions." Thirtieth National Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (Boca Raton, FL). September 24-27, 1998. Coordinator, "The Ukrainian Crucible: Rethinking Ethnicity, Nationalism, History and Culture in East Central Europe," Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) (Cambridge, Mass.). Organized monthly seminars, paper presentations and invited speakers, 1997-1998 academic year. Panelist, "Publishing in the NIS;" "Moscow Archives and Libraries;" "State of the Field of History in the Russian Federation." IREX Individual Advanced Research Opportunities in Eurasia 1997 Summer Orientation (Washington, DC). August 20-22, 1997. Panelist, "New Perspectives in Russian Education." Twenty-Ninth National Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (Seattle, WA). November 20-23, 1996.
GRANTS & AWARDS Willliam J. Fulbright Research Fellowship, 2007-2008. International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) / National Endowment for the Humanities / US Department of State Academic Year Fellowship, September 2007-March 2008. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship, 2007. Quest Course Development Grant, President’s Office for Special Projects, University of Richmond, 2006-2007 Summer Research Fellowship, University of Richmond A&S Faculty Research Committee, 2004, 2006 Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (DCRES), Harvard University, 2004-2007 Research Grant, University of Richmond A&S Faculty Research Committee, Spring 2004 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, DCRES, Harvard University, 2002-2003 Faculty Associate, DCRES, Harvard University, 2000-2002 Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard University, 1998-1999 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Abby and George O’Neill Short-Term Research Grant, DCRES, Harvard University, 1998-1999 Institute of Record Research Fellow, Open Society Archives (Soros affiliate), Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), September 1997-May 1998 International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) / NEH / US Department of State Academic Year Fellowship, July 1996-July 1997 Graduate Fellow, Harvard University Davis Center for Russian Studies (formerly the Russian Research Center), 1995-1996, 1996-1997, 1997-1998, 1998-1999 Graduate Writing Fellow, Harvard University Derek Bok Center, 1995-1996 History Department Representative, Graduate Student Council, 1995-1996 U.S. Department of Education Title IV FLAS Academic Year Fellowship, 1994-1995 U.S. Department of Education Title IV FLAS Summer Fellowship, 1994 Merle Fainsod Prize Fellowship, Russian Research Center, Harvard University, 1993-1994 Ernest R. Sandeen Research Award, Macalester College Department of History, 1992 Finalist, Gateway Prize for Excellent Academic Writing, Macalester College, 1990 |
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