DIRECTORY LISTING
Biography
Academic Interests
Russian history, history of crime and punishment
Research
In my research I focus on the social and cultural history of Russia and the Soviet Union and on the international history of crime and punishment. I am currently finishing a book manuscript entitled “The Soviet War on Crime: The Criminal in Society, 1953-1991," a cultural and intellectual history of crime in the Soviet Union, which offers a new perspective on the Soviet state’s collapse and the effects of cold war ideological conflict on global conceptions of justice. My research has been published in the journals Russian History, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, and Aspasia: International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History. I am also working on an article about the first publicly recognized Soviet serial killer, whose trial in 1964 led many to ponder whether socialism truly had improved humanity. My next book project will focus on children’s colonies in the two decades after the Russian Revolution.