International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences
National Research University — Higher School of Economics
Petrovka 12 • rm. 222 • Moscow 127051 • Russian Federation
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EMPLOYMENT
National Research University — Higher School of Economics, Moscow
2015–16 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences
EDUCATION
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2014 PhD in Russian and East European History
2009 MA in Russian and East European History
Indiana University Bloomington
2006 BA with Distinction in History and Slavic Languages & Literatures
PUBLICATIONS
“Corn Crusade: An Industrial Farming Revolution and the Soviet System after Stalin” book manuscript in progress, under review with Oxford University Press
“The Soviet Union, the United Sates, and Industrial Agriculture in a Web of Cold War–Era Global Exchange,” article forthcoming in The Journal of World History 26, no. 2 (2015)
“Industrial Farming, Industrial Food: Transnational Influences on Soviet Convenience Food in the Khrushchev Era,” in Soviet and Post–Soviet Review 42, no. 2 (2015)
“Toward an Agrarian History of the Postwar Soviet Union, 1945–1987,” article manuscript in progress
“‘The Chairman Is Still Cheating Us’: The Political Economy of Collective Farmers’ Labor after Stalin,” article forthcoming in a 2016 special conference issue of Remapping «区域», a journal published by Social Sciences Academic Press, Beijing
PRIZES and AWARDS
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
2015 Finalist, Robert C. Tucker–Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
2015 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in Humanities and Fine Arts
Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
2014 Graduate Student Essay Prize
GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
American Councils for International Education Title VIII Research Scholar Program
2014 Advanced Research Fellowship, Moscow
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
2013–14 Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Institute for International Education, Moscow
2011–12 Graduate Fellowship for International Dissertation Research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of History
2010 Mowry Dissertation Grant
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
2009 Summer Research Lab on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia Grant
Duke University Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
2008 Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship
2009–10 Foreign Language and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship
2008–9 Foreign Language and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship
2007–8 Foreign Language and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship
BOOK REVIEWS
Denis Kozlov and Eleonory Gilburd, eds., The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013), in Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia 4, no. 2 (2015)
J. Arch Getty, Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), in Tractus Aevorum 2, no. 1 (2015)
Robert Hornsby, Protest, Reform, and Repression in Khrushchev’s Soviet Union (Cambridge University Press, 2013), in Canadian Slavonic Papers 56, no. 1–2 (2014)
CONFERENCE PAPERS, CONFERENCE PANELS, and PRESENTATIONS
American Models of Industrial Farming and Khrushchev’s Corn Crusade • Research Seminar of the International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and Its Consequences, Moscow, December 2015
Roundtable: Teaching Russian History in the Post–Cold War Classroom • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, November 2015
“The Chairman Is Still Cheating Us”: The Political Economy of Collective Farmers’ Labor after Stalin • Twentieth Century Socialism: Ideas and Practices in Soviet Russia and China, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, September 2015
Hybrid Corn Seed and the Circulation of Commodities under Khrushchev • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX, November 2014
Corn and Khrushchev’s Revolutionary Vision of Consumerist Cornucopia • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Boston, MA, November 2013
Corn, Khrushchev’s Reforms, and Soviet Industrial Agriculture in Global Context • Carolina Seminar: Russia and Its Empires, East and West, Chapel Hill, NC, October 2013
Midcentury Middle America: The Soviet Agricultural Delegation of 1955 and Its Impressions of American Society and Culture • Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, Greensboro, NC, March 2013
Corn for Comrades: The Soviet Union, The United States, and the Industrial Ideal in Agriculture • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill History Department Research Colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC, November 2012
Roundtable: James Scott’s High Modernism and Soviet History: Still a Useful Approach? • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, November 2012
A Problem of “Material Interest”: Collective Farm Labor and Incentives in Post-Stalin Agricultural Reforms • Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA, November 2012
Khrushchev Sells the Corn Campaign: Political Mobilization Strategies, 1953–1964 • Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History, Columbia, SC, April 2010
Khrushchev Sells the Corn Campaign: Political Mobilization Strategies, 1953–1964 • Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, Gainesville, FL, March 2010
For Peace and Friendship of All Countries: Soviet Citizens’ Opinions of Peace during the Cold War, May 1960 • Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, Charlottesville, VA, March 2009
RESEARCH FIELDS
global history • Modern Europe • Eastern Europe • Russia and the Soviet Union • the Khrushchev era • social history • political history • agricultural history • the state socialist economy • environmental history • technology • food
RESEARCH LANGUAGES and TRANSLATIONS
Russian, French
Translator of Oleg Khlevniuk, “Top–Down vs. Bottom-Up: Regarding the Potential of Contemporary ‘Revisionism’,” forthcoming in Cahiers du monde russe, translated with Angelina Lucento
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Elon University Department of History and Geography
Farming and Food during the Age of Globalization (Winter 2015)
The World in the Twentieth Century (Fall 2014 (2 sections))
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of History
The World since 1945 (Fall 2014, Summer 2013)
The World since 1945 (Carolina Courses Online, Fall 2014)
Duke University Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies
Sports, Economics, and Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe (Spring 2014)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of History, Courses Assisted
The World since 1945 (Spring 2013, Fall 2010)
Medieval Russia: Icons, Mongols, and Mayhem (Undergraduate Seminar, Spring 2013)
Medieval History (Fall 2012)
Russia since 1861 (Spring 2011)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
2013–15 Member
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
2008–15 Member
Agricultural History Society
2015–16 Member
Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
2008–15 Member
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate History Society
2012–13 Graduate Studies Committee Representative
2012–13 Residency Coordinator
2011–12 Co–President
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate and Professional Student Federation
2013–14 Senator
Carolina Seminar “Russia and Its Empires, East and West”
2013–14 Co–Convener
2012–13 Graduate Assistant
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