Ph. D. Candidate (Passed comprehensive exams with distinction)
Adviser: Lewis Siegelbaum
Research Interests: Russia after 1945, Consumption, Material Culture, Masculinities, Sexualities
Office: 8 Morrill Hall
Courses Taught:
- HST 344 — Russia in the 20th Century (Spring 2012)
- HST 201 — Historical Methods and Skills (Fall 2009, Spring 2010)
Awards:
Milton Muelder Graduate Fellowship (Fall 2010)
FLAS Title VIII – Indiana University (Summer 2008)
Publications:
Review of Donald J. Raleigh, Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) in Past Tense: Graduate Review of History 1, no. 1 (2012): 141-143.
Review of Maya Eichler, Militarizing Men: Gender, Conscription, and War in Post-Soviet Russia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012) in Slovo 24, no. 2 (Autumn 2012).
Presentations:
“Substance Abuse in the Soviet 1960s: Lost Years Revisited” – 44th Annual Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Convention, New Orleans (November 2012)
“Not Just Your Everyday Hooligans: Narcotics, Serious Crime, and Soviet Youth Authorities in the 1960s” – Midwest Russian History Workshop, University of Chicago (April 2012)
“Soviet Women Battle the Green Dragon: Alcoholism and Female Voices in the (Re)construction of Masculinity after Stalin” – Windy City Conference, University of Illinois-Chicago (November 2011)
