My primary interests are in Russian and Soviet popular culture and cultural history; comparative studies in revolutions and commemoration; international law and legal frameworks; cultural studies. My most recent project is Seventeen Moments in Soviet History, a website featuring archival video, music and audio, and texts from Soviet history. I am also the author of Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920 and two anthologies, Mass Culture in Soviet Russia and Entertaining Tsarist Russia. My current interests lie in international law and human rights. In this capacity, I represent asylum petitioners on a pro bono basis in the federal immigration court in Bloomington, MN. EDUCATION: B.A., Tufts University, 1980; M.A., Brown University, 1981; Ph.D., Brown University, 1987; J.D., University of Minnesota, 2005
Articles
"The Three Gorges Project: Great Plans and their Unforeseen Consequences.", Macalester International (2007)
"An Online Sourcebook of Soviet History." (with L. Siegelbaum), AAASS Newsnet (online) (2005)
“Review of The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War.”, American Historical Review (2005)
"Review of Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents.", Slavic Review (2002)
Books
Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images From Russian Urban Life, 1779-1917 (with L. McReynolds) (1998)
Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953. (with R. Stites, ed.) (1995)
Contributions to Books
"Cultural Transformations, 1900-1945", Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (2006)
“Epic Revisionism and the Crafting of a Soviet Public”, Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda (2005)
"The Centre and the Periphery: Cultural and Social Geography in the Mass Culture of the 1930's", The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents (2002)