Curriculum Vitae
JULIE FEDOR
Address Memory at War project
Department of Slavonic Studies
MML Faculty
Sidgwick Site
University of Cambridge
Cambridge CB3 9DA
Tel. BH: 01223 760820
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EDUCATION
2009 PhD in History
King’s College, University of Cambridge
Thesis topic: Constructing the Chekist:
The Cult of State Security in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
2000 M.A. (First Class Honours)
History Department, University of Melbourne
Thesis topic: Militarism vs. Maternalism under Gorbachev:
The Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers and the Soviet Military’s Legitimacy Crisis
1997 B. A. (Hons.) majoring in History and Russian
(First Class Honours)
University of Melbourne
1989 Advanced Diploma of Russian Language
Pushkin Institute of Russian Language and Literature, Moscow
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
From July 2010 Research Associate
University of Cambridge
Department of Slavonic Studies
‘Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine’ (Humanities in the European Research Area Joint Research Programme project)
2009-2010 Teaching Fellow in Modern History
University of St Andrews
School of History
2008-09
and
2005-07 Lecturer in Modern Russian History
University of Birmingham
Centre for Russian and East European Studies
2002-05 Supervisor and occasional lecturer
University of Cambridge
History Faculty and Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
1998-2000 Tutor and guest lecturer
University of Melbourne
History Department
PUBLICATIONS
Remembering Katyn (Polity Press, forthcoming 2012) (co-authored with Alexander Etkind, Rory Finnin, Uilleam Blacker, Simon Lewis, Maria Mälksoo and Matilda Mroz)
Russia and the Cult of State Security (Routledge Studies in Intelligence Series, 2011)
‘Chekists Look Back on the Cold War’, Intelligence and National Security, 26:2 (2011)
‘The Changing Face of Repression under Khrushchev’, in Melanie Ilic and Jeremy Smith, eds, Soviet State and Society under Khrushchev (Routledge, 2009), pp. 142-61
‘From the Okhrana to the KGB: Russia’s Secret Police’, Twentieth-Century History Review, vol. 2, no. 3 (April 2007), pp. 10-15
‘Partners in Crime’, London Review of Books, vol. 29, no. 5, 8 March 2007, pp. 43-4 (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n05/elkn01_.html)
‘Dedovshchina and the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers under Gorbachev’, in Françoise Daucé and Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski, eds, Dedovshchina in the Post-Soviet Military: Hazing of Russian Army Conscripts in a Comparative Perspective (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2006), pp. 144-74 (also published in Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, no. 1 (July 2004) (fully refereed online journal) (http://www.pipss.org/index243.html)
‘Spiritual Security in Putin’s Russia’, History and Policy, no. 26 (2006) (published online by the University of Cambridge’s History and Policy: http://www.historyandpolicy.org/archive/pol-paper-print-26.html)
‘Stalin and Foreign Intelligence’ (with Christopher Andrew), in Harold Shukman, ed., Redefining Stalinism (London: Frank Cass, 2003), pp. 69-94 (also published in Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, vol. 4, no. 1 [Summer 2003], pp. 69-94)
‘Rethinking Yermolov’s Legacy: New Patriotic Narratives of Russia’s Engagement with Chechnya’, in Stephen G. Wheatcroft, ed., Challenging Traditional Views of Russian History (Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), pp. 203-16
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