Wintersemester 25/26

31202 (Grundkurs) - Einführung in die Geschichte Osteuropas (Mi 12-14)

31203 (Vertiefungsseminar) - Queering Soviet History (Mo 10-12)

Sommersemester 2025

31202 (Seminar) - Chernobyl’, Chornobyl’ or Charnobyl’? Cultures and Geographies of its Aftermath (Mo 10-12)

Sommersemester 2024

13195 (Seminar) - Wie aus Moskau ein Imperium wurde. Aufregende Geschichten aus der Frühen Neuzeit (Do 14-16)

31202 (Seminar) - Economies of Socialism after the Second World War (Mi 14-16)

Forschungsschwerpunkte (research focus)

• Geschlechtergeschichte

• Geschichte der Gewalt

• Geschichte der Kriminalität

• Geschichte der Politischen Ökonomie

• Soziologie der Arbeit

• Geschichte der Arbeit

• Emotionsgeschichte

Forschungsprojekt

„Arbeit als erstes Lebensbedürfnis“? – Eine Emotions- und Kulturgeschichte der Arbeit in der späten Sowjetunion, 1960-1980

Monographie
Herausgeberschaften/Sonderhefte
Artikel (peer-reviewed)
Artikel
Rezensionen (Auswahl)


Monographie

• Oberländer, Alexandra. Unerhörte Subjekte: Die Wahrnehmung sexueller Gewalt in Russland 1880–1910. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2013.

Herausgeberschaften/Sonderhefte

• With Rukmini Barua, Julia Wambach, and Caroline Moine, eds. “The Global 70s: A Decade of Disenchantment?.” Special issue, New Global Studies 17, no. 2 (2023).

• With Rukmini Barua, eds. “Fluid Feelings.” Special issue, L'Homme: Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 32, no. 2 (2021).

• With Maike Lehmann, eds. “Really Existing Soviet Subjects.” Special issue, Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 48, no. 2 (2021).

• With Maike Lehmann, eds. “Family, Gender and (dis)Abled Bodies.” Special issue, East European Politics, Society & Culture 34, no. 4 (2020).

Artikel (peer-reviewed)

• “Romancing Labor: or, Why Shabashniki Worked Harder than the Soviet Union Allowed.” In Soviet Workers in the World: Soviet Labor and Working-Class History in Global Context, edited by Emily Elliott and James Nealy. London: Bloomsbury, 2025 (forthcoming).

• “Girl’s Army of Vengeance? Perceptions of Sexual Violence Against Children in Post-1905 Russia.” Gender & History (2023).

• “‘To be a woman is hard work’: The Changing Landscape of Gendered Emotions in the Late Soviet Union.” L'Homme: Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 32, no. 2 (2021): 79–96.

• “Working Faces, Facing Work: Portraying Work(ers) in the Late Soviet Union.” Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 48, no. 2 (2021): 211–34.

• “Hatching Money: The Political Economy of Eggs in the Soviet 1960s.” Cahiers du monde russe 61, no. 1–2 (2020): 231–56.

• “Cushy Work, Back-Breaking Leisure: Late Soviet Work Ethics Reconsidered.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian Studies 18, no. 3 (2017): 569–90.

• “Zur Politisierung sexueller Gewalt: Der Fall Marija Spiridonova im revolutionären Russland 1906.” L’Homme: Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 27, no. 2 (2016): 133–42.

• “Shame and Modern Subjectivities: The Rape of Elizaveta Cheremnova in 1882.” In Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe, edited by Mark D. Steinberg and Valeria Sobol, 82–101. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011.

Artikel

• With Rukmini Barua, Julia Wambach, and Caroline Moine. “Introduction: ‘The Global 70s: A Decade of Disenchantment?’.” New Global Studies 17, no. 2 (2023): 125–33.

• With Rukmini Barua. “Introduction: ‘Fluid Feelings’.” L'Homme: Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 32, no. 2 (2021): 13–20.

• With Maike Lehmann. “Introduction: ‘Really Existing Soviet Subjects’.” Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 48, no. 2 (2021): 164–70.

• With Maike Lehmann. “Socialism to be Embodied.” East European Politics, Society & Culture 34, no. 4 (2020): 802–16.

• “Totgesagte leben länger – Einmal von der Sowjetunion ins Silicon Valley und wieder zurück? Eine Kulturgeschichte der Arbeit in der späten Sowjetunion, 1960–1980.” Zeitgeschichte-online, March 2018.

Rezensionen (Auswahl)

• Review of The Soviet Union and the Construction of the Global Market: Energy and the Ascent of Finance in Cold War Europe, 1964–1971, by Oscar Sanchez-Sibony. The American Historical Review 130, no. 2 (2025): 938–39. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf066.
• Review of The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins: Imagining Utopia, 1870s–1920s, by Maria Todorova. H-Soz-Kult, August 26, 2024, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-98855.
• Review of Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture, by Maya Vinokour. H-Soz-Kult, August 19, 2024, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-139507.
• Review of The Soviet Passport. The History, Nature and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR, by Albert Baiburin. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 72, no. 3 (2024): 508–10.
• Review of Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg, by Olga Petri. H-Soz-Kult, October 31, 2023, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-132620.
• Review of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century, by Amia Srinivasan. L'Homme: Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 34, no. 2 (2023): 165–68.
• Review of Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin, by Anna Toropova. Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 70, no. 3–4 (2022): 620–22.
• Review of Rabochij klass v SSSR: žizn' v uslovijach promyšlennogo paternalizma, by Maksim Lebskij. H-Soz-Kult, October 25, 2022.
• Review of Smetaia zaprety: Ocherki russkoi seksual'noi kul'tury XI-XX vekov, by Natalia Pushkareva, A. Belova, and N. Mitsiuk. Slavic Review 81, no. 2 (2022): 513–14.
• “Provincializing Prostitution.” Featured review of Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in late Imperial Russia, by Siobhán Hearne. The Russian Review 81, no. 3 (2022): 556–60.
• Review of Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order, by Stefan J. Link. H-Diplo Roundtable XXIII-28, March 7, 2022.
• Review of Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland, by Juliane Fürst. H-Soz-Kult, August 11, 2021.
• Review of The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia, by Alexey Golubev. H-Soz-Kult, March 31, 2021.
• Review of Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945–1989: Contributions to a History of Work, edited by Marsha Siefert. Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 69, no. 5 (2021): 486–88.
• Review of Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse, by Ethan Pollock. H-Soz-Kult, September 15, 2020.
• Review of Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow, by Jeff Sahadeo. The Russian Review (2020).
• Review of The Fate of the New Man: Representing & Reconstructing Masculinity in Soviet Visual Culture, 1945–1965, by Claire E. McCallum. Slavic Review 28, no. 2 (2019): 611–12.
• “Beam Me Up/Out/Elsewhere, Tovarishch: Negotiating the Everyday in Late Socialism.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian Studies 19, no. 2 (2018): 433–44.