CURRICULUM VITAE

Educational Experience

Ph. D., History, Brown University, 1997

Concentration: Russian and Soviet History, 1861–1953

Fields and advisors:

Russian/Soviet History, 1861–1953 Prof. Abbott Gleason

Russian History, 1689–1861 Prof. Patricia Herlihy

Modern Latin American History Prof. Thomas Skidmore

Modern German History Prof. Volker Berghahn

M.A., History, Columbia University, 1987

B.A., History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1983 (with honors in the major)

Major field: Russian and Soviet History

Minor field: Modern Iranian History

Fellowships and Awards

Winthrop Research Council grants (for research in Russia and Great Britain), 1999, 2001

Individual Advanced Research Opportunity, International Research and Exchanges Board (for research in Russia), January–July 1999.

Alternate, Postdoctoral Fellowship, Eurasia Program, Social Science Research Council, 1998-2000.

Research Scholar Program, American Council of Teachers of Russian, 1995–96 (declined).

Short-Term Grant, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., December 1992–January 1993.

Long-Term Research Grant, International Research and Exchanges Board (for research in the Soviet Union), 1991–1992.

Graduate Training Fellowship in Russian and Soviet Studies, Joint Committee on Soviet Studies of the Social Science Research Council, 1985–1987.

Chancellor’s Undergraduate Award, UC Santa Cruz (for B.A. Thesis), June 1983.

Teaching Experience

1998– Assistant Professor of History, Winthrop University. Teaching both introductory and

advanced courses, student advising. Awarded tenure May 2004. Courses taught:

History 101 World to 1500

History 102 World since 1500

History 344 Europe, 1789–1914

History 345 Europe since 1914

History 350 The First World War

History 546 Europe, 1918–45

History 547 Russia since 1861

History 548 Germany since 1862

History 560 Mexico since 1820

History 640 The Russian Revolution

1995–98 Instructor, University of Colorado, Boulder. In addition to teaching both large and small lectures, and seminars, developed History 4733 as an extension course offered over the World Wide Web, and taught it from 1998 to 2001. Courses taught:

History: Western Civilization since 1648 (including honors sections); Revolutions in History: Russia and Mexico; Revolutions in History: Russia, 1881–1939; Seminar: “Narod: Peasants and Workers under the Last Tsars”; Seminar: “Representations of the 1930s USSR”; Seminar: “Zamyatin’s We”; Comparative Communism (with Dr. T. Weston); Imperial Russia, 1682–1917; Twentieth-Century Russia

“The Cotton Textile Industry in Russia and the Soviet Union,” in Covering the World: A Global History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000, ed. Lex Heerma van Voss, Els Hiemstra-Kuperus and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (Aldershot, U.K., and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, forthcoming).

“Cotton Textiles,” Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, vol. 7 (Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 2006), 87–94.

“Labor,” “Pogrom,” and “Soviet,” entries in The Encyclopedia of Russian History (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004).

“Neither Peasant nor Proletarian: The Workers of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Region, 1885–1905,” doctoral dissertation, Brown University, May 1997.

“The Saints of the Revolution: Political Activists in 1890s Ivanovo-Voznesensk and the Path of Most Resistance,” Slavic Review 54, no. 2 (Summer 1995): 276–304.

“E.N. Trubetskoi, P.B. Struve, and Moskovskii ezhenedel’nik, 1905–1911,” M.A. Thesis, Columbia University, January 1987.

“The Moscow Bolsheviks in 1917,” B.A. Thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, February 1983.

Laura Engelstein, Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale, in Canadian-American Slavic Studies (forthcoming).

Laura L. Phillips, Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900–1929, in Canadian-American Slavic Studies 37, no. 4 (Winter 2003): 42–43.

Jonathan Aves, Workers against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship, in Russian History 26, no. 4 (Winter 1999): 437–38.

Vladimir N. Brovkin, ed., The Bolsheviks in Russian Society, in History: Reviews of New Books 26, no. 3 (Spring 1998): 141–42.

Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution, H-Net (http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=28393904247225), February 1998.

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Stalin’s Peasants, in Società e storia, no. 77 (1997): 722–25.

Robert Weinberg, The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa, in Società e storia, no. 71 (1996):230–32.

Katerina Clark, Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution, in History: Reviews of New Books 24, no. 4 (Summer 1996): 190.

“The Cotton Textile Industry in Russia and the Soviet Union,” paper for “A Global History of Textile Workers, 1650-2000,” conference, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, November 2004 (http://www.iisg.nl/research/russia.doc).

Commentator, “Practices and Institutions in Imperial Russia,” Spring Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Savannah, March 2003.

Participant, “The Peasant-Worker Nexus,” roundtable, Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, November 2002.

“Murder by Crowd, or, the Death of a Factory Director,” conference paper, Annual Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Denver, Colorado, November 2000.

“The Pogrom as Protest: Towards a Theory of the Pogrom as an Instrument of Popular Power,” conference paper, Spring Meeting of the SCSS, Wilmington, N.C., March 2000.

“The Instrumental Bunt: ‘Spontaneous’ Violence as a Calculated Tool of Popular Resistance,” conference paper, AAASS Conference, Seattle, November 1997.

Participant, “Hegemonic Discourse in the Russian Labor and Revolutionary Movements, 1900–1917,” roundtable, AAASS Conference, Seattle, November 1997.

“The Workers’ Task: Worker Activists’ Attitudes toward Intelligentsia Leadership,” conference paper, AAASS Conference, Boston, November 1996.

“A Pogrom beyond the Pale: Ivanovo-Voznesensk, October 1905,” discussion paper, Harvard University Russian Research Center Historians’ Seminar, February 1994.

“A Shot in the Dark: The Teikovo Incident of 1895,” conference paper, Annual Conference of the New England Slavic Association, Providence, R.I., April 1993.

“Ivanovo-Voznesensk in 1905,” conference paper, Annual Conference of Ivy League Graduate Students in Russian and Soviet Studies, Cambridge, Mass., April 1988.