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

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Is the Caspian Sea a sea; and why does it matter? (with Hanna Zimnitskaya), Journal of Eurasian Studies (2011)
 

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Soviet Cultural Practices and the West, Russian History (2011)
 

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International Criminal Justice: Growing Pains or Incurable Contradictions?, Macalester International (2010)
 

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"The Three Gorges Project: Great Plans and their Unforeseen Consequences.", Macalester International (2007)
 

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"An Online Sourcebook of Soviet History." (with L. Siegelbaum), AAASS Newsnet (online) (2005)
 

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Books

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Entertaining Tsarist Russia: Tales, Songs, Plays, Movies, Jokes, Ads, and Images From Russian Urban Life, 1779-1917 (with L. McReynolds) (1998)
 

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Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917-1953. (with R. Stites, ed.) (1995)
 

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Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920. (1993)
 

Contributions to Books

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"Cultural Transformations, 1900-1945", Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union (2006)
 

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“Epic Revisionism and the Crafting of a Soviet Public”, Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda (2005)
 

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"Communists", The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America (2004)
 

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"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)
 

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“Dateline Moscow: Radio and the Voice from the Center”, Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia (1994)
 

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Websites

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Seventeen Moments In Soviet History (with L. Siegelbaum) (2003)