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I was raised in Iowa, received a B.A. (1992) from the University of Wisconsin, and an M.A. (1996) and Ph.D. (2003) from The Ohio State University. I specialize in late Imperial Russian and early Soviet history, especially the revolutionary era, but I have broad research interests including peasant studies, inter-ethnic relations, popular politics, state building, citizenship, and the relationship between power and identity. I have received funding from Fulbright-Hays, the Social Science Research Council, the Kennan Institute, ACTR/USIA, and IREX and published several articles on political rituals and social and political changes in the countryside during the revolution. I teach courses in Russian, modern European, and world history.
Courses Taught
•HIS 1300 Western Civilization, 1500-1945
•HIS 1400 The World Since 1945
•HIS 5450/7450 Europe in the Interwar Period
•HIS 5490/7490 Russia to the Revolution
•HIS 5495/7495 Russian Revolution
•HIS 5500/7700 The Soviet Union
•HIS 8240 Graduate Seminar in Modern European History
•HIS 8410 Graduate Readings Seminar in World History
Research
Russia’s Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity, and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1914-1922 (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
A Kaleidoscope of Revolutions: Russia in Regional Perspective, 1914-1921, with Dr. Sarah Badcock (U. of Nottingham) and Liudmila Novikova (Moscow State University). Edited volume and international network of historians of Russia’s provinces and peripheries of the Revolution in progress.
In the Courts of Revolution: Vengeance, Legality, and Citizenship in the Rural Soviet Courtroom, 1917-1953. Long-term research project that examines how Russians understood the violence of wartime Russia to the Stalinist and legal rights in district courts, the Revolutionary Tribunal, and People’s Courts.
"Eastward Ho! Peasant Migratory Networks of Viatka Province During Peace and Revolution, 1850-1921," The Making of Russian History: Festschrift for Allan K. Wildman (in press, Slavica).
"Creating Peasant Citizens: Rituals of Power, Rituals of Citizenship in Viatka Province, February-October 1917," Revolutionary Russia, June 2003.
"Becoming Enlightened: National Backwardness and Revolutionary Ideology," Proceedings of the Ohio Academy of History 2002, 2003.
"Sotsial’nye konflikty v srede viatskogo krest’ianstva v khode provedeniia zemel’noi reformy v 1918 g." (Social Conflicts Among the Viatka Peasantry During the Implementation of the Land Reform in 1918), Nauchnyi vestnik. Kirovskogo filiala Moskovskogo gumanitarno ekonomicheskogo instituta. Nauchno-metodicheskii zhurnal, (Academic Bulletin of the Kirov Branch of the Moscow State Economic Institute. Academic-Methodological Journal) no. 5. Kirov, Russia, 2000.
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