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Academic Specialization

Russian and Soviet history, history of science.

Education

1. Ph.D. in History, University of California, Berkeley 2000
2. M.A. in History, University of California, Berkeley 1995
3. B.A. in History, Tufts University, Medford,  MA 1991
4. Language Certificate, Pushkin Russian Language Institute, Moscow, Russia 1990

Teaching, Administrative, and Professional Appointments

1. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Syracuse University, 2002
2. Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 2002-03
3. Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Center for History of Recent Science and The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, The George Washington University, 2000-02
4. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History, The George Washington University 2001
5. Lecturer, American History, International University, Moscow Aviation Institute, Mendeleev Institute, Moscow, Russia, 1991-92

Selected and Recent Publications

Dissertation:

1. The Politics of Knowledge: Party Ideology and Soviet Science, 1945-1953 (University of California, Berkeley, 2000).

Articles:

1. "Stalin as the Coryphaeus of Science: ideology and knowledge in the postwar years," forthcoming in Sarah Davies and James Harris, eds., STALIN: A NEW HISTORY (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
2. "Conversations with Stalin on Questions of Political Economy," Cold War International History Project Working Paper, Working Paper No. 33 (July 2001).
3. Co-author of editors' foreword and co-guest editor for a special volume on "Physicists in the Postwar Political Arena: Comparative Perspectives," in Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 30:1 (1999).

Long Book Reviews:

1. Review of The Cure: A Story of Cancer and Politics from the Annals of the Cold War by Nikolai Krementsov and Delo KR: Sudy chesti v ideologii i praktike poslevoennogo stalinizma by V. D. Esakov and E. S. Levina, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (Summer 2003), 768-775.

2. "Science under Socialism in the USSR and Beyond," Contemporary European History, 10, 3 (2001), 523-535.
3. Review of Akademiia nauk v resheniiakh politburo TsK RKP(b) - VKP (b) by V. D. Esakov, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History (Spring, 2001), 456-461.

Research Grants and Awards

1. Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Eurasia Program Dissertation Fellowship, 1999-00
2. Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1997-98
3. International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1997-98
4. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Summer Research Fellowship, 1995
5. University of California, Program in Soviet Studies Graduate Training Grants University of California, Slavic Center Travel Grants, 1993-95,1996, 1999
6. University of California, Berkeley Science Historians Travel Grants, 1996, 1999