LAURA S. HODGMAN (fka Laura L. Phillips) Professor of History Department of History 103 Patterson Hall Eastern Washington University Cheney, Washington 99004 Voice mail: (509) 359-6025 e-mail: lhodgman@ewu.edu Education Ph.D., History, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1993. M.A., History, University of Illinois-Urbana, 1987. B.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1984. Major Publications No Cinderella Story: Friends Remember Benderella, aka Benjamin Scott Rae, Oral History Review, forthcoming. Spokane s Pride: An LGBT Oral History, http://spokanespride.org (2014-present) Life in the Big City: Migrants Cope with Daily Events, in Christine D. Worobec, ed., The Human Tradition in Imperial Russia, Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. Gendered Dis/ability: Perspectives from the Treatment of Psychiatric Casualties in Russia s Early Twentieth-Century Wars, Social History of Medicine 20 (August 2007): 333-50; doi: 10.1093/shm/hkm035. Bolsheviks and the Bottle: Drink and Worker Culture in St. Petersburg, 1900-1929, Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. "In Defense of their Families: Working-Class Women, Alcohol, and Politics in Revolutionary Russia," Journal of Women's History 11 (Spring 1999): 97-120. "Message in a Bottle: Working-Class Culture and the Struggle for Revolutionary Legitimacy, 1900-1929," The Russian Review 56 (January 1997): 25-43. Reviews and Other Publications Review of Dan Healey, Bolshevik Sexual Forensics: Diagnosing Disorder in the Clinic and the Courtroom in Canadian-American Slavic Studies 47 (2013): 65-66.
Review of Boris B. Gorshkov, Russia s Factory Children: State, Society, and the Law, 1800-1917 in Slavic Review 69 (Winter 2010): 1007-08. Review of Page Herrlinger, Working Souls: Russian Orthodoxy and Factory Labor in St. Petersburg, 1881-1971 in Slavic Review 68 (Winter 2009): 998-99. Review of Tricia Starks, Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State in Russian Journal of Communication 2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 143-45. Review of Rolf Hellebust, Flesh to Metal: Soviet Literature and the Alchemy of Revolution in Russian History 31 (Fall 2004): 339-41. Review of Barbara Evans Clements, Rebecca Friedman, and Dan Healey, eds., Russian Masculinities in History and Culture in The Historian 66 (2004): 390-91. Review of Dan Healey, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent in Slavic Review 62 (Spring 2003): 187-88. Review of Patricia Herlihy, The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka and Politics in Late Imperial Russia in The Russian Review 61 (July 2002): 457-58. Review of Aleksandr Nikitenko, Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824 in Labor History 43 (February/May 2002): 237-38. Review of Madeleine Hurd, Public Spheres, Public Mores, and Democracy: Hamburg and Stockholm, 1870-1914 in Social History of Alcohol Review, 16 (Fall 2001/Spring 2002): 44-46. Review of Eliot Borenstein, Men Without Women: Masculinity & Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1929 in Canadian Slavonic Papers 43 (December 2001): 569-70. Review of Anne E. Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32 (Autumn 2001): 310-11. Investigating Russian Taverns: A Methodological Essay, Social History of Alcohol Review 43 (Spring/Summer 2001): 30-32. Review of Melanie Ilic, Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy: From Protection to Equality in Russian History 27 (Fall 2000): 361-62. Review of Vladimir Brovkin, Russia After Lenin: Politics, Culture and Society in The Russian Review 59 (January 2000): 145-46. Review of Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii, Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917 in Slavonica (2000): 83-84. Student Evaluation of Internet Sites, NewsNet: The Newsletter of the AAASS, October 1999. Review of Jane McDermid and Anna Hillyar, Women and Work in Russia, 1880-1930: A Study in Continuity through Change in Slavonica, 5 (1999): 84-85. Review of Kenneth M. Straus, Factory and Community in Stalin s Russia: The Making of an Industrial Working Class for H-Net, 14 January 1999. Review of Stephen White, Russia Goes Dry: Alcohol, State and Society in Slavonic and East European Review, no. 4 (1997): 777-78.
Review of Christopher Read, From Tsar to Soviets in International Labor and Working-Class History 52 (Fall 1997): 169-71. Review of Reginald Zelnik, Law and Disorder on the Narova River in Canadian-American Slavic Studies 31 (Summer 1997): 193-94. Review of Vladimir Andrle, A Social History of Twentieth-Century Russia in Russian History 22 (Summer 1995): 227-8. "Canvas Shoes and Pink Suits: American Impressions of Prague," Women East-West, November 1995. "Everyday Life in Revolutionary Russia: Working-Class Drinking and Taverns in St. Petersburg, 1900-1929." PhD. dissertation. Directed by Diane P. Koenker, University of Illinois, 1993. Fellowships, Grants, and Awards EWU Academic Advising Association, Outstanding Faculty Advisor, Honorable Mention, 2012. Northwest Institute for Advanced Study Mini Grant, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2012. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to participate in the Summer Research Institute, "Visual Resources for Teaching and Research in Early East Slavic Cultures, New York Public Library, 2006. Northwest Institute for Advanced Study Faculty Research Grant, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004. Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe Associate, University of Illinois, Summer 2002. PTI PacificCorp Faculty Achievement Award, 1998. (EWU campus teaching award.) International Research and Exchanges Board Advanced Research Grant, 1995. Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Research Fellowship, 1994. University Fellowship, University of Illinois, Fall 1992. International Research and Exchanges Board Long-Term Research Grant, 1990-91. Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 1987-88, 1988-89, Summer 1990. Department of History Foreign Language Fellowship, University of Illinois, Summer 1990. University Fellowship, University of Illinois, 1985-86. Paper Presentations Presentation of Interview with Ted Clark, to Works-in-Progress Symposium, EWU History Department, 2014. Panel Chair for Prostitution in Time of War, Phi Alpha Theta, Pacific Northwest Regional Conference, April 2012. Panel Commentator for Russian Orthodoxy, Phi Alpha Theta, Pacific Northwest Regional Conference, April 2012.
Panel Commentator for Authoritative Discourses at War: Wounded Fighters, Disabled Veterans, and Fallen Heroes as Contested Soviet Subjects, National Convention of ASEEES, November 2011. Panel Commentator for The Impact of the World Wars on Soviet Veterans, National Convention of AAASS, November 2006. Depressed and Afraid: Psychiatric Casualties in Russia s Early Twentieth-Century Wars, National Convention of AAASS, November 2005. Chair and Panel Commentator for Community, Crime, Gender, and the Modern Drinking Establishment, American Historical Association, January 2004. Confronting the Masculine State: Russian Men through War and Revolution, presented to Masculinity in Russia: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Illinois Summer Research Lab on Russia and Eastern Europe, June 2002. Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century Russia, presented to the Canadian Association of Slavists, May 2001. Russian Masculinity through War and Revolution, presented to the Northwest Group on Russian History and Culture, April 2001. Panel Commentator for Law, Social Status, and Religion in Late Imperial Russia, Canadian Association of Slavists, May 2000. Panel Commentator for Domestic Acts, Public Consequences: Alcoholism and Violence in Russian and Soviet History and Literature, 1870-1998, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 1999. Back to the Future: Masculinity and Working-Class Drinking During NEP, presented to the National Convention of AAASS, November 1997. Panel Chair for Fathers in the Motherland: Soviet Masculinities in the Stalin and Khrushchev Eras, National Convention of AAASS, November 1997. Discussant for Roxanne Easley, "The Friends of Our Enemies (The Institution of Mirovoi posrednik in the Russian Emancipation of 1861) at the Northwest Group on Russian History and Culture, April 1997. There's Trouble Brothers: Working-Class Women and Alcohol in St. Petersburg, 1900-1929," presented to the Northwest Group on Russian History and Culture, December 1996. "Revolutionary Legitimacy: Message in a Bottle," presented to the National Convention of AAASS, November 1994. "Not for Drink Alone: The Russian Working Class and the Functions of the Tavern, St. Petersburg, 1900-1914" presented to the Midwestern Conference of AAASS, May 1993. "Obstacles to Productivity: Drunken Workers, Indulgent Administrators (The Case of Leningrad, 1925-1929)" presented to the National Convention of AAASS, November 1991. "Revolutionary Morality and Working-Class Values: The Role of Drink Among Leningrad Workers during NEP" presented to the Midwestern Conference of AAASS, March 1990.
Teaching Fields Russian and Soviet History Oral History Social History Gender History Social Theory and Historical Methods Western Civilization Academic and Public Service Library Affairs Council, 2014- Graduate Committee, EWU History Department, 2014- Coordinator, History Faculty Works-in-Progress Symposium, 2014- Public presentation, No Cinderella Story: Remembering Benderella, aka Ben S. Rae, for EWU Women s and Gender Studies, and the Pride Center, 2014. Public presentation, panelist for Who is Afraid of the Fall of Ukraine? for EWU Phi Alpha Theta teach-in on Ukraine, 2014. Radio interview on KYRS s OUTSpoken, regarding Spokane s Pride: An LGBT Oral History, 2014. Volunteer, OutSpokane, 2013, 2014. Department Personnel Committee, Chair for promotions to full professor, 2013-14. Undergraduate Committee Chair, EWU History Department, 2008-14. Social Studies Education Committee, EWU History Department, 2007-14. History Undergraduate Advisor, EWU History Department, 2006-14. College Personnel Committee, EWU College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011-14. (Chair for Associate in 2011-12.) EWU Pride Center Ally/Volunteer, 2011-13. Oral History Workshops (Part I, Learning the Ropes; Part II, Guided Practice), presented at the Washington State Archives: Eastern Region/Digital Archives, Fall 2013. Volunteer/Consultant, Neighborhoods Matter, 2013. Public Presentation, Switch Hitting: On Academic and Oral History, presented to EWU Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, 2013. Academic Computing Council, EWU Faculty Organization, 2003-11. Practicum in Community Involvement Mentor, for Lewis and Clark High School Students, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2012. Volunteer, Volunteers of America, 2011. Manuscript Referee, Slavica Publishers (Wildman Series), 2011. Manuscript Referee, Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2011. Manuscript Referee, Russian Journal of Communication, 2007, 2011. Manuscript Referee, International Review of Social History, 2009. Undergraduate Committee, EWU History Department, 2005-08. Introduction to Vladimir Khotinenko s Muslim, for 2 nd Annual Central Eurasian Regional Film, Music, and Speaker Series, EWU, 2008. (Last minute cancellation by series
organizers, due to misplaced film.) Coordinator for What cha Gonna Do With a History Degree? Interactive Workshops with History Faculty, EWU History Department, 2007. Public presentation, Getting a PhD in History, for Phi Alpha Theta, EWU, 2004, 2006. Manuscript Referee, The Russian Review, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006. Latin American Historian Search Committee Chair, EWU History Department, 2005-06. College Personnel Committee, EWU College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2000-06; Chair of Committee for promotions to Associate Professor, 2002-03. Manuscript Referee, Slavic Review, 2000, 2005. Public presentation for Contention and Change in Eastern Europe, EWU, Fall 2005. Personnel Committee Chair, EWU History Department, 2002-05. FIPSE Methods Committee, EWU College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2000-04. Awards Committee, EWU History Department, 2003. Faculty Planning and Advisory Council, EWU Faculty Organization, 2002-03. Future Needs Committee, EWU History Department, 2002-03. Conference Organizer, Masculinity in Russia: An Interdisciplinary Conference, held in conjunction with the Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe, University of Illinois, June 2002. Co-organized with Choi Chatterjee, California State University, Los Angeles. Department Chair, EWU History Department, 2001-02. American History Search Committee, EWU History Department, 2000-01 Faculty Senate, EWU Faculty Organization, 1998-2001. Grant Writing Committee, EWU College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2001. Personnel Committee, EWU History Department, 1998-2001. Selection Committee, Northwest Institute for Advanced Study, Faculty Research Grants, 1997, 1998, 2000. Judge for Spokane Scholars' Foundation social science competition, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999. Manuscript Referee, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1999. History Faculty Scholarship Committee, EWU History Department, 1997-1999. College Program Committee, EWU College of Letters and Social Sciences, 1996-98. Senate Select Committee on Program Review, EWU Faculty Organization, 1998. Public Reading of works by Vladimir Voinovich, Reader s Colloquium, EWU Department of English, May 1998. Coordinator for public lecture by Dr. Susan Costanzo of WWU, The End of Censorship? Art and Artists in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia, EWU, March 1998. Chair, Course and Program Approval Committee (Graduate Affairs Council), EWU Faculty Organization, 1997-98. Selection Committee, International Research and Exchanges Board Short-Term Travel Grant, June 1996-June 1998. Graduate Affairs Council, EWU Faculty Organization, 1995-98.
International Faculty Working Group, EWU College of Letters and Social Sciences, 1997. Public lecture on "Recent Trends in Russia and Eastern Europe," for International Affairs Club, EWU, May 1996. Graduate Committee, EWU History Department, 1995-96. Public lecture on "Gender, Drinking, and the Russian Revolution of 1917," for the Women's Studies Center, EWU, January 1995. Writing Committee, EWU Faculty Organization, 1994-95. Membership in Professional Organizations Oral History Association.