OLGA V. VELIKANOVAAssociate ProfessorUniversity of North Texas, Department of History, since 20071155 Union Circle #310650, Denton, Texas 76203-5017 USATelephone (office): 940-369-8114Wooten Hall # 237E-mail: Velikanova@unt.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in History (Equivalent) 1993, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia M.A. in History (Equivalent) 1977, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, Department of Russian Studies, Department of History, Halifax, NS Canada, 2005 -2007.

Instructor, Mount Saint Vincent University, History Department, Halifax, NS Canada, 2006-2007. Instructor, Brock University, Department of History, St. Catherines, ON Canada, 2005Visiting Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University, Department of Russian Studies, Halifax, Canada,2004 Resident Fellow, University of Toronto, Centre for European, Russian, Eurasian Studies, Canada, 2000-5. Lecturer, European University in St. Petersburg, History Department, Russia, 1999Lecturer, St. Petersburg State University, Philology Department, Russia. 1998Researcher, Independent Academy of Humanities, St. Petersburg, 1995-1997Project Director, State Historical Museum Smolny, St. Petersburg, 1994Guide, Researcher, Museum of Political History of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1982 - 1989

PUBLICATIONS (ORIGINAL RESEARCH BASED on PRIMARY SOURCES):

Books, Peer-reviewed.

Mass Political Culture under Stalinism: Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936, accepted, under contract, Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming in 2018. Resulted from Development Leave, UNT Research grant and Scholar Fellowship at European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Disenchantment of the Dreamers. Soviet Society in the 1920s (in Russian) Разочарованные мечтатели: Советское общество в 1920-е годы. ROSSPEN, Moscow, 2017. 296 pp.

Popular Perception of Soviet Politics in the 1920s. Disenchantment of the Dreamers.*Palgrave Macmillan, January 2013, http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=595134 280 pp. resulted from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and University of North Texas Research Grants.

The Public Perception of the Cult of Lenin Based on the Archival Materials. The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001, 284 pp. (in Russian) resulted from Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State publication grant and Open Society Institute and George Soros Foundations research grants. http://www.amazon.com/Perception-Archival-Materials-Studies-Russian/dp/0773473718

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Making of an Idol: on Uses of Lenin. Muster-Schmidt-Verlag, Gottingen (Germany), 1996, 181 pp. (in English) resulted from the Central European University/Open Society Institute research grant N 583/91.

Other books:The Myth of the “Besieged Fortress”. Soviet Mass Perception in the 1920s-1930s. Toronto: Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Munk Centre for International Studies, 2002. 33 pp. (in English) resulted from Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, research grant http://www.worldcat.org/title/myth-of-the-besieged-fortress-soviet-mass-perception-in-the-1920s-1930s/oclc/054064792 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc174713/

Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters, Peer-reviewed Total 17

“Tighten Control and Strengthen Punishment!” Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936 and Mass Political Culture.” submitted to Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. Resulted from the Development Leave.

“The First Stalin Mass Operation in 1927,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 40.1 April 2013, pp. 64-89, resulted from the University of North Texas Research Grants

“The Peasant Union in the 1920s. The Formation of a Peasant Identity: Modernizing Discourse,” in: History and Subjectivity in Russia (late 19th -20th centuries), St. Petersburg, Nestor-Istoria, 2013, pp. 293-310. (in Russian) resulted from General Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. “Aftermath of the Famine: 1922-1923,” in: Hunger and Scarcity under State-Socialism, eds. Mathias Middell and Felix Wemheuer, Leipziger Universitatsverlag, Germany, 2012, pp. 83-114. (in English)

“Stalinism in micro history of de-construction of the Museum of Revolution in Leningrad. Case study of big politics. 1935-1956,” in: State Museum of Political History of Russia: 90 year in space of history and politics. 1919-2009. St. Petersburg, Norma, 2010, p. 95-100 (in Russian) (invited)

“Cult of Leader in the USSR: Spontaneous Popular Mythology vs. Official Myth,” in: Elites of Russia and Ukraine: Formation and Interaction, Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2009, pp. 15-46 (in Russian) (invited) “The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s,” in: Jahrbuch fur Historische Kommunismusforshung, (Yearbook for Historical Communist Studies), Berlin, Aufbau-Verlag, 2007 pp. 91-117. (in English) resulted from General Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc181691/m1/4/?q=velikanova

“Image of the Future in Russian Communism. Narratives of the Collective Representations in the 1920s in the USSR,” in: International Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 2, Number 3, 2006, pp. 2213-2221, published also at www.Humanities-Journal.com (in English) http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc174712/ resulted from General Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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“The Mythological Dimension in the Perception of Socialism in Soviet Russia. The 1920s and 1930s,” in: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (Ed.), European Culture in a Changing World. Between Nationalism and Globalism. Aberystwyth: University of Wales Aberystwyth, 2002, 8 pages, (in English) resulted from General Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

O.Welikanowa "Berichte zur Stimmungslage. Zur den Quellen politischer Beobachtung der Bevolkerung in der Sowjetunion" (Secret Police reports on Public Moods in the USSR as a Historical Source) in: Jahrbucher fur Geschichte Osteuropas (Yearbooks for the history of Eastern Europe, the leading German academic journal for the history of Eastern Europe) 47,1999, H 2, p.227-243. (in German) resulted from Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung grant (invited)

"Leader's Image in Mass Consciousness in Nazi Germany and in Soviet Russia" in: Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost' (Social Sciences and Modernity, the leading Russian journal for social sciences) 1997, N 6, p.162-173.(in Russian) resulted from Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung grant

"The Functions of Lenin's Image in Soviet Mass Consciousness" in: Soviet Civilization between Past and Present, Odense University Press, Denmark, 1998, p.13-38. (in English) (invited) resulted from Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung grant. Reviewed by S. Yekelchyk in Europe-Asia Studies, V.50, N.6, September 1998 who distinguished this article in the collection.

"Lenin's Image in the Soviet Mass Consciousness" in: Otechestvennaya Istoriya, (Russian History, The top national journal in Russian history) 1994, N 2, p.177-185. (in Russian) resulted from the Central European University/Open Society Institute research grant N 583/91. Article mentioned as an example of an innovative direction in post-Soviet historiography by Y. Afanasjev in Soviet Historiography, Moscow, 1996, pp. 478, 487.

O.Welikanowa "Der Lenin-Kult in sowjetischen Museen" (The Cult of Lenin in the Soviet Museums) in: Osteuropa, (Eastern Europe, The top German analytical monthly journal devoted to politics, history and culture in Eastern Europe) 1993, N 10, p.929-938. (in German) (Invited) resulted from Research fellowship, Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung, Germany

"Lenin's Death in Public Opinion" in: Eszmélet, (Consciousness, A quarterly Hungarian journal for social critique and culture) 1993 December, N 20, p.190-202. (in Hungarian) (invited)

"The Central Bureau of Trade-Unions in Petrograd in 1917" in: The First Historical-Revolutionary Museum, Leningrad, 1989, p.167-183. (in Russian)

"The Participation of Lenin's Relatives in Organization of Lenin's Museums" in: Leniniana. Research Continues, Leningrad, 1987, p. 253-261. (in Russian)

Other Scholarly Articles, invited"The Significance of Lenin's Cult in USSR" in: L’Avenç. Revista d'Historia, Barcelona (Spanish academic journal that covers topics on history and literature), 1992, May, N 159, p. 9-11 (in Spanish)

"Was the First Government Really Soviet?" in: St-Petersburg Panorama, 1991, N 11, p.5-12.(in Russian)

"According to the People's Demand..."(On Lenin’s Burial and Mummification) in: Neva, Leningrad, 1991, N 7, p.179-184. (in Russian) was selected for re-publication in popular digest “24 hours”

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"Mechanism of Falsification. To the History of the State Museum of the October Revolution" in: Dialogue, Leningrad, 1990, N 9, p.23-28. (in Russian)

O.V.Velikanova , N.Y.Olesich "The History of the Mausoleum-ization" in: Etelo-Suomen Sanomat, (Central Finnish newspaper) 1991, N 142, p.4 (in Finnish)

O.V.Velikanova, N.Y.Olesich "Cult of Leader in the Soviet Museums" in: Etelo-Suomen Sanomat, 1990, N 112, p.4 (in Finnish) "Lenin's Memorial Hall in the Hermitage in 1924" in: Dialogue, Leningrad, 1989, N 11, p.17-22. (in Russian)

Other Publications, invitedO.Welikanowa "Die Arbeit des Sowjetischen Historikers - von innen Gesehen (How the Soviet Historian Works. A Personal Experience) in: Die Sowjetunion im Umbruch. Eine Zwischenbilanz 1991. Bonn, Bundeszentrale fur politische Bildung, 1991, p. 155-158. (in German)

O.V.Velikanova under the pen-name G.Grossmann "Sowjetische Historiker bei der Arbeit. Ein personlicher Erfahrungsbericht" (Working as a Historian within the Soviet Framework: Access toInformation. A Personal Perspective.) in: Osteuropa (Eastern Europe, The top German analytical monthly journal devoted to politics, history and culture in Eastern Europe), 1991, N 6, p.580-592. (in German)

Book Reviews, invited:

Chris Miller, The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy. Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR, The University of North Carolina Press, 2016. The Economic History Review. Volume 70, Issue 3August 2017, Pages 1032–1033 Eda Kalmre, “The Human Sausage Factory. A Study of Post-War Rumor in Tartu” Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2013 in Folklorica, Journal of the Slavic, East European and Eurasian Folklore Association. 2017, Volume XX.

Katerina Clark "Moscow. The Fourth Rome. Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941." in Nexus Institute Review (Netherlands) January 2013 https://nexus-instituut.nl/en/reviews/197-moscow-the-fourth-rome

Karen Ryan Stalin in Satire. 1917-1991, in Canadian Slavonic Papers (leading Canadian journal in the field) vol.53.1-2 (Mar-June 2011), 119-20.

Helen Rappaport Conspirator: Lenin in Exile, in History: Reviews of New Books, 39:4, August 2011, 126-127

J. Brooks, Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War, Princeton University Press, 2000 in:

Research and Analytical Supplement to Johnson’s Russian List (On-line Digest), N 4, January 2002 http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/6022.txt (in English)

Otechestvennaya Istoriya (Russian History, the top national journal in Russian history), 2004, N 4,

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178-180 (in Russian)

WORK IN PROGRESS:

A book-length project entitled Mass Political Culture under Stalinism: Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936. Another project initiated Memory of Stalinism in Modern Russian Society

SCHOLARLY AND RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS (Peer-reviewed) “Anti-clerical and Anti-enfranchisement Voices in the Mass Discussion of the Constitution of 1936” The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2017 convention, Chicago November 2017. UNT grant

"Sham Democracy in Authoritarian Regime. Popular Discussion of the Soviet 1936 Constitution," the 24th International Conference of Europeanists, Glasgow, UK, July 2017. UNT travel grant

“Soviet society and its evaluation of the socialist experiment” A Centennial of the Russian Revolution Symposium at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, February 2017.

“Tighten Control and Strengthen Punishment”: Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936” The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2016 convention, Washington, UNT travel grant.

“Mass Political Culture under Stalinism. Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936,” British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Cambridge University, UK, April 2016.UNT tr.grant

“Mass Political Culture under Stalinism. Popular Discussion of the Soviet Constitution of 1936” 14th Annual International Aleksanteri Conference, Helsinki University, Finland, October 2014, UNT travel grant

“Leader Cult in the USSR: Popular Perceptions” La Sapienza University (Rome, Italy), Department of Philosophy and Foreign Languages, November 10, 2014. La Sapienza travel grant

“Stalinism: Studies of Popular Opinion and Imagination” European University Institute, Florence, Italy, Research seminar, November 26, 2014.

"Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and it's implications for the world" UNT Discussion Panel on Russian invasion to Ukraine March 6, 2014

“Transformations of Peasant Identity in Russia: Modernity Discourse.” The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2013 convention, Boston, UNT travel grant

“Transformations of Peasant Identity in Russia: Modernity Discourse. Peasant Union Movement in the 1920s,” European Congress 'Europe: Crisis and Renewal'. British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Cambridge University, UK, April 2013. UNT Dean’s Supplementary grant

“Russian Peasantry and Modernity: New Elements of Political Behavior and Identity at the Beginning of the XX century,” Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, International conference “Russian Statecraft in 1150-years history”, Russia, December 2012.UNT travel grant

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"Stalin’s Mass Repressions in 1927: a New Episode in a Wider Context." Hawaii Arts and Humanities International Conference January 2012. UNT Travel grant

“The First Stalin’s Mass Arrests Operation in 1927” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Alexandria, VA, March 2011. UNT Travel grant

“Popular Defeatism and the First Stalin’s Mass Arrests Operation in 1927,” The VIII World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, Stockholm, Sweden, July 2010. UNT Travel grant

“Modernity Discourse in Peasant Identity. Peasant Union Movement in the 1920s,” International colloquium History and Subjectivity in Russia (late 19th- 20th centuries), St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2010. UNT Research grant

“Apocalyptic Moods in Soviet Village in the 1920s and 1930s,” 41st Convention of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, USA, UNT Travel grant, November 15, 2009.

“Stalinism in micro history of de-construction of the Museum of Revolution in Leningrad. Case study of big politics. 1935-1956,” Historical Colloquium “State Museum of Political History of Russia: 90 year in space of history and politics. 1919-2009.” St. Petersburg, Russia. October 6, 2009 (invited)

“Cult of Leader in the USSR: Spontaneous Popular Mythology vs. Official Myth”, Russian Academy of Science, Fifth International Conference: Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations, Moscow, Russia, UNT Travel grant, June 23, 2009

“The Politics in the War Scare of 1927 in the USSR”, 40th Convention of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Philadelphia, USA, UNT Travel grant, 2008

“Famine in Russia in 1923: Revelations from the Archives,” International workshop: Hunger, Nutrition and Systems of Rationing under State Socialism, University of Vienna, Austria, UNT Travel grant, 2008

“Foreign Threat: Perceptions at the Top and at the Bottom of Soviet Society in the 1920s” 39th Convention of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, USA, UNT Travel grant, 2007

“Stalinism: The Study of Popular Imagination” Dalhousie University, Canada, History Colloquium 2007

“War Scare of 1927 in the USSR. Popular Reactions in Historical Perspective” 38 th Convention of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, USA, conference travel grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2006

“Soviet Patriotism in the Mirror of the War Scare (1927)” Canadian Association of Slavists convention, Toronto, Canada, Travel grant from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 2006

“Social Fears in the Structure of the Soviet World View”, VII World Congress of the International Council Central and East European Studies in Berlin, Germany, Conference travel Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005

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“Popular Perception of Socialism in Soviet Russia” Harvard University, Davis Centre for Russian Studies, USA, General Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2005

“The Peasant Union Movement in 1920s Russia as a Practice of Peasants’ Self identification” 36th Convention of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, USA, General Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2004

“Social Fears in Soviet Russia”, York University, Toronto, Canada. Historical Seminar, 2004

“Representations of the Future in Stalin’s Russia. Narratives of collective representations in the 1920s and 1930s”. International conference New Directions in the Humanities, University of Prato, Italy, Conference Travel Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2004

“The Functions of Secrecy in the Construction of Soviet Social Reality” 35th Convention ofAmerican Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, Canada, Conference Travel Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003

“Application of the Theory of Myth to the History of Soviet Russia”, International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of the Aegean, Greece, General Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003

“The Demand for a Peasant Union in 1920s Russia”, Annual Meeting of Canadian Association ofSlavists, Halifax, Canada, Conference Travel grant from the University of Toronto, 2003

“Crisis of Faith. Popular Reactions to the 10th Anniversary of the October Revolution”, International Workshop “What Was Soviet Real Socialism?” University of Toronto, Canada, 2003

“The Narrative of Conspiracy in the Soviet Public Mind. The 1920s and 1930s”; 34th Convention of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Pittsburgh, USA; General Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2002

“Mythological Dimension in the Perception of Socialism in Soviet Russia”; 8th International Conference of International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Aberystwyth, UK, General Research Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2002

"The Myth of a Besieged Fortress in Soviet Mind. 1920-1930s." University of Toronto, Center of Russianand East European Studies, 2001

“The Expectations of War and Apocalypse in Collective Representations. Catastrophic Consciousness inSoviet Russia in the 1920-1930s”, Historical Seminar Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, 2000

“Image of Lenin in Soviet public mind” International Conference “History and Personality”, EuropeanUniversity, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1998

”Images of Power. Mass Perceptions in Stalinist Russia”, October 13, 1998 Brown University, Institute of International Relations, USA

“Formation of the Myth of the State: Stalin’s Russia, the Perspective from Below”, Stanford University,

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CREES, USA, 1998

“The Image of Leader. Lenin and Stalin in Mass Perceptions.” Columbia University, USA, 1998

“The Image of Leader. Popular Perceptions in Soviet Russia”, Harvard University, Davis Centre, 1998

All US 1998 presentations were supported by The International Research & Exchanges Board, USA

“Functions of the Leader’s Image in Mass Perceptions. Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia”, Theoretical Seminar in Institut Osteuropa Geschichte, Tuebingen University, Germany May 1996, resulted from Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung grant.

“Cult of the Leader. Nazi Germany and the USSR”, Historical Seminar Hannover University, Germany,May 1996, resulted from Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung grant. “The Function of Lenin’s Image in Soviet Mass Consciousness” International Conference “Soviet Civilization: New Interpretations”, Odense University, Denmark, with support of Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 1995 “Functions of the Leader’s Image in the Russian Public Mind”; Anthropological Seminar Maison desSciences de l’Homme, Paris supported by Foundation Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, 1994

“De-Leninization” in Russia”, Historical Seminar Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France,supported by Foundation Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, 1994

“Role of N. Krupskaia (Lenin’s widow) in the Formation of Lenin Cult” All-Russian nationalconference, the State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia, 1994

“Summaries of the Soviet Political Police as a Source for Social History”, Historical Seminar in Hannover University, Germany, 1993, resulted from Volkswagen-Stiftung research fellowship

EDUCATION OUTREACH and PEDAGOGY PRESENTATIONS

"Innovative Instructional Design: American students interviewing Russian peers on Legacy of Stalinism in Modern Russia: Historical Trauma, Memory/Forgetting and Awareness " presented at

University Forum on Teaching & Learning, University of North Texas, April 12, 2013

http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc174715/m1/1/“Enhancing the Student Learning Experience: Mock Trial on Stalin and Stalinism” presented at:

Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Savannah, GA, March 2012, UNT CLEAR grant

University Forum on Teaching and Learning, University of North Texas, March 2012

The Transformative Instruction Initiative Retreat, Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment,

and Redesign (CLEAR), University of North Texas, August 2011

http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84143/?q=velikanova

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GUEST AND PUBLIC LECTURES

UNT Russian Club “Centennial of the Russian Revolution and Socialism” November 14, 2017Dallas Association of Social History, “Stalinism: a Study in popular opinion and imagination” Dec, 2015 UNT Emeritus College, “Putin’s Russia (2000-2015). Economy, Politics, Society.” September 14, 2015

“Soviet Socialism through the Eyes of the Witness and the Scholar”, April 2014UNT Russian Club, “Putin’s Russia.” October 2015TCON “Russia and Ukraine Conflict, Encounters and Exchange,” September 2015Chief Executive Round table, Dallas Business Park Lane Club, “Ukrainian-Russian Crisis and its Implications for the World”, March 15, 2014Harvard University Summer School, “Leningrad during Stalinism,” June 2010 (invited) Emory University Summer School, “Everyday Life in Leningrad in the 1920-1930s,” June 2010 (invited)Museum of Political History in Saint Petersburg, Russia, “Stalinism in Public Debates” June 2009Brown University, Institute of International Relations, USA

“Strategies of Everyday Survival in Russian Crisis”, September 24, 1998“Social and Economic Transformation in Russia”, Alumni Seminar, October 14, 1998

Museum of Lenin, Tampere, Finland, “Erosion of Lenin’s Cult in Contemporary Russia” 1992 (invited)Academy of War and Peace, Hamburg, Germany, “Perestroika (Transformation) in Russia and its

Historical science”, 1992 (invited)

MEDIA PRODUCTIONS, dissemination of research results

Russia after Elena Bonner. Online Symposium, FrontPage Magazine.com: August 26, 2011 (invited)http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/26/symposium-russia-after-elena-bonner/

The Shadow of the KGB. Online Symposium, FrontPage Magazine, February 2011(invited). http://frontpagemag.com/2011/02/11/symposium-the-shadow-of-the-kgb/

“Estaline” (Controversy around Stalin), interview to Publico (major newspaper in Lisbon, Portugal) (invited) May 19, 2010, pp. 4-5.

Closing the Curtains on the Soviet Past, interview, FrontPage Magazine.com May 24, 2010 (invited)Soviet Archives and Dark Truths, interview with FrontPage Magazine.com, February 06, 2009 (invited)http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=113AF1DF-2AD2-4389-A235DC8575286F99

Participant and Consultant for a History Channel Canada documentary titled “Gorbachev’sRevolution”- a winner of the top prize "One World Award" at the US International Film and VideoFestival with over four hundred films presented, 2004 Invited featured speaker for three programs at BBC Russian Service “The openness of the Sovietarchives and the field of Soviet studies”, 1994

Museum historical exhibition “Cult of Lenin in the USSR” in the State Historical Museum Smolny, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1994

Guest Correspondent; reported on historical and cultural problems, Russian and Finnish radio, 1993-94

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O. Welikanowa "Noch sind die Archive verschlossen" (The Archives are Still Closed) in: Das Parlament,(the German newspaper) 1991, 19/26 July, p.21. (in German) (invited)

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

International Grants and Fellowships**2014 Visiting Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence, Italy 2000 Visiting scholar grant, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto,

Awarded and declined2000 Publication grant, Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the US Department of State1998 – 2000 Research Grant, Open Society Institute of George Soros Foundations1998 Research fellowship, International Research and Exchanges Board USA at Brown University, USA 1995 – 1996 Research fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, at Tübingen University, Germany1994 – 1995 Research fellowship, Foundation Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris, France1993 Research grant, Maison des Sciences de l´Homme, Paris, France1993 Research fellowship, Volkswagen-Stiftung, at Hannover University, Germany1992 – 1993 Research fellowship, Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung, at Tübingen University, Germany1992 – 1994 Research grant, Open Society Institute of Soros Foundations /Central European University

Foundation [Project result was evaluated as „outstanding”]

National grant2002 – 2006 General Research grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Institutional grants at the University of North Texas: 2017 Faculty success grant2017 History Department grant2017 Two travel grants2016 Two Travel grants 2013/14 Faculty Research Grant2013, 2012 Travel Grants2013 Supplementary Travel Grant2012 Integrating Global Perspectives into Class Fellowship from CLEAR2011 Transformative Instruction Initiative Fellowship and Travel Grant from CLEAR2010 Junior Research Summer Grant, Small Grant, Faculty Research Grant, Travel Grant,2009 Faculty Research Grant, Junior Research Summer Grant, Travel grant2008 Faculty Research Grant, Junior Research Summer Grant, Travel grant2007 Travel grant

Five Institutional research grants at the University of Toronto (2001-2005) and two travel grants at Dalhousie University (2006) International grants applied, but not awarded: Total 162014 Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki University, Finland, visiting fellowship.2013 American Council of Learned Societies, research grant2013 Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki University, Finland2013 Gerda Henkel Foundation, Germany, Research Grant 2013 Central European University, Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary, Senior Research Grant2013 Braudel Fellowship, European Council2005 The Wenner-Gren Foundation, USA, Research grant

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2005 Center of Agrarian Studies, Yale University, USA, Research grant2005 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA, Research grant2002 Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, USA, Research grantNational grants applied, but not awarded: 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, research grant.2012, 2013 National Endowment for Humanities, USA summer stipend, eight percent of the received proposals is funded2013 National Endowment for Humanities, USA, Research grantInstitutional grants applied, but not awarded:2009, 2008 Wells Fargo Award, USA

TEACHING

Undergraduate HIST 4262 History of Russian Culture in Context: Between East and West, the 19th and 20th centuries, UNTHIST 4262 Soviet History 1917-1991, UNTHIST 4262 An Age of Revolutions. Europe in the 18 and 19 centuries, UNTHIST 4050 History of Russia to 1850, UNTHIST 4262.005 Russian Empire (1700-1917), UNTHIST 4060.001 Russian History since 1850 to Present, UNTHIST 1020 Russian Culture and Civilization (the IX-XIX century) Dalhousie University HIST 1070 Modern Russian Culture and Civilization (the XX –XXI century), Dalhousie UniversityRUSN 2051 Russian Literature survey (the X – XIX centuries), Dalhousie UniversityRUSN 2061 Russian Literature survey (the XX-XXI centuries), Dalhousie UniversityRUSN 2052 Modern Russian Culture and Civilization after Stalin, Dalhousie UniversityHIST 2022 Imperial Russia, Dalhousie University, Brock University HIST 3092 Everyday Stalinism, Dalhousie UniversityHIST 2204 History of Europe in the 18th century, Mount Saint Vincent UniversityHIST 2204 History of Europe in the 19th century, Mount Saint Vincent University

Graduate HIST 5080 Everyday Stalinism, Research Seminar HIST 5040 Historiography of Stalinism, Reading seminar

HIST 5040 Everyday Stalinism, Reading seminar HIST 5040 History of Stalinism, Reading Seminar Historiography of Stalinism, European University in St. Petersburg, Russia

Graduate Student Mentoring and Advising (19 students)

Member of Thesis Committee at RTVF Department, Megan McCullough, PhD degree (2008-12) Member of Thesis Committee at History Department, Charlotte Decoster, PhD degree (2009-10) Ali Ghafoori, MA degree (2009)

Derek Boetcher, MA degree (2011)Cassandra Brooks, MA degree (2011-14) Major ProfLaura Zelman, MA degree (2011-12) Major profSteven Miles, MA degree (2011-12) Major profSteven Collins, MA (2014-2017)Akins, Kelly Lane, Master's Thesis 2013-14

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Simone Ramos, PhD dissertation, 2009-2012 James Blackshear, PhD dissertation, 2009-2012Angela Willis MA (non-thesis), 2012-13Kirchenbauer Amy, PhD, 2013Wenrui Zhong, MA thesis 2012-2013Smith Tiffany, PhD, 2013-17Blythe, Jr. Wilson, PhD, 2012, 2015-17Ronald Abigail, MA, 2013-14

MA thesis supervisor/major professor: Callie Miller, “Religious Battleground: Peasant Women’s Opposition to the Soviet Anti

Religious Campaigns during Collectivization, 1928-1933,” completed 2016 Cassandra Brooks, “Cultural Exchange: American Tour of Stanislavsky Theater in 19231924” (2012-14) Completed 2014Laura Zelman, Art Theft and Restitution during WWII. A Comparison of the Soviet Trophy

Commission and the Allies Monuments, Fin Arts and Archives Commission. Completed 2012

PhD dissertation supervisor: Kathryn Fisher 2012-2014, discontinued

Independent Research Project for credit: Michael Stuart, PhD student, Japan- Russia War 1904-1905. 2008 Heather Harrison, MA student, Historiography of the Ukrainian Famine 1932-1933; 2008 Heather Harrison, MA student, The Military Reforms of Peter the Great. 2008 Laura Zelman, MA student, The Soviet Union's Argument - Cultural Reparations versus Restitution after the WWII. 2010 James Blackshear, PhD student, Historiography of Soviet Constitution of 1936, 2010 John Moor, Atomic Project in the USSR, 2010 Jonathan Smith, Russian Anarchism, 2008

Undergraduate Student Advising, Honors Thesis: Levi Grand, “Search for national identity in Ukraine, 19-20th century, Honor’s contract 2015 Vivian Lee, Historiography of Russian Terrorism in the 1870s. 2009-10 Jonathon Savage, Re-creating Mankind: The Philosophy and Actualization of the 'New Soviet Man'

won 2nd place in the Social Sciences category at the 2011 Scholars Day, the prize $400 plus $500 travel grant. Published in The Eagle Feather, UNT’s undergraduate research journal

Colin Bent, A Democracy in Decline: An Analysis of Russian Party System Development 1989-2006, Dalhousie University, Canada. 2006, B.A. Honours Thesis, (Second reader)

RECOGNITIONS and AWARDS Total 4

Faculty Development Leave, UNT, 2014

Award of Excellence for Teaching, Dalhousie University, 2006-2007. This is a highly-competitive, university-wide, peer-students-reviewed award that recognizes outstanding teaching over a consecutive three-year period at Dalhousie University.

Transformative Instruction Initiative Fellowship, Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment and Redesign (CLEAR) UNT 2011

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Integrating Global Perspectives into Class Fellowship, Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment and Redesign (CLEAR) UNT 2012

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSION History Department, UNT: Award Committee 2017- now

Graduate Committee 2015-nowDepartment Affairs’ Committee, 2013-2014Library Committee, 2010-2013Search Committee US Military History position, 2008-09Search Committee US Military History position, 2016-2017 Search Committee British History position, 2016

Department of Foreign Languages, UNT: Search Committee, Lecturer in Russian, 2013-14

Manuscript referee, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, (four) 2014, 2015, 2016Folklorica, 2016 Hodder Education, UK, Gorbachev, 2015Edwin Mellen Press, Soviet Politics in Music 2009

Textbook referee, Cengage Learning, Sources of Western civilization, 2015 Oxford University Press, 2007, 2016

Participant and back-up translator, International Indigenous Youth Video Conference, UNT, March 2008Chair of the panel: The Webb Memorial Lectures, University of Texas Arlington, 2012

Scholar Day, UNT, April 17, 2015.Northeast Texas Regional Phi Alpha Theta History Conference, “Reinterpreting theSoviet Union during the Second World War,” April 5, 2014, TWU.The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2016 convention“Leningrad in the 1920s”

UNT designated expert to provide commentary and analysis on the Ukraine-Russia conflict,March 2014, http://news.unt.edu/news-releases/unt-political-scientist-available-speak-anti-government-protests-ukraine

Project reviewer, UNT Research grant, 2009Organizer of the conference panels at:

UNT, Ukrainian-Russian crisis, March 6, 2014VIII World Congress of the International Council Central and East European Studies in Stockholm in July 2010 “Soviet Everyday: Space, Routine and Extremes”. 2009Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES):

“A Path to and from Soviet Identity: Perceptions and Encounters” 2017 “Transformations of Identity in XX century Russia” 2012 -13

“Making Sense of Soviet Politics. Interpretations from Below”, 2003-2004 “The Political Theatre of Stalinism and Its Audience. Self-Representation of Power and Popular Reactions”, 2002-2003 “Imagining the Enemy: Siege Mentalities.” 2001-2002

Member of Academic Council, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia. In this capacity I developed the concept for the new university and planned the curriculum. 1994-95

Review of TF Jessica Wranovsky 2008, Charlotte Decoster 2008, Josh Montandon 2009

VOLUNTEER/COMMUNITY SERVICES

Organized a movie show at UNT, by Roman Sivozhelezov (Moscow) “Save my word forever” Oct 2016

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a guest lectures at UNT: Speaker Julian Better (Sweden) “I was born in GULAG” April 2017Speaker: Ted Larson, Former CIA agent in Moscow(1980s) and Kiev(2000s) ”US –Russia and US-Ukraine relations” December 2015Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Brunstedt, "Public Memory of WWII in the Soviet Union. Forging a Common Glory" October 2013.

Evening of Russian Modern Poetry at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. 2007 Day of Commemoration for the victims of Stalin’s repressions in the USSR in the 1930s at Dalhousie University, 2006 and within Toronto Russian community, 2004

Plano East Senior High school, Academic Decathlon - a high school competition in History, Crash one day course on Russian History, September 26, 2012.

MEMBERSHIP in PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

- The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)- Southern Conference on Slavic Studies- British Association of Slavic studies

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

- Languages: Fully bilingual in English and Russian; reading in German- Fields of specialization and interest: Russian History, Cultural History

* Positively Reviewed in Slavic Review, Vol. 74, No. 4 (WINTER 2015), pp. 941-942 by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Plural, Vol. 1, 2013, pp. 237-240.

Reviews in History http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1468

The NEP Era: Soviet Russia 1921-1928, 7 (2013), 23-32;

Social History, 38:4(2013), 528-530, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2013.842777

Revolutionary Russia, Volume 27, Issue 1, 2014, by Christopher Monty, pages 81-83 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09546545.2014.912740#preview

Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity Volume 43, Issue 3, 2015 by Stephen White, pages 530-531 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00905992.2015.1010700

**See note on International Granting Institutions

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