Modern Russia, Southeastern Europe, East Central Europe
Masculinity and Gender History
Martial Arts Studies
Military History
Ph.D., Russian History, University of Illinois, 2013
M.A., History, University of Toronto, 2004
B.A., History, University of Toronto, 2003
Elementary Russian I & II (RUS 1301 & 1302)
Introduction to Slavic Studies I & II (SEES 2380 & 2381)
Asian Studies (AST 2380)
Book Chapters
“Forces spirituelles et physiques sans précédent. Réappropriation du sambo par l’Église orthodoxe en Russie” [ “Unprecedented Spiritual and Physical Forces”: Reclaiming Sambo for Orthodoxy in Russia]”. In L’univers social des arts martiaux [The social universe of martial arts]. Ed. Olivier Bernard. (Québec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2022) [forthcoming].
Reconnoitering Masculine Subjectivities among Soldiers & Officers on Russia’s Fronts, 1914-1917.” In Russian Women and Gender in War and Revolution, 1914-1922. Melissa K. Stockdale and Adele Lindenmeyr, eds. (Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2022) [forthcoming].
“Mourning Deaths and Constructing Afterlives in the Red Army at War.” In Death & Afterlife. Ed. Candi K. Cann. (New York/London: Routledge, 2018): 136-152.
“Sensing Danger: The Red Army during the Second World War.” In Russian History through the Senses: From 1700 to the Present. Matthew P. Romaniello and Tricia Starks, eds. (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016): 219-240.