Rebecca Friedman (February 2016) Associate Professor of History Faculty Fellow, Office of the Provost Director, Polish Lecture Series 520 PC: Office of Faculty & Global Affairs Florida International University Miami Florida 33199 Education Ph.D., University of Michigan, Russian History, 2000 Fields o Modern Russia o Early Russia o Modern Eastern Europe o Polish Literature M.A., University of Michigan, Russian History, 1994 B.A., University of Michigan, Slavic Languages & Literatures (Highest Honors) and History, 1990 Selected Academic Employment Associate Professor, Department of History, Florida International University, 2006- to present (Member of Graduate Faculty, Dissertation Advisor Status, 2005-present, renewed 2014); Assistant Professor 2000-2006 Director, Polish Lecture Series, 2009-present Co-Director of Miami-Florida European Union Center of Excellence (MEUCE), 2009-2015 Director of European Studies, Florida International University, 2008-2015 Interim Associate Director, Women s Studies Center, Florida International University, 2005-2006 Humanities Program Faculty, Florida International University, 2000-2006 Selected Scholarship Monograph in Progress: Time at Home. Article in Progress: Time for Luxury: Stolitsa i Usadba Revisited, to be submitted to Slavic Review February 1, 2017.. Book Chapter. Home and Hearth: Representing Childhood in Fin de siècle Russia in Kate Darian-Smith and Carla Pascoe, eds. Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage. (Routledge Series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage, 2012), 257-269. Featured/Extended Book Review. Catherine Evtuhov, Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy, Society, and Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Nizhnii Novgorod in the Slavic Review. (vol. 71, no. 4 (Winter 2012): 902-905. Edited Book. European Identity and Culture: Narratives of Transnational Belonging, edited volume with Markus Thiel (Ashgate Press, May 2012). Journal Article. Masculinity, the Body, and Coming of Age in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Cadet Corps Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Vol 5.2 (Spring 2012): 219-238. Featured/Extended Book Review. Catherine Evtuhov, Portrait of a Russian Province: Economy, Society, and Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Nizhnii Novgorod Slavic Review. (in press, spring 2013) Encyclopedia Article: Family, Russian, 1700-1917 in Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History (SMERSH)/10 (June 2011): 72-79.
2 Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863 (Basingstoke/NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). Russian Masculinities in History and Culture, eds. Barbara Clements, Rebecca Friedman, and Dan Healey (Palgrave and St. Martin s, 2002). Romantic Friendship in the Nicholaevan University The Russian Review (April 2003), 262-280. From Boys to Men: Manhood in the Nicholaevan University in Russian Masculinities in History and Culture (Palgrave and St. Martin s, 2002), 33-50. Conclusions with Dan Healey in Russian Masculinities in History and Culture (Palgrave and St. Martin s, 2002), 223-235. Essays for the Website Children and Youth in History http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/ http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/case-studies/273 http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/primary-sources/274 Book Reviews, including: Journal of the History of Sexuality, The Russian Review, Comparativ, The Journal of Modern History, Slavic Review, Russian Review. Selected Awards/Fellowships/Grants University of Illinois, Russian and Eastern European and Eurasian Studies Center, funding for upcoming Fisher Forum Workshop on the Soviet Home (June 2017) in collaboration with Deirdre Ruscutti, University of Illinois ORED/FIU Collaborative Pilot Program Award (2016-2017) Participant, Global Feminisms Project, Office of the Vice Provost, University of Michigan, (grant funding to perform interviews on contemporary Russian feminist activists/scholars as part of larger Global Feminisms Project) (2015-2016) Illinois Summer Research Lab Housing Award, (June 2015) Sabbatical Award, Florida International University (Fall 2013) Florida International University A&S Summer Faculty Research Grant (Summer 2010) National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award (2006-2008) Florida International University Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching (Fall 2005) 2005 FIU Foundation Faculty Research Award (Summer 2005) Title VI, Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies at FIU, Summer Research Award (Summer 2005) 2003 Provost Office and FIU Foundation Summer Research Award (Summer 2003) Associate of the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University (July 2001-June 2004 renewed for 2004-2007) 2002 Arts and Sciences Summer Faculty Research Grant, Florida International University (FIU) (Summer 2002) 2001 Provost Office and FIU Foundation Summer Research Award (Summer 2001) Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Short-term Grant, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D. C. (July 1998) Social Science Research Council (SSRC) 12-month Dissertation Fellowship (1997) International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Long-Term Advanced Research Grant (1995-1996) Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES) Year-Long Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship in Polish (1994-1995) and in Ukrainian (1993-1994), University of Michigan Institutional/Project Grants (PI) American Association of Learned Societies, Digital Extension Grant, Project Team, led by the University of Michigan (Sueann Caufield) to launch Phase III of the Global Feminisms Project ($150,000) Jean Monnet Center of Excellence Grant from the European Commission, Brussels (2015-2018) (120,000 Euros)
3 Jean Monnet Project Grant on Smart Cities from the European Commission, Brussels (2015-2017) (40,000 Euros) EU Center of Excellence Grant from the European Commission, Brussels (with University of Miami) (2011-2014 (600,000 Euros; 2014-2015 90,000 Euros) BILAT/FP7 EU Grant in Innovation Partnerships, FIU Partner (2012-2015 70,000 Euros and 2016-2020, 40,000 Euros) Selected Presentations/Invited Lectures Round Table on the Soviet Home, Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, November 2017 (Chicago), proposal submitted Soviet Dust: Temporality, Domesticity and Early Revolutionary Ideology, Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, November 2016 (Washington DC) Discussant, The Provincial Enlightenment in Nineteenth-Century Russia, Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, November 2016 (Washington DC) Round Table on Past, Present and Future: Exploring Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Time, Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies, November 2015 (Philadelphia) Daily Time/Private Time: Domestic Interiors and Modern Temporalities, Southern Conference of Slavic Studies, March 2015 (Lexington) Time at Home: Material Realities and Russian Longing at the Fin de siècle an invited lecture for the European Union center of Excellence at the University of Illinois January 2015 From Gentry Estates to Urban Apartments: Temporality and Domesticity at Russia s Fin de Siècle an invited lecture at the Center for Russian and Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Michigan November 2014 Antique Clocks, Gentry Estates, and Nostalgic Vistas for the Time and Temporalities in the Modern World Conference, University of Leuven, Belgium October 2013 Peasant Huts, Gentry Estates and Nostalgic Vistas: Russian Temporality at the Fin de siècle an invited lecture for the University of North Carolina History Seminar Series, October 2013 Cleanliness and Efficiency in the Urban Apartment: Revolutions in Temporality and Domesticity at the Fin de Siècle (organized and presented paper) for Association of Slavic Eurasian, and East European Studies, November 2013 (Boston) Space and Place in Russian History, Panel Chair. Association of Slavic Eurasian, and East European Studies, November 2013 (Boston) "Nostalgia at Home: The Domestic Interior at the End of the Old Regime American Association for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (New Orleans, November 2012) Childhood in Fin de siècle Russian Lifestyle magazines Society for the History of Childhood and Youth International Conference (NYC June 2011) Representations of the Everyday: Lifestyle Magazines in Early 20 th -Century Russia Southern Council of Slavic Studies (Washington DC April 2011) Representations of the Domestic Interior at the turn of the Twentieth Century for conference on Everyday Life in
4 Modern Russia (Indiana University, May 2010) Narrating the Self: Gender and Coming of Age in Late Imperial Russia American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (November 2009) -- organized Roundtable on Gender and Memoir Sources American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (November 2009) organized Representations of Russian Girlhood at Home and on the Street at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (November 2008) At Home in Russia: Childhood, Gender and the Domestic Interior Berkshires Conference on Women s and Gender History (June 2008) Adolescent Asceticism in Nineteenth-Century Russia: Autocracy, Students and the Making of Men Invited Lecture at the Beyond Pleasure conference in Leuven, Belgium (October 2005) Gendered Passages: From Childhood to Youth in Nineteenth-Century Russia presented at the conference Children s Worlds, Children in the World Milwaukee (August 2005) Chair, Roundtable: Book Session on Secret Gardens and Satanic Mills: Placing Girls in European History at the conference Children s Worlds, Children in the World Milwaukee (August 2005) Shaping the Bodies of Russian Men: Gender and Nobility in the Cadet Corps presented at the World Conference of Slavic Studies, Berlin (July 2005) Discussant, Making Soviet Man Southern Council of Slavic Studies (March 2004) Official Prescriptions and Unofficial Practices in the Nineteenth-Century Cadet Corps American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (November 2003) Passionate Friend, Respectable Servitor: The Making of Manhood in the 19 th -Century Russian University American Historical Association (January 2003) Male Friendship in Nineteenth-Century Russia Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (June 2002) Servitors for the Empire Masculinity in Russia: an Interdisciplinary Workshop at the University of Illinois (June 2002) The Loyal Son Southern Council of Slavic Studies (SCSS) (March 2001) Manhood, Myth, and Memory American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) (November 1999) PhD Students Josue Rey, Co-Chair, The civil war of ideas: Ayn Rand, intellectual freedom, and the regulation of thought in the Soviet Union and United States, 1905-1943, 2010 Lorie de la Fe, Chair, Empire's Children: Soviet Childhood in the Age of Revolution, 2013 Susan Rosenkranz, Chair, To Hold the World in Contempt": The British Empire, War, and the Irish and Indian Nationalist Press, 1899-1914, 2013
5 Melissa Malone, Chair, Constructing Childhood: Place, Space and Nation in Argentina, 1880-1955, 2015 Lisa Howe, Chair, Spirited Pioneer: The Life of Emma Hardinge Britten, 2015 Professional Service at FIU Faculty Ombudsman, September 2016- Faculty Fellow, Office of the Provost, 2015-2017 STRIDE Committee Member, 2015- Faculty Advisory Group, Wolfsonian-FIU, 2014- CARTA, Proposal Review, 2015- Co-Director, Miami-Florida European Union center of Excellence, Fall 2009-Summer 2015 Director, European Studies, Fall 2008-Summer 2015 College and Arts and Sciences Strategic Planning Committee, 2014-2015 Personnel Committee, Department of History, 2011-2015 Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History, 2008- Reviewer for the Wolfsonian-FIU fellowships 2007/2008 Member of the Wolfsonian-FIU Visual and Material Culture Working Group, 2008-2012 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, 2006-2007 Associate Director, Women s Studies Center, FIU, 2005-2006 Faculty Senate FIU, 2004-2007 and 2010-2014 Women Studies FIU, Faculty Affiliate, 2000-present Women s Studies Library Liaison FIU, 2004-2006 Faculty Senate Representative on Committee for Parental Leave, 2004 Department of History FIU, Advisory Committee, 2004-2006 Department of History, Undergraduate Committee FIU, 2001-2007 Humanities Program FIU, Undergraduate Advisor, 2000-2010 History Department FIU, Undergraduate Advisor (BBC campus), 2003-present Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta FIU, 2001-2004 College of Arts and Sciences Library Committee FIU, Spring 2001 and 2002-2003 Ad Hoc Policy Committee, Department of History FIU, 2000-2001 Department of History, Selected Search Committees, 2004-present Sephardic Studies Board, 2005-2006 Individual Professional Memberships Society for the History of Childhood and Youth (SHCY) Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) American Historical Association (AHA) Association of Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) Southern Council on Slavic Studies (SCSS) International/National Professional Service Review Panel, NEH, Summer Stipends, European Panel, November 2015 Review Panel, Title VI, Russian and Eastern European Studies Centers, Department of Education, August 2014 Editorial Board, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth Editorial Board, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 2015-present Monograph/Manuscript Reviewer, Oxford University Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Routledge Manuscript Reviewer, Aspasia, Slavic Review, Journal for the History of Childhood and Youth, Kritika, Russian Review, Journal of Women s History, Journal of the History of Sexuality Member of Review Board, ACLS Short-term Grant in the Humanities for Scholars in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Representative, Women s Studies Center, FIU to the Bejing+10 Conference, NYC (March 2005) Contributing Review Editor, Biography, University of Hawaii Press, Fall 2002-present
6 Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian References: Available upon request