About
Historian, Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Host, New Books in Russian Studies podcast series
Host, New Books in East European Studies podcast series
Research development, program management and university-community partnerships Education
PhD, History, University of Washington
MA, Russian and East Europeam Studies, University of Washington
BA, International Studies, Florida State University Publications
“Commemorating the “Living Torch of Freedom”: Searching for a Usable Past in Romas Kalanta’s 1972 Self-Immolation,”
Ab Imperio 2/2015, pp. 162-182.
“From the Big Screen to the Streets of Kaunas: Youth Cultural Practices and Communist Party Discourse in Soviet Lithuania,”
Cahiers du Monde Russe special issue “Beyond Brezhnevism: Growing Autonomy for Social Groups and Assimilation of Socialist Values,” 54/3-4, July-December 2013, pp. 467-490.
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Negotiating Narratives of Kaunas 1972 from Archives to Oral Interviews,”
REECAS Newsletter, Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Spring/Summer 2012.
Memberships
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
American Historical Association
Coordinating Council for Women in History
