Faculty

I have been teaching Russian and European history at Michigan State University for more than a quarter of a century. I migrated from labor history to the history of consumption and material culture in the Soviet Union with some digressions along the way, and in the process shifted my attention from the Stalin era to the late Soviet period. I am co-author of the award-winning website Seventeen Moments in Soviet History (www.soviethistory.org) and my most recent book, Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile (2008), was awarded two prizes by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies at its convention in November 2009. No less satisfying was the fact that Road & Track made the book a Christmas gift suggestion. I have just embarked on a macro-project with Leslie Page Moch on migration in Russian political space across the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods.