Faculty   Elizabeth A. Wood Professor of History Elizabeth Wood is the author of Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia (Cornell University Press, 2005) and From Baba to Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Indiana University Press, 1997). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1991 in the field of Soviet History. She has also published articles on prostitution, trade union organizing of women, and revolutionary theater trials. She has been Program Chair for the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, AAASS, she serves on the Board of Directors of the National Council Of Eurasian and East European Research . She is currently working on what she is calling "The Performance of Power" under Putin in Russia today. In spring 2009 she received a grant from the Alumni Class Funds, "Bringing Russian and Soviet History into the Digital Age." Her subjects include: 21H.001: How to Stage a Revolution; 21H.245J/17.571J "Soviet Politics and Society"; 21H.244 "Imperial and Revolutionary Russia, 1800-1917"; 17.006J/WGS.301J/24.237J "Feminist Political Thought"; 21H.390 "Seminar in Historical Methods." She is coordinator of Russian Studies. She welcomes questions and discussion in any area of Russian Studies, historical studies, Women and Gender Studies, and the history of trials. She is the faculty sponsor of a UROP on studies of Vladimir Putin’s rule in Russia: http://web.mit.edu/history/www/undergrad/urop.html     77 Massachusetts Avenue Building E51-282 Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 253-3255 elizwood@mit.edu   MIT History Faculty Home Copyright 2000 © Massachusetts Institute of Technology Comments and questions to history-www@mit.edu