Assistant Professor Deborah Yalen Clark B369 (970) 491-3708 Deborah.Yalen@colostate.edu

Education:

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
M.A. Georgetown University
B.A. Columbia University

Specializing in: Imperial Russian and Soviet History

CURRENT RESEARCH:

Book manuscript in-progress: The Soviet Shtetl: Ideology, Scholarship, Memory

TEACHING INTERESTS:

Imperial Russian & Soviet History; Modern Jewish History; Modern European History; Nations and Nationalism

COURSES:

HIST521: Graduate M.A. Reading Seminar in European History Since 1815
HIST492: Capstone Seminar: Nation & Empire in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
HIST481a3: Modern European Jewish History
HIST331: Soviet Union
HIST324: Imperial Russia
HIST101: Western Civilization Since 1600

PUBLICATIONS;

Articles:

• "Tak nazyvaemoe 'evreiskoe' mestechko": shtetl i bol'shevistskie ideologiia i nauka v periode mezhdu dvumia Mirovymi voinami" [The So-Called 'Jewish' Mestechko: the Shtetl and Bolshevik Ideology and Scholarship during the Interwar Period]. Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie 102 [New Literary Review] (June 2010). Published in print and on-line at http://magazines.russ.ru/nlo/2010/102/ia12.html. Republished on the Russian news website Polit.ru (http://polit.ru/research/2010/07/07/shtetl.html).
• On the Social-Economic Front: The Polemics of Shtetl Research During the Stalin Revolution. Science in Context 20/2 (June 2007): 239-301.
• Documenting the New Red Kasrilevke: Shtetl Ethnography as Revolutionary Narrative. East European Jewish Affairs 37/3 (December 2007): 353-375

Book Reviews:

• Anna Shternshis, Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939. 253 pp. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. University of Toronto Quarterly 80:2 (Spring, 2011).
• V.A. Dymshits, A.L. L'vov and A.V. Sokolova, eds., Shtetl XXI vek (polevye issledovaniia) [The Shtetl of the 21st Century: Field Research]. 292 pp. St. Petersburg: European University in St. Petersburg, 2008. East European Jewish Affairs 40/2 (2010): 176-182.
• Arkadii Zeltser, Evrei sovetskoi provintsii: Vitebsk i mestechki 1917-1941 [Jews of the Soviet Provinces: Vitebsk and the Shtetls, 1917-1941]. 478 pp. Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2006. ISBN 5824307814. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 10/1 (Winter 2009): 194-204.

Encyclopedia Entries:

• "Margolis, Osher Leibovich" in The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Margolis_Osher_Leibovich)

FELLOWSHIPS/MAJOR GRANTS:

US Department of State Title VIII Individual Advanced Research Opportunity Fellowship
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture International Fellowship in Jewish Studies and Jewish Culture
Frankel Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) Post-Doctoral Fellowship
National Foundation for Jewish Culture Dissertation Fellowship
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship

SERVICE:

CSU

Executive Committee, Department of History (Fall 2011-Spring 2012) Faculty Co-Advisor for the History Club and History Honors Society/Phi Alpha Theta (Fall 2008-Spring 2010) Anonymous Referee for CSU's Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Excellence (Spring 2010)

External

Advisory Board Member of Tsaytshrift/časopis, a Belarusian peer-reviewed annual devoted to all aspects of Jewish Studies, published by the Center for the Study of the History and Culture of the Jews of Belarus, European Humanities University, Vilnius