Teaching Assistant and Instructor in History, Indiana University, 1980-83
Washington and Lee University, Assistant and Associate Professor of
History, 1987-present;
Co-founder of the Russian Area Studies Program
and program chair, 1994-2002
EDUCATION:
B.A. with Honors in History, Wake Forest University, 1977
M.A. in History, Indiana University, 1979
Russian and East European Institute Area Studies Certificate (18 graduate
credit hours in several departments in Russian and East European studies),
1982
Ph.D. in Russian History, Indiana University, 1987
TEACHING AREAS:
I teach a two-term survey of Modern Europe and several Russian history courses. The courses are listed below:
Short monograph, articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries:
"Workers at War: Factory Workers and Labor Policy in the Siege of Leningrad," The Carl Beck Papers, University of Pittsburgh Center for Russian and East European Studies, 1991, 57 pp.
Editor, "The Soviet Union and the Second World War," issue of journal Soviet Studies in History: A Journal of Translations (vol. 29, no. 3, winter 1991)
"Rabochie leningradskikh zavodov v pervyi god voiny" ["Leningrad's Factory Workers in the First Year of the War"] in Koval'chuk, V.M. et al., Lenigradskaia epopeia: organizatsiia oborony i naselenie goroda [The Leningrad Epic: Defense Organization and the City's Population] (St. Petersburg: Izdatel'stvo "KN," 1995), 167-199
"The Political Mood in Leningrad during the First Year of the Soviet-German War," The Russian Review 59 (January 2000): 96-113
"Survival Strategies in Leningrad during the First Year of the Soviet-German War" in Thurston, Robert W. and Bernd Bonwetsch, The People's War : Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union," (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000), 84-107
"Leningrad, Siege of" in The World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago: World Book Publishing, 2001), 195
"Foreword: Historical Background to the Siege of Leningrad" in Simmons, Cynthia and Nina Perlina, Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women's Diaries, Memoirs, and Documentary Prose (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002), ix-xxvi
"Leningrad, Siege of" in Millar, James, ed., Encyclopedia of Russian History, Vol. 2 (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004), 846-848
"Leningrad Affair" in Millar, James, ed., Encyclopedia of Russian History, Vol. 2 (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004), 845-846
"Soviet-Finnish War" in Millar, James, ed., Encyclopedia of Russian History, Vol. 4 (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004), 1433-1435
"Political Loyalties in Leningrad During the 'Great Patriotic War'" in Whisenhunt, Ben and Steven Usitalo, eds., New Directions in Russian and Soviet History (in press, University of Wisconsin Press)
"Ideological or Political Origins of the Leningrad Affair? A Response to David Brandenberger," forthcoming in The Russian Review, January 2005
Reviews:
Linz, Susan J., ed., The Impact of World War II on the Soviet Union (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985) in Armenian Review 39, no. 1 (1986)
Iroshnikov, M.P. ed., Leningradskii sovet v gody grazhdonskoi voiny i sotsialisticheskogo stroitel'stva, 1917-1937 gg. [The Leningrad Soviet in the Years of the Civil War and Socialist Construction, 1917-1937] (Leningrad: Academy of Sciences Press, 1986) in Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas 36, no. 4 (1988)
Rosenko, I.A. and G.L Sovolev, eds., Voprosy istorii i istoriografii Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny [Questions of History and Historiography of the Great Patriotic War] (Leningrad: Leningrad University Press, 1989) in Slavic Review 49, no. 4 (1990)
Moskoff, William, The Bread of Affliction: The Food Supply in the USSR During World War II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990) in The Russian Review, 51, no. 3 (1992)
Barber, John and Mark Harrison, The Soviet Home Front, 1941-1945: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II (London and New York: Longman, 1991) in Slavic Review, 51, no. 3 (fall 1992)
Garrard, John and Carol Garrard, eds., World War Two and the Soviet People: Selected Papers from the Fourth World Congress for Soviet and East European Studies (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993) in The International History Review, 16, no. 2 (May 1994)
Brody, Richard, "Ideology and Political Mobilization: The Soviet Home Front during World War II," The Carl Beck Papers, 1994 in Slavic Review 55, no. 4 (winter 1996)
Glantz, David M., The Battle for Leningrad, 1941-1944 (Lawrence: University of Kansas, 2002) in The Journal of Military History, vol. 67, no. 4 (October 2003)
Newspaper essays:
"Soviet Hard-liners Shouting a Last Hurrah?" Roanoke Times and World-News, July 8, 1990
"Sankt Peterburg?: Under Glasnost, Soviets Confront the Past,"
Roanoke Times and World-News, July 7, 1991
"1917 Parallel: History Has Lesson for Yanaev & Co.," Roanoke
Times and World-News, August 21, 1991
"Reversing the Tide of Centuries: In New USSR, More Than Communism Upended," Roanoke Times and World-News, October 13, 1991
"Russia's Decade of 'Democracy'", Roanoke Times and World News, August 19, 2001
(Co-author) "225 Years Ago... One Family's Saga in the Wyoming Massacre", The Citizens' Voice (Wilkes-Barre, PA), July 5, 2003
WORK IN PROGRESS:
Co-author with Russian colleague Nikita Lomagin of a book on the Leningrad
blockade to be published by Yale University Press as part of its Annals
of Communism series