Month: February 2013

Lewis Siegelbaum has just published “Those Elusive Scouts: Pioneering Peasants and the Russian State, 1870s-1950s,”

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Lewis Siegelbaum has just published “Those Elusive Scouts: Pioneering Peasants and the Russian State, 1870s-1950s,” in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol. 14, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 31-60. “Those Elusive Scouts” refers to the peasant practice of sending out members of their community to inspect… Continue Reading Lewis Siegelbaum has just published “Those Elusive Scouts: Pioneering Peasants and the Russian State, 1870s-1950s,”

Dr. Susan Sleeper-Smith receives a NEH award

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The National Endowment for the Humanities Committee on Awards has voted to offer Professor Susan Sleeper-Smith a fellowship for her project “Gender, Race and Empire: Mapping State Formation through the Lives of Indian Women.” The fellowship is for research at the Newberry Library in Chicago… Continue Reading Dr. Susan Sleeper-Smith receives a NEH award

Doctoral Candidate Ben Sawyer to present at UNC this week

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Doctoral Candidate Ben Sawyer will be presenting his work at the Carolina Seminar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His paper is entitled “American Immigration and the Making of Nep-Era Soviet Immigration Policy.” For more information about this exciting opportunity, please see the… Continue Reading Doctoral Candidate Ben Sawyer to present at UNC this week