PhD in History (2020)
About
I am a historian of the global twentieth century. My teaching and research interests span a broad range of topics including humanitarianism, gender, economic life, ethics, and social welfare in the post-World War II world. My research on "private humanitarians" in the period of socialism connects multiple conceptual threads such as globalization, natural disasters, diaspora and migration, austerity economics, and transnational solidarity practices through historical as well as multi-sited ethnographic analysis. I invite you to learn more about my research, teaching, and ongoing academic projects by visiting my personal website.
As of August 2020, I have started a position as Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar affiliated with the Sawyer Seminar Humanitarianisms: Migrations and Care Through the Global South at the University of Washington's Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities.
Affiliations
- Center for European Studies
- Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- Institute for Research on Women and Gender
- Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies
Fields of Study
- Global and World History
- Modern East-Central Europe
- Humanitarianism
- Socialism and Post-Socialism
- Austerity Economics, State Welfare, and Social Unrest
Awards (Selection)
- Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2018-19
- Dissertation Grant, Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, 2016
- International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/Social Science Research Council, 2015-16
- Community of Scholars Fellowship, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan, 2015
- Fulbright Fellowship, IIE/Fulbright Commission, 2011-12
