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PAULA A. MICHAELS
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Business Address: Department of History University of Iowa, Iowa City Iowa 52242 |
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Associate Professor of Russian/Soviet history,
2003-present.
Assistant Professor of Russian/Soviet history, 1997-2003.
Teaching responsibilities include:
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The Soviet Union, 1945-91 |
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The History of Stalinism |
Graduate Research Seminar in Soviet History |
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
Ph.D., 1997 in Russian and Soviet history.
Dissertation: “Shamans and Surgeons: Folk Medicine
and the Politics of Public Health in Kazakhstan, 1928-41.” Director: Donald J.
Raleigh.
M.A., 1991 in Russian and Soviet history.
Master's Thesis: “Red Sands: Collectivization in
Kazakhstan, 1928-32.”
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
B.A., 1987 in History and Russian Studies. Elected
to Phi Beta Kappa; departmental honors in history.
Honor's Thesis: “Soviet Experimentation in Communal
Childrearing: The 1920s and the 1950s.”
PUBLICATIONS
Curative Powers:
Medicine and Empire in Stalin’s Central Asia (University of Pittsburgh
Press, April 2003).
“Mobilizing Medicine:
Medical Cadres, State Power, and Center-Periphery Relations in Wartime
Kazakhstan,” in Provincial
Landscapes: The Local Dimensions of Soviet Power. Donald J. Raleigh,
ed. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001: 217-35.
“Ethnicity, Patriotism, and Womanhood: Kazakhstan
and the 1936 Ban on Abortion,” Feminist Studies 27, no. 2 (2001):
307-33.
“Medical Propaganda and Cultural Revolution in
Soviet Kazakhstan,” Russian Review 59 (April 2000): 159-78. [available
online at Ingenta]
“Medical Traditions, Kazakh Women, and Soviet
Medical Politics to 1941,” Nationalities Papers 26, no. 3 (1998):
493-509.
“Kazak
Women: Living the Heritage of a Unique Past,” in Women
in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity. Herbert L. Bodman and
Nayereh E. Tohidi, eds. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998: 187-202.
“Soiuz
Koshchi i kollektivizatsiia v Kazakhstane [The Union of Tillers and
Collectivization in Kazakhstan],” in Proceedings of the Third Scientific
Readings in Memory of Orientalist V.P. Iudin. Almaty, 1996.
“Ninety
Winds of Change: The 1986 Alma-Ata Riots and the Mobilization of Kazak Ethnic
Identity,” Michigan Discussions in Anthropology 12 (1996): 39-49.
WORKS IN
PROGRESS
Between Laughter and Tears: Soviet Film Comedy,
National Identity, and Everyday Life, 1956-91 (expected completion 2007).
“Prisoners
of the Caucasus: From Colonial to Post-Colonial Narrative,” Russian
Studies in Literature (forthcoming 2003).
“Meditsina i sovetskaia
vlast’ v stalinskom Kazakhstane [Medicine and Soviet Power in Stalinist
Kazakhstan],” Jurgenev Academy of Art Review (under consideration)
FELLOWSHIPS
AND HONORS
Arts and Humanities
Initiative Grant, University of Iowa, summer 2003.
Flexible Load, University of
Iowa, Spring 2002.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Eurasian
Studies, Social Science Research Council, 2000-02.
National Endowment for the
Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 2000-01.
Arts and Humanities
Initiative Grant, University of Iowa, 1999.
New Technology in the
Learning Environment [nTITLE] Grant, University of Iowa, summer 1999.
Old Gold Fellowship,
University of Iowa, summer 1998.
Louis Dupree Prize for
Research on Central Asia, Social Science Research Council, 1997.
Dissertation Writing Grant,
Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on the Soviet Union and its
Successor States, 1996-97.
Advanced Dissertation
Research Fellowship, International Research and Exchanges Board [IREX],
1994-95.
Off-Campus Dissertation
Fellowship, Graduate School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Spring 1994.
Zyzniewski Graduate Student
Paper Prize, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, 1993.
On-Site Language Fellowship,
IREX, 1991-92.
University of North Carolina, Teaching Assistant,
1990, 1992-94, 1995-96.
Abai Prize, University of Washington,
Summer 1991.
Developmental Fellowship,
IREX, Summer 1991.
Mowry Award, History
Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 1991.
“Misery Loves Company: Soviet Film and Everyday Life in the Brezhnev Era,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies [AAASS] annual meeting, November 2002.
“Prisoners of the Caucasus,
Colonialism and Post-Coloniality,” Screening The Word: Literature and Film in
Russia and The USSR, University of Surrey, UK, May 2002.
“Russia’s Post-Colonial Crisis of Identity and
Cinema of the 1990s,” Midwest Russian History Workshop, DeKalb, IL, October
2001.
“Medicine and Empire in Soviet Central Asia,”
invited talk to the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, April 2001.
“Russian Orientalism and Soviet Film in the Brezhnev
Era,” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies annual meeting, Alexandria, VA,
March 2001.
“Lysenkoism, Medical Education, and Soviet Identity
in Kazakhstan,” AAASS annual meeting, Denver, CO, November 2000.
“Collectivization, Sedentarization, and Medical Care
among the Kazakh Nomads, 1928-53,” Central Asian Studies Workshop, Madison, WI,
September 2000.
"Soviet Central Asia as Modernizing
Nation-State or Empire? Historical
Issues and Contemporary Implications," Old Histories, New Interpretations:
Central Asian History and Society Reexamined, Charlotte, NC, March 2000.
“Medicine and Kazakh Women,” Central Asian Studies
Workshop, Madison, WI, October 1999.
“Medicine in Wartime Kazakhstan,” Provincial
Landscapes: The Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917-53, Chapel Hill, NC,
April 1999.
“Medical Professionals and Interethnic Relations in
Postwar Kazakhstan,” AAASS annual meeting, Boca Raton, FL, September 1998.
“Ethnicity, Patriotism, and Womanhood: The 1936 Ban
on Abortion in Kazakhstan,” American Historical Association annual meeting,
Seattle, WA, January 1998.
“Imagining the Other: Medical Propaganda in
Kazakhstan, 1928-41,” Inventing the Soviet Union: Language, Power, and
Representation, 1917-45, Bloomington, IN, November 1997.
“Medical Education and Cultural Revolution in
Kazakhstan,” State and Society in the Stalin Era through the Prism of Regional
Archives, Toronto, Canada, June 1997.
“Red Yurts: Educational and Medical Propaganda among
the Kazakh Nomads, 1928-41,” AAASS annual meeting, Boston, MA, November 1996.
“Gender, Ethnicity, and the
Soviet Doctor-Hero in Kazakhstan,” Association for the Study of Nationalities
annual meeting, New York City, NY, April 1996.
“Medical Politics, Gender, and Interethnic Relations
in Kazakhstan in the 1930s,” Middle East Studies Association [MESA] annual
meeting, Washington, DC, December 1995.
“Women in Contemporary Kazakhstan,” AAASS annual
meeting, Washington, DC, October 1995.
“Kazakh Women, Tradition, and Soviet Politics in the
1930s,” Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar, Boone, NC,
October 1995.
“Sedentarization, Kazakh Identity, and Stalinism,”
MESA annual meeting, Research Triangle Park, NC, November 1993.
“Soiuz Koshchi i kollektivizatsiia v Kazakhstane
[The Union of Tillers and Collectivization in Kazakhstan],” Politics and
Society in the West and Russia, Saratov, Russia, May 1992.
BOOK AND FILM
REVIEWS
Malik, Hafeez, ed. Russian-American Relations:
Islamic and Turkic Dimensions in the Volga-Ural Basin, 2000. Nationalities
Papers 29, no. 4 (2001):723-24.
Kotz, D. and F. Weir. Revolution from Above: The
Demise of the Soviet System, 1997. Nationalities Papers vol. 28, no.
2 (2000): 374-75.
Rees, E.A., ed. Decision-making in the Stalinist
Command Economy, 1932-37, 1997. Europe-Asia Studies vol. 50, no. 1
(1998): 178.
“Chastie” (1995). Middle East Studies Association
Bulletin 31 (no. 2, December 1997): 197-98.
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE
Selection
Committee, Regional Scholars Exchange Program, IREX, 2002.
Executive
Committee and Founding Member, Central
Eurasian Studies Society, 2000.
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Russian.
Good command of Kazakh. Reading
knowledge of Spanish and French.
REFERENCES
Available upon request.
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