Education
 
 

DISSERTATION

Title: "Taming the Green Serpent: Alcoholism, Autocracy, and Russian Society, 1881-1914"

Committee: Reginald Zelnik, Chair; Susanna Barrows, Eric Naiman, Yuri Slezkine

"Sobering Up the Soul of the People: The Politics of Popular Temperance in Late Imperial Russia," Russian Review, 58 (April 1999): 212-33

"Making Alcohol Poisonous: The Politics of Medical Orthodoxy in Late Imperial Russia" (forthcoming)
 
 

Reviews

Review of Stephen White, Russia Goes Dry (Cambridge, 1996) for Russian History/Histoire Russe (forthcoming)

"Peering into Russian Futures Past," H-Net Review of Faith Wizgell, Reading Russian Fortunes: Print Culture, Gender, and Divination in Russia from 1765 (Cambridge, 1998), (forthcoming)

"Beyond Shchi and Kasha: Russian Foodways and Their Significance," H-Net Review of Musya Glants and Joyce Toomre, eds. Food in Russian History and Culture (Bloomington, 1997), January 1999 (click here to read)

"The Causes, Concept, and Consequences of the Prohibition of Alcohol during the First World War," International Conference on Russia and the First World War, St. Petersburg, June 1998 (may be published)

The Bacchae of 1905: Attacks on Vodka Shops and Revolutionary 'Intoxication,'" American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Seattle, November 1997

"P'ianitsa von! Incarcerating the Problem Drinker in Fin-de-Siècle Russia," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, November 1996

"Affairs of the Spirit: Religious, Political, and Medical Conceptions of Alcoholism, 1890-1914," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., October 1995

"The Origin and Significance of the Vodka Monopoly," presentation in Russian to the St. Petersburg filial of the Institute of History, April 1994

Visiting Assistant Professor, American University Department of History, 1999 -- present
 

Courses Taught:	Twentieth-Century Russia (Lecture) -- Fall 1999
	Russia and the West, 1689 -- Present (Seminar) -- Fall 1999
	Russia, Past and Present  (Lecture) -- Spring 2000
	Bad Habits: Smoking, Drinking, and Drugs in Modern History (Lecture) -- Spring 2000
	Getting and Spending: Consumer Culture in Modern Europe and America (Seminar) -- Spring 2000

 

Instructor, Case Western Reserve University, Spring 1999
 

Courses Taught:	Russia Since the Revolution (Lecture)
	World History (Teaching Assistant)

Graduate Student Instructor and Reader, U. C. Berkeley, Fall 1990 -- Spring 1997
 

Courses Taught:	Bad Habits: The Friends and Foes of Drinking and Smoking (seminar) --  Spring  1997
	European Culture, 1914-1939 (undergraduate thesis seminar) -- Fall 1993
	European Survey from 1500 to Present (Teaching Assistant) -- Spring 1992
	European Culture from 1800 to present (Reader) -- Fall 1991
	Soviet History, 1917 to present (Reader) -- Spring 1991
	Russian History from Peter the Great to 1917 (Reader) -- Fall 1990

Alcohol Research Group Pre-Doctoral Training Fellowship, 1995-7

Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship for study in Russia, 1994-5

IREX Fellowship for study in Russia, 1994-5

Junior Scholar, Education Abroad-Faculty Exchange Program, University of St. Petersburg, Spring 1994

Mellon Grant for dissertation research from U.C. Berkeley Slavic Center, Summer 1993

Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) and Regents fellowships, 1992-3

Ludmilla & George Z. Patrick Scholarship for study in Russia Summer 1992

FLAS award for study in Russia, Summer 1992

Mellon Award for Russian language study at Indiana University, Summer 1991

Gurevich Prize (awarded to first-year graduate student in Russian History), co-winner, Spring 1991

World History Course Revision Committee, Case Western Reserve University, Spring 1999
Helped work out plan to include new primary sources and make them accessible on the web.

Coordinator, Russian History Working Group, U.C. Berkeley, 1995-6

American Historical Association

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies