EDUCATION
1999  Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Field of Specialization: Modern Russian, Soviet, and East European history.
Dissertation: Uzbek Women and the Veil: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia.

1995  M.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, modern European history.

1993  M.A., Stanford University, Stanford, California, modern Russian, Soviet, and East European history.

1991  B.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, Modern European history.

1989  B.A., Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Triple major: Russian, political science, mathematics.
Highest Honors in Russian, Soviet, and East European Studies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004-present  Associate professor of modern Central Asian studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

2004-present  Senior research fellow, Center for International Trade and Security, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

1999-2004  Assistant professor of modern Russian and Soviet history, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.

1998-1999  Assistant professor of modern European history, Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California.

1997-1998  Visiting instructor, Pitzer College, The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California.

MAJOR HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2003-2006.
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2003-2004.
U.S. State Department Freedom Partnership Grant, co-main author, 2003-2006.
European Union Center of California Faculty Research Award, 1999-2000.

Predoctoral:
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1991-1993.
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1997.
National Security Education Program Graduate International Fellowship, 1994-1997.
Institute for the Study of World Politics Dissertation Fellowship, 1994-1995.
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, 1991, honorary.

PUBLICATIONS
Books
Five Days that Shook the World: Earthquakes and Empire on the Eurasian Frontier, (in progress).

An Imperial World: Empires and Colonies Since 1750, (under contract: Prentice-Hall, “Connections” Series in World History, 2006).

Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia (Cornell University Press, 2004). Winner of 2004 Heldt Prize for best book published in Slavic/Eurasian/East European women’s studies.

(Co-authored with Giulietto Chiesa.) Transition to Democracy: Political Change in the Soviet Union, 1987-1991 (University Press of New England, expanded edition 1993). (Published in Russian translation as Perekhod k demokratii [Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia, 1993].)

Articles
“The Limits of Liberation: Gender and Revolution in Everyday Life,” in Russell Zanca and Jeff Sahadeo, eds., Everyday Life in Central Asia (under review).

“Envisioning Empire: Veils and Visual Revolution in Soviet Central Asia,” in Valerie Kivelson and Joan Neuberger, eds., The Russian Visual Documents Reader (under review).

“Subaltern Dialogues: Subversion and Resistance in Soviet Uzbek Family Law,” Slavic Review 60:1 (Spring 2001), 115-39. Revised version published in Lynne Viola, ed., Contending with Stalinism: Soviet Power and Popular Resistance in the 1930s (Cornell University Press, 2002), 109-38. Winner of 2001 Heldt Prize for best article published in Slavic/East European/Eurasian women’s studies.

“Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity,” in Ronald Suny and Terry Martin, eds., State of Nations: The Soviet State and Its Peoples (Oxford University Press, 2001), 191-220. Winner of National Graduate Essay Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies.

“Hujum: Unveiling Campaigns and Local Responses, Uzbekistan 1927,” in Donald Raleigh, ed., Provincial Landscapes: Local Dimensions of Soviet Power, 1917-53 (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), 125-45.

“Languages of Loyalty: Gender, Politics, and Party Supervision in Uzbekistan, 1927-41,” Russian Review 59:2 (April 2000), 179-200.

“Reconsidering Sultan-Galiev,” in Gail Lapidus and Corbin Lyday, eds., Selected Topics in Soviet Ethnopolitics (Berkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 1992), 1-44.

Book Reviews
Arne Haugen, The Establishment of National Republics in Soviet Central Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), published in Europe-Asia Studies (December 2004).

Eric Lohr, Nationalizing the Russian Empire: The Campaign Against Enemy Aliens during World War I (Harvard University Press, 2003), published in Canadian American Slavic Studies (2004).

Mary Masayo Doi, Gesture, Gender, Nation: Dance and Social Change in Uzbekistan (Bergin & Garvey, 2002), published in Russian Review 62:1 (January 2003), 179-80.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Central Eurasian Studies Society; Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Southern Conference on Slavic Studies

RESEARCH LANGUAGES
Russian, Uzbek, and some Turkish and German.

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