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Modern European History


Ph.D. 2012
B.A., University of New Mexico; M.A., University of Washington

Office: HSSB 3223
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I study social movements in the Soviet Union during late perestroika. My dissertation looks at the interaction between social movements and party and state organs during the Soviet collapse as well as the framing done by movements of their goals.

Dissertation Title

  • Work Collective "Internationalism":
    The Mobilization of Moldovan Conservatives during the Collapse of the Soviet Union

Teaching Fields

  • Soviet History
  • Imperial Russia
  • Modern Europe
  • Modern World History

Courses Taught

  • Western Civilization I: Prehistory to 1648
    Northern New Mexico College
  • Western Civilization I: Prehistory to 1648
    Central New Mexico Community College
  • Western Civilization II: 1648 to Present
    Central New Mexico Community College
  • Twentieth-Century Russia
    Central New Mexico Community College

Teaching Assistantships

  • HIST 2B: World History, 1000 CE - 1715 CE
    Winter 2008
  • HIST 4A: Western Civilization, Prehistory to 1050 CE
    Winter 2007
  • HIST 4B: Western Civilization, 1050 CE to 1715 CE
    Winter 2009
  • HIST 4C: Western Civilization, 1715-Present
    Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Spring 2008
  • HIST 4C: Western Civilization, 1715-Present, Honors
    Spring 2007, Fall 2008

Publications

  • History
    "Internationalist mobilization during the collapse of the Soviet Union: the Moldovan elections of 1990" Nationalities Papers, 37, no. 2 (March 2009): 159-176.
  • Translation:
    Yevgeny Shklovsky. (Russian) “A Cup of Coffee in the Cafe on Ostozhenka.” AGNI, 58 (2003): 105-111. Co-translated with Byron Lindsey.
  • Fiction:
    “1948.” Conceptions Southwest, 25 (2002): 35-43.

Awards

  • International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) Advanced Individual Research Opportunity Fellowship
    University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009-2010
  • Labor and Employment Research Fund (LERF) Minigrant
    University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008
  • European Union Center of Excellence summer language study fellowship
    Indiana University, 2007
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship
    Indiana University, 2007
  • Presidential Fellowship (declined)
    University of Iowa, 2006

Prizes

  • Daniel C. Waugh Thesis Prize for Best Thesis in the REECAS Program
    University of Washington, 2006
  • Henry M. Jackson School Graduate Book Prize for High Scholarship
    University of Washington, 2006
  • Western Alliance of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award (Nominee)
    Nominee of the University of Washington, 2006
  • Conceptions Southwest Fiction Prize
    University of New Mexico, 2001

Presentations and Guest Lectures

  • Conservative Internationalism during the Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Moldovan Elections of 1990
    The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Convention, 8-11 November 2008
  • The "Soviet Narod" and the Moldovan Elections of 1990: Conservative Internationalism during the Collapse of the Soviet Union
    The Association for the Study of Nationalities World Conference, 10-12 April 2008
  • The Russian Revolution Part Two: Stalinism and the Revolution from Above
    University of California, Santa Barbara, 6 November 2007
  • Work Collective Internationalism: Opposition to Moldovan Independence, 1989-1991.
    UCSB-LSE Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War, 19-21 April 2007
  • An Internationalist Opposition: The United Council of Work Collectives and Moldova's Civil War
    Annual Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asia Studies, 29 April 2006