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- Legacy of Stalinism in Modern Russia: Historical Trauma, Memory and Forgetting
- This poster presentation discusses research on a transformative instructional initiative on globalizing curriculum. The project involved students learning about the legacy of Stalinism in modern Russia and connecting students to their virtual peers in Russia via the internet.
- Food Habits and Racial Thinking
- This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on The Food We Eat. In this presentation, the author discusses race and food habits.
- History 4263: Palestinian History
- Poster for the 2012 University Forum on Teaching & Learning. This poster discusses a project for a UNT history course, History 4263, on Palestinian history. In the course, students explore historical foundations and interpretations of modern Palestinian history.
- Mock Trial on Stalin and Stalinism
- This poster describes an experiential learning activity for the UNT course History 5040, Historiography of Stalinism. The goal is to apply critical reasoning to Stalin's politics in a courtroom environment.
- Topic Modeling on Historical Newspapers
- Paper for the 2011 ACL Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities. This paper discusses topic modeling on historical newspaper.
- Mapping Texts: Combining Text-Mining and Geo-Visualization To Unlock The Research Potential of Historical Newspapers
- Paper on mapping texts and combining text-mining and geo-visualization to unlock the research potential of historical newspapers.
- [Review] Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands
- This article reviews the book "Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands," edited by Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia L. Hilton.
- Крестьянский Союз в 1920-е годы и формирование крестьянской идентичности: модернизационный дискурс: The Peasant Union in the 1920s. The Formation of a Peasant Identity: Modernizing Discourse
- Book chapter discussing the Peasant Union in the 1920s, the formation of a peasant identity, and modernizing discourse.
- The History Engine: Doing History with Digital Tools
- Article on the History Engine Project, an online archive consisting of thousands of narratives written and contributed by undergraduates.
- Image of the Future in Russian Communism: Narratives of the Collective Representations in the 1920s in the USSR
- This article discusses the image of the future in Russian communism.
- Unions of Slavery: Slavery, Politics, and Secession in the Valley of Virginia
- Book chapter discussing research on the issues involved in the secession of Virginia around the Civil War, including slavery and politics.
- The Myth of the Besieged Fortress: Soviet Mass Perception in the 1920s - 1930s
- This work discusses Soviet mass perception from the 1920s to the 1930s. This work was supported by the Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Support Foundation, grant No. 805/1998, and by the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. The work has also greatly benefitted from the discussion at the workshops held by the Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project at CREES, University of Toronto.
- The Public Perception of the Cult of Lenin Based on Archival Materials
- This book presents a study of collective representations in Soviet Russia concentrates on perceptions of Lenin's image from a socio-anthropological, rather than political, view. In addition to Communist Party information, official documents, memoirs and folklore, newly opened secret reports of the Soviet political police are used for the first time. The book analyzes the development of the cult from Lenin's lifetime up to the process of "de-Leninization" in the 1990s. Much of the research concerns the perception of Lenin's death and the decision to embalm his body, the campaign called "the Lenin enrollment", renaming of Petrograd and organization of "Lenin Corners". The book also presents new material devoted to Lenin museums, along with archive documents and never-published photographs.