119 Bowden Hall, Dept. of History, 1034 Austin Ave, NE.
Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30307
Atlanta, GA 30322 Telephone: 404/658-1100
Telephone: 404/727-4466
Fax: 404/727-4959
Emory University,
Associate Professor, Department of History 2001-present
Assistant Professor, Department of History 1995-2001
University of Illinois at Chicago, Visiting Professor, Russian History 1995
Education
University of Chicago Ph.D. 1995
“Turksib: The Building of the Turkestano-Siberian Railroad and the Politics of Production during the Cultural Revolution, 1926-1931.” (Dr. Sheila Fitzpatrick, advisor)
University of Chicago MA 1988
University of Chicago BA (Phi Beta Kappa) 1985
Book
Stalin’s Railroad: Turksib and Building Socialism. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2001.
“The Movie Turksib and Soviet Orientalism.”
The
Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Vol. 21, Number
1 (March 2001).
“The Making of a Kazakh Proletariat? The Unexpected Russification of Nativization Policies on the Turksib,” Peer reviewed article in Ronald Suny and Terry Martin, eds., A State of Nations: The Soviet State and its Peoples in the Age of Lenin and Stalin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
“Muscovy as the Basis for a Bureaucratic State?: A Critique of Maryanne Ozernoy’s “A Political History of the Russian Bureaucratic State.” Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 23, no. 1 (1996): 15-36.
“The Turksib: First-born of the Five-Year Plan." Russian History 15, nos. 2-4 (1988): 353-415.
Book Reviews
Kenneth M. Straus, Factory and Community in Stalin’s Russia, The Making of an Industrial Working Class, Journal of Modern History, vol. 71, no. 4 (December 1999): 1028-1030.
David R. Shearer, Industry, State, and Society in Stalin’s Russia, 1926-1934, ISIS: Journal of the History of Science Society, vol. 90, no. 1 (March 1999): 153-154.
Present Research
Honors
and Awards
The Emory College Center for Teaching and Curriculum 2002
Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences
Crystal Apple, The William H. Fox Award fro Emerging Excellence in Teaching and 2002
Service
Fellowships
University Research Council Grant (Almaty, Moscow) 2002
Social Sciences Research Council, Eurasian Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Alternate 1998-99
Halle Institute on Global Learning Fellow (Moscow) 1998
IREX Short-term Research Grant (Moscow) 1996
Mellon Dissertation Write-up Grant 1992-1993
International Research and Exchanges Board Long-term Soviet Research Grant 1991-1992
(Alma-Ata, Republic of Kazakhstan)
Papers
Presented:
“Red
Orientalism: The Making of a Socialist
Documentary on the Turksib Railroad.” 2000 National Convention of the American
Association of for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Denver, November 9-12,
2000.
“Nativization and its Discontents: Ethnic Preferences and Popular Racism on the Turksib, 1926-1931.” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Wilmington, NC, April 17, 2000.
“The
Making of a Kazakh Proletariat? The Unexpected Russification Effect of
Nativization Policies on the Turksib.” Mellon Foundation Conference
"Empire and Nation in the Soviet Union,” University of Chicago, October
24-26, 1997.
“Kazakhstan’s Party and Central Governmental Archives: Problems and Prospects.” Kennan Institute Conference on Assessing New Soviet Archival Sources at Yale University, May 16, 1997.
“The Making of a Native Working Class? Turksib and the Nativization Campaign during Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan.” Southern Slavic Association, Lexington, KY March 22, 1997.
"Affirmative Action, Discrimination and Popular Racism during the Construction of the Turkestano-Siberian Railroad, 1926-1931." Midwest Russian History Workshop, University of Chicago, October 16-17, 1992.
National Service
Organizations:
Co-Chair,
Program Committee for 2000 Conference, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Co-organizer,
Southeast Workshop on Russian and Soviet History (with Alex Martin of
Oglethorpe University), through REES, August, 1998-present.
Grant Referee:
Outside Reviewer for American Councils for
International Education’s (ACTR/ACCELS) Research Scholar Program Grant in
Central Asia.
Peer Reviewer:
For Carl Beck Papers. 2002 (Author Confidential).
For Nationalities Papers. 2000
(Paper and Author Confidential).
For Carl Beck Papers. 2000 (Author Confidential).
John Keep, The Destalinization of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991 (Routledge Press) 1998.
David Sneath and Caroline Humphrey, The End of Nomadism? Culture and Environment in Central Asia (Duke University Press) 1997.
University
Service
College Committee on Academic Standards 1997-2000.
Director of Undergraduate Studies 2002-present
Coordinator, Seminar on the Comparative History of Labor, 1997/98, 2001-2003
Industrialization, Technology, and Society (SCHLITS)
Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Faculty Advisor 1996-2001
Professional Consultation/Service
WGST
Radio Program, “Atlanta's First News with Jeff Hullinger.” 1999
Discussion of Russian Involvement in Kosovo Crisis
CNN “Q & A.” Commented on Burial of Tsar’s Family. 1998
Needle & Rosenberg, PLC. Advisor, Soviet technical citation. 1998
CNN Interactive News Division. Advise on Cold War forced migration policies. 1998
Powell, Goldstein, Frazier & Murphy. 1997-1998
Advisor on Russian/Soviet law for trademark case (Smirnov v. Smirnov).
Turner Broadcast Network, “Treasures of the Tsars.” Historical commentary. 1997
Courses
Making of Modern Europe (History 202), Imperial Russia (History 319), The Soviet Union (History 320), Medieval and Muscovite Russia (History 326), Russian Intellectual History (History 385J), Women in Russia (History 487G/WS 384P), Stalinism (History 487J), Violence in Russia (History 487K), Soviet Social History, 1917-1939 (History 487L), Russia in Revolution (History 487Q), Biography and Revolution (History 498R), Studies in European History (History 500), Seminar on the Comparative History of Labor, Industrialization, Technology and Society (History 537), Peasants in Russia (History 585Q), Reading Course in East European History (History 597R), Reading Course in Russian/Soviet Public Health (History 597R), Introduction to College Teaching (History 786A).
May 2002