TEACHING EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

Assistant Professor of Soviet history, 1997-present. Teach:

• The Soviet Union, 1917-45
• The Soviet Union, 1945-91
• Colloquium for History Majors: The Stalin Era
• History and Politics in Russian and Soviet Film
• Graduate Seminar: Soviet History
• Graduate Readings: Soviet History
• The World since 1945

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

Ph.D. in Russian and Soviet history received in May 1997. Specialization in twentieth century Russian/Soviet history. General emphasis on social history and historical anthropology. Dissertation: "Shamans and Surgeons: Folk Medicine and the Politics of Public Health in Kazakstan, 1928-41." Director: Donald J. Raleigh.

M.A. in Russian and Soviet history, 1991; Master's Thesis: "Red Sands: Collectivization in Kazakstan, 1928-32."

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

B.A. in History and Russian Studies, 1987. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with departmental honors in history.

Honor's Thesis: "Soviet Experimentation in Communal Childrearing: The 1920s and the 1950s."

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin's Central Asia (forthcoming Spring 2003)

Moving Images in Times of Stagnation: Soviet Film and National Identity, 1964-82 (estimated date of completion 2007)

 "Prisoners of the Caucasus: From Colonial to Post-Colonial Narrative," Russian Studies in Literature (under consideration).

PUBLICATIONS

"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 Kazakstan," Russian Review 59 (April 2000): 159-78..

"Medical Traditions, Kazak 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 (invited).

"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.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

"Misery Loves Company: Soviet Film and Everyday Life in the Brezhnev Era," 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," Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, April 2001 (invited).

"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.

"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 Kazakstan," Conference on Provincial Landscapes: The Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917-53, Chapel Hill, NC, April 1999.

"Medical Professionals and Interethnic Relations in Postwar Kazakstan," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies [AAASS] National Conference, Boca Raton, FL, September 1998.

"Ethnicity, Patriotism, and Womanhood: The 1936 Ban on Abortion in Kazakstan," American Historical Association National Conference, Seattle, WA, January 1998.

"Imagining the Other: Medical Propaganda in Kazakstan, 1928-41," Conference on Inventing the Soviet Union: Language, Power, and Representation, 1917-45, Bloomington, IN, November 1997.

"Medical Education and Cultural Revolution in Kazakstan," Conference on 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 Kazak Nomads, 1928-41," AAASS National Conference, Boston, MA, November 1996.

"Gender, Ethnicity, and the Soviet Doctor-Hero in Kazakstan," Association for the Study of Nationalities [ASN] National Conference, New York City, NY, April 1996.

"Medical Politics, Gender, and Interethnic Relations in Kazakstan in the 1930s," Middle East Studies Association [MESA] National Conference, Washington, DC, December 1995.

"Women in Contemporary Kazakstan," AAASS National Conference, Washington, DC, October 1995.

"Kazak Women, Tradition, and Soviet Politics in the 1930s," Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar [SERMEISS], Boone, NC, October 1995.

"Sedentarization, Kazak Identity, and Stalinism," MESA National Conference, Research Triangle Park, NC, November 1993.

"Soiuz Koshchi i kollektivizatsiia v Kazakhstane," presented in Russian, Politics and Society in the West and Russia Conference, Saratov, Russia, May 1992.

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

Social Science Research Council [SSRC] Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2000-02.

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Professors, 2000-01

nTITLE Grant, University of Iowa, summer 1999. Grant for equipment, software, and workshop on teaching and technology.

Old Gold Fellowship, University of Iowa, summer 1998. For research in Kazakstan.

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. For research in Almaty and Shymkent, Kazakstan and Moscow, Russia.

Off-Campus Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 1994. For research in Moscow, New York, and Washington, DC.

Zyzniewski Graduate Student Paper Prize, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, 1993. For best graduate seminar paper.

On-Site Language Fellowship, IREX, 1991-92. For Kazak language study in Almaty.

Abai Prize, University of Washington, Summer 1991. For best student in first-year Kazak language course.

Developmental Fellowship, IREX, Summer 1991. For Kazak language study at the University of Washington.

Mowry Award, History Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 1991. For M.A. research in Washington, DC.

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