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African American Studies
September 10, 2020
Bury My Heart in a Free Land
Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History
Hettie V. Williams
Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Black women intellectuals have traditionally been overlooked in the academic study of American intellectual history. Bury My Heart in a Free Land: Black Women Intellectuals in Modern U.S. History (Praeger) …
African American Studies
August 3, 2020
Birth Control Battles
How Race and Class Divided American Religion
Melissa J. Wilde
Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Although it has largely been erased from the collective memory of American Christianity, the debate over eugenics was a major factor in the history of 20th-century religious movements, with many …
Russian and Eurasian Studies
June 23, 2020
Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia
Laura A. Dean
Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Laura A. Dean (Assistant Professor of Political Science at Millikin University and director of the Human Trafficking Research Lab) has spent many years investigating the urgent human rights issue of …
American Studies
June 10, 2020
Tiny You
A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement
Jennifer Holland
Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Although much has been written about the anti-abortion movement in the United States, Jennifer Holland (Assistant Professor of U.S. History, University of Oklahoma) has written the first monograph-length history of …
Gender Studies
May 19, 2020
Mary, Mother of Martyrs
How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity
Kathleen Gallagher Elkins
Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Throughout Christian history, the Virgin Mary has been idealized as a self-sacrificing mother and a model for all Christian women to emulate. However, she is one of many ancient maternal …
Literary Studies
May 18, 2020
Life is Elsewhere
Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces
Anne Lounsbery
Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
In her journey through the greatest monuments of 19th- and early 20th-century Russian literature, as well as through lesser-known works from women and regional writers, Anne Lounsbery (Professor and Chair …
Literary Studies
November 20, 2019
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev
Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great (Liverpool University Press, 2019) is the first scholarly monograph devoted to the comprehensive analysis of the letters of Empress Catherine the Great of …
African Studies
October 23, 2019
Women Political Leaders in Rwanda and South Africa
Narratives of Triumph and Loss
Naleli Morojele
Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Rwanda and South Africa have some of the highest rates of women’s political representation in the world, with significant growth particularly in the last 20 years. Through interviews with eleven …
East Asian Studies
July 18, 2019
Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War
Betsy Perabo
Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
As Russian militarism becomes increasingly intertwined with Russian Orthodoxy theology in the 21st century, the history of the Church’s relationship to war and its justification becomes particularly relevant. Betsy Perabo’s …
Art
May 27, 2019
Global Art and the Cold War
John J. Curley
Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
It was the passionate amateur painter, Winston Churchill, who introduced one of the Cold War’s key metaphors: The Iron Curtain. As John J. Curley argues in Global Art and the …
Literary Studies
April 16, 2019
Plots Against Russia
Conspiracy and Fantasy after Socialism
Eliot Borenstein
Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
Since the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, conspiratorial thinking has taken deep root in contemporary Russia, moving from the margins to the forefront of cultural, historical, and political …
Film
August 1, 2018
Performing Femininity
Woman as Performer in Early Russian Cinema
Rachel Morley
Hosted by Diana Dukhanova
In studying the pre-Revolutionary films of Evgenii Bauer, Dr. Rachel Morley (Lecturer in Russian Cinema and Culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London) discovered …