People > Center Associates

Expertise / Russian women's history; women's movements in Russia and the Soviet Union; Jewish women's history.

Current Project / "'A Patriot for Women': Anna Kal'manovich and the Issues of Gender and National Identity for Jewish Women in Pre-Revolutionary Russia; From West to East: International Women's Day, The First Decade "

Foreign Languages / Russian

Education / Ph.D., History, University of Rochester

Selected Publications

• Equality and Revolution: Women's Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010).
• "Women's Suffrage and Revolution in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917," in Karen Offen, ed., Globalizing Feminisms, 1789-1945. New York: Routledge, 2010, 257-274.
• "Reframing Public and Private Space in Mid-Nineteenth Century Russia: The Triumvirate of Anna Filosofova, Nadezhda Stasova, and Mariia Trubnikova" in Christine Worobec, ed., The Human Tradition in Imperial Russia. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009, 69-83.
• "The 1908 Women's Congress: Then and Now (S"ezd 1908 goda: ego znachenie togda i tseper'," in Natalia Pushkareva, Marianna Muravyeva, and Natalya Novikova, eds. Gendernoe ravnopravie v Rossii. Materialy mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii posviashchennoi 100-letiiu Pervogo Vserossiiskogo zhenskogo S"ezda 1908 goda. 21-23 marta 2008 goda. St. Petersburg: Aleteia, 2008, 230-35.
• "Feminist publications and publishers in St. Petersburg, 1899-1917," The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, vol. 33, no. 1 (2006): 27-48.

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