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: Russian History

CURRENT RESEARCH:

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

TEACHING INTERESTS:

Russian/Soviet History (all periods); Modern European History; European Jewish History; Nations and Nationalism

COURSES:

HIST 324 Imperial Russia
HIST 331 Soviet Union
HIST 492 Capstone Seminar: Nation & Empire in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union
HIST 521 Graduate Reading Seminar in European History Since 1815
HIST 101 Western Civilization Since 1600
HIST 481: Modern European Jewish History

PUBLICATIONS;

• “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 [New Literary Review] (forthcoming, 2010).
• Review essay of Arkadii Zel’tser, 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.
• “‘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

FELLOWSHIPS/MAJOR GRANTS:

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Frankel Institute for Advanced Jewish Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
National Foundation for Jewish Culture Dissertation Fellowship
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE:

Faculty Co-Advisor for the History Club and History Honors Society (Phi Alpha Theta)