American historian who argued the USSR continued the imperial ethnographic practices of the tsarist state
Her continuity thesis, that tsarist-era ethnographers practically designed the Bolshevik state's territorial divisions and population categories, reshaped the landscape of post-Soviet nationality studies.
An American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In her 2005 book Empire of Nations, she advanced a continuity thesis: former imperial ethnographers provided the Bolsheviks with knowledge that shaped the USSR's territorial borders and nationality policies, meaning the Soviet state did not break with imperial ethnographic practices but inherited them. The book won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize and stands alongside Terry Martin's The Affirmative Action Empire, which stresses the novelty of Soviet nationality policy, as one of the two poles of post-1991 scholarship on Soviet nations.
Career Timeline
- 1998Ph.D. in History, Princeton University
- 1998–현재Professor of History, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 2005Empire of Nations published (Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, Wayne S. Vucinich Prize)
- 2020Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg published (ASIL Certificate of Merit)