Education
- PhD, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015
- MA, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
- BA, History, Vassar College, 2005
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Assembling Fordizm: The Production of Automobiles, Americans, and Bolsheviks in Detroit and Early Soviet Russia,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 56, no 2 (April 2014): 259-289. Link PDF
Book Reviews
Review of How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, Daniel Immerwahr. Journal of American History 107, no 1 (June 2020): 227. Link PDF
Review of Americans Experience Russia: Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present, Choi Chatterjee and Beth Holmgren, eds. Journal of American Studies 48, no 1 (February 2014):E16. Link PDF
Review of The Selected Papers of Jane Addams Volume 2: Venturing into Usefulness, Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Barbara Bair, Maree de Angury, eds. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 103, no 3-4. (Fall-Winter 2010): 380-382. Link
Teaching
- Lecturer – University of Illinois at Chicago, 2016-
- Women and Politics in Twentieth Century Chicago
- Research Experience in Library and Information Science
- The Daleys’ Chicago: From Midcentury to Global City
- City at a Crossroads: Local, National, and Global Politics in Chicago, 1968
- Global Encounters in Chicago
- Lecturer – Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-2016
- Survey of United States History I
- Survey of United States History II
- Instructor – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2012 – 2014
- Sex and Terrorism in the United States and the World
- History of Illinois
- Teaching Assistant – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008-2010
- United States in the World since 1917
- United States History to 1877
- The Holocaust
- United States History since 1877
Selected Conference Presentations & Invited Lectures
“Undergraduate Courses in Chicago-Based Archival Research: In-person, Online, and Back Again,”
Chicago Research Summit, October 2021
“Creative Changes: Keeping Outreach Going During the Pandemic,”
Curating and Exhibits Group, Chicago Area Archivists, April 2021
“Richard M. Daley Oral History Project,”
Chicago Open Archives Unconference, Chicago Area Archivists, October 2020
“When Bolshevism was a Love Story: Americans and the Bolshevik Revolution on Film,”
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, November 2017
“Emotions and American Aid to Bolshevik Russia,”
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference, June 2017
“Finding Americans in Bolshevik Russia: Refugees, Repatriation, and the Boundaries of Americanization,”
Presentation at “Americans Overseas: The United States in the World since 1865,”
Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, UK, April 2016
“Borders of Relief: Repatriation, Refugee Migration, & American Humanitarian Work in & out of the Russian Famine of 1921”
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference, June 2014
“When Bolshevism Was a Love Story: Empire, Attraction, and Revolution in American and Russian Silent Films,”
SHAFR Summer Institute, Storrs, CT, June 2012
“Between the Ford Man and the New Soviet Man: Connections and Collisions in Detroit and Soviet Russia,”
North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 2011
“Assembling Fordizm: The Production of Automobiles, Americans, and Bolsheviks in Detroit and Early Soviet Russia,”
New Approaches to America and the World Conference, University of Chicago, April 2011
“Fordizm and ‘American Efficiency’ in Soviet Russia,”
Benson Ford Research Center, Dearborn, MI, January 13, 2011
“‘A Man’s Size Job’: American Masculinity in the Occupation of North Russia, 1918-1919,”
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Conference, June 2009
“Imagining and Encountering the Bolshevik: Gender and U.S. Troops in Russia”
Tenth Annual Conference of the Space Between Society, Northwestern University, June 2008
Public History Projects
Co-Curator, “A Search for Unity: Rudy Lozano and Coalition Building in Chicago”
Exhibit on the life and legacy of activist, organizer, and politician Rudy Lozano
Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago
2022
Curator, “Chicago Alert!: The City Plans for Atomic Attack”
Digital exhibit examining the origins and evolution of civil defense planning in Chicago
https://exhibits.library.uic.edu/chicago_alert
Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago
2021
Co-Curator, “Millennium City: Richard M. Daley & Global Chicago”
Digital exhibit presenting oral histories with 45 figures in Chicago and national politics
https://exhibits.library.uic.edu/rmd
Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago
2021
Curator, “ERA YES! The Fight for Gender Equality in Illinois”
Exhibit celebrating Illinois’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in 2018
Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago
2019-2020
Curator, “The Queen and the Boss: Elizabeth II Visits Chicago”
Exhibit for the 50th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s 1959 trip to Chicago
Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago
2019
Co-Curator, “Race Riots and Chicago in 1919”
Online exhibit marking the centennial of the 1919 Chicago Race Riot
https://exhibits.chicagocollections.org/1919/
Chicago Collections Consortium
2019
Curator, “Chicago Alert!: The City Plans for Atomic Attack”
Exhibit examining the origins and evolution of civil defense planning in Chicago
Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago
2018-2019
Curator, “Soldiers’ Cartoons from World War I”
Exhibit marking the centenary of the end of the Great War
Part of “The War that Made Today” interdisciplinary program, University of Illinois at Chicago
2018-2019
Curator, “Division & Possibility: UIC Circle Student Protests, 1968”
Exhibit co-curated by Honors College seminar students
Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago
2018
Curator, “Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot”
Exhibit marking National Organization of Women Chicago Chapter 50th anniversary
Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago
2017-2018
Richard M. Daley Oral History Project
Research and planning for a two year project to conduct 50 interviews of figures in Chicago and national politics
Richard J. Daley Library, University of Illinois at Chicago
2017-2019
Awards and Fellowships
- Joseph Ward Swain Prize, for most outstanding graduate publication, University of Illinois, 2015
- Robert A. and Barbara Divine Travel Grant, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Summer 2014
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, UIUC Center for Teaching Excellence, Spring 2014
- William C. Widenor Teaching Award, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2014
- Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Graduate Fellowship, 2012-2013
- Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Graduate Fellowship in Global and Transnational Studies, 2012-2013
- Graduate College Dissertation Travel Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2012
- Graduate Scholar Affiliate, International Forum for United States Studies, 2011-2012
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship – Russian, 2011-2012
- Critical Language Scholarship – Russian, U.S. Department of State, Summer 2011
- Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship, Lilly Library, Indiana University, 2011
- Clark Travel-to-Collections Research Grant, Benson Ford Research Center, Dearborn, MI, 2011
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship – Russian, 2010-2011
- Bastian Summer Research Fellowship, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Summer 2010
- Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship – Russian, Summer 2010
- List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, UIUC Center for Teaching Excellence, Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
- University of Illinois Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007-2008
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