Selected Curriculum Vitae
Education
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (2010-2018) - Ph.D. in History
• Dissertation: “Russian Literary Marketplace: Periodicals, Social Identity, and Publishing for the Middle Stratum in Imperial Russia, 1825-1865” (full text here)
• Committee: Drs. Catherine Evtuhov (advisor), Michael David-Fox, David Goldfrank, Jeffrey Brooks
• Examination Fields: 1) Modern Russia, 2) Russian Intellectual & Cultural History, 3) Modern European Philosophy, 4) Central Eurasia. Passed with Distinction.
New York University, New York, NY (2005-2009) - B.A. in History (Hons), B.A. in Russian Studies, magna cum laude
• Minor: French
• Honors Thesis: “Government Policy and Public Attitudes toward Russian Émigrés in France, 1919-1939”; Committee: Drs. Edward Berenson & Anne Lounsbery
Teaching Experience
New York University – Liberal Studies
Adjunct Assistant Professor (Spring 2020 - Present)
Course: Global Works and Society in a Changing World (formerly Social Foundations II)
Georgetown University - Department of History
Davis Fellow & Instructor of Record
HIST 372 Nation and Society in Russian Culture, 1801-1917 (Spring 2016)
Georgetown University - Department of History
Teaching Assistant
HIST 226 Korea in Northeast Asia (Spring 2013)
HIST 007 World History I (Fall 2012)
HIST 008 World History II (Spring 2012)
HIST 128 South Asia I (Fall 2011)
Fellowships & Awards
2021 REEEC Virtual Summer Research Laboratory Associate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2018 Writer in Residence, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia (Spring)
2017 Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University (Spring & Fall)
2015-2016 Royden B. Davis Fellowship, Department of History, Georgetown University
2013-2014 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Predoctoral Fellow, Critical Silk Road Studies, Georgetown University
2012 Piepho Travel Grant, Department of History, Georgetown University
2012 Phi Alpha Theta, Best Graduate Paper in Mid-Atlantic Region
2010-2015 Graduate Fellowship for full-time study, Georgetown University
2009 Phi Beta Kappa, New York University
2009 University Honors Scholar / Founders’ Day Award, New York University
2008-2009 Steffi Berne Research Scholar, New York University
Conferences & Workshops
Presentations:
2022 “Newspapers Under the Tsars: New Directions in Imperial Russian Press History,” co-presented with Ala Graff, 19v: A Working Group on 19th-Century Russian Culture Seminar Series, September 21, 2022 (virtual; recording here)
2021 “From Paris to the Russian Provinces: Russian-language Fashion Magazines of the late 1830s and 1840s as Domains of Cultural Adaptation and Women’s Entrepreneurship,” European Society for Periodical Research, December 10, 2021 (virtual; recording here)
2021 “(Re-)reading the Nikolaevan Press: On Old Debates and New Research Agendas,” Roundtable “New Approaches in Imperial Russian and Soviet Press History: Questions, Methods, Sources,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, December 2 – 3, 2021 (virtual)
2021 “Networks of Russian Journalism in 1820s Petersburg,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans, December 2 – 3, 2021 (virtual)
2021 “Life and Death in Nikolaevan Russia: Obituaries and Social Narratives in the Newspaper Northern Bee (Severnaia pchela) in the 1830s” Northeastern Slavic, East European & Eurasian Conference, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, April 10, 2021 (virtual)
2020 “Entertainment and Caricature in Leaflet for Worldly People (Listok dlia svetskikh liudei): 1843-44” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Washington, DC, November 5 – 8, 2020 (virtual)
2020 “Commercial Periodicals and Their Readers under Nicholas I: Unsung Pioneers of an Expanding Cultural Space”, Roundtable “Terms of Inclusion and Exclusion in Russian Cultural History from Nicholas I to Putin” American Historical Association Annual Convention, New York City, January 5, 2020
2018 “Shifting Conceptions of the Provincial ‘Middle Stratum’: Categories and Collective Identity in the Northern Bee and the Library for Reading,” Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Boston, MA, December 6 – 9, 2018
2018 “Models of the Middle Stratum: Categories, Behavior, and Representation in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Russian Press,” European History & Politics Workshop, Columbia University, September 17, 2018
2018 “Representation of the ‘Middle Stratum’ in the Northern Bee and the Library for Reading in the Second Third of the Nineteenth Century,” Northeastern Slavic, East European & Eurasian Conference, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, April 7, 2018
2017 “The ‘Soul of the Empire’: Defining the Russian Reading Public in the Northern Bee and the Library for Reading, 1825-1847,” East Coast Kruzhok [Circle], University of Pennsylvania, March 25, 2017
2015 “The Expanded Readership of Two Early 19th Century Russian Periodicals,” Decoding the Periodical: A Workshop in Slavic, East European and Eurasian Periodical Studies, Princeton University, March 27, 2015
2012 “An Inquiry into the Zemskii Sobor: Questions on Sources, Historiography, and Interpretations of Muscovite National Assemblies between 1550 and 1613,” Phi Alpha Theta Conference, Towson University, Spring 2012
Research Languages
English, Russian, French, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Polish, German