November 20, 2008

Elizabeth A. Wood

History Faculty

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bldg. E51-282

Cambridge, MA 02139

tel: (617) 253-3255

fax: (617) 253-9406

elizwood@mit.edu

Current Position

2006- Professor, History Faculty, M.I.T.

2002- Director, M.I.T. Program in Women’s Studies

1998-2006 Associate Professor (with tenure)

1996-1998 Associate Professor (without tenure)

1991-1996 Assistant Professor

1990-1991 Instructor with expectation of promotion to Assistant Professor

Education

Ph.D. The University of Michigan, Russian and Soviet History, 1991

A.B. Harvard-Radcliffe College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1980

Fellowships and Awards

M.I.T. nomination, New Directions Fellowship of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2002)

National Research Competition, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research

(2000-2002)

Provost Research Grants, M.I.T. (1991, 1998)

International Research and Exchanges Board Fellowship (1996)

Levitan Prize (research grant), M.I.T. (1996)

Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Research Fellowship (1993)

International Research and Exchanges Board Fellowship (1993)

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend (1992)

American Association of University Women Educational Foundation American Fellowship

(1989-90)

Harvard University, Russian Research Center, Postdoctoral Fellowship (1989-90) (declined)

Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (1988-89)

Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan (1987-88)

Social Science Research Council Dissertation Fellowship (1987-88)

International Research and Exchanges Board Fellowship (1986-87)

Social Science Research Council Graduate Fellowship (1984-85)

Humanities & Slosson Fellowships, University of Michigan (1983-85)

Publications

“Who Leads Russia?” Audit of the Conventional Wisdom, Center for International Studies, MIT June 2008.

Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia (Cornell University Press, 2005) (301 pp.)

“The Trial of Lenin: Legitimating the Revolution through Political Theater, 1920-1923,” The Russian Review 61, 2 (April 2002), pp. 235-48

“The Trial of the New Woman: Citizens-in-Training in the New Soviet Republic,” Gender & History 13, 3 (November 2001), pp. 524-45

The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Indiana University Press, 1997) (318 pp.)

“Class and Gender at Loggerheads in the Early Soviet State: Who Should Organize the Female Proletariat and How?" in Laura L. Frader and Sonya O. Rose, eds., Gender and Class in Modern Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996), pp. 294-310

“Prostitution Unbound: Representations of Political and Sexual Anxieties in Post-Revolutionary Russia" in Jane Costlow, Stephanie Sandler, and Judith Vowles, eds., Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture (Stanford University Press, 1993), pp. 124-35

“The Trial of a Prostitute: Theater and Political Ritual in Post-Revolutionary Russia, 1920-1928," Cultural Studies Working Papers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1992

Encyclopedia articles

“Zhenotdel, the Women’s Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union,” in Bonnie G. Smith, ed., Encyclopedia of Women in World History (Oxford University Press, forthcoming [2007])

“Inessa Armand,” “Nadezhda Krupskaya,” and “Zhenotdel” in James R. Millar, ed., Encyclopedia of Russian History (MacMillan, 2003), v.1, pp. 75-76; v.2, pp. 791-792; v.4, pp. 1726-1728

Book Reviews

Frederick C. Corney, Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russian Review 64, 4 (October 2005)

Victoria E. Bonnell, Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin, in The American Historical Review 103, 5 (December 1998)

Barbara Alpern Engel and Anastasia Posadskaya-Vanderbeck, eds., A Revolution of Their Own: Voices of Women in Soviet History, in Slavic Review, 57, 4 (Winter 1998)

Barbara Evans Clements, Barbara Alpern Engel, and Christine Worobec, eds., Russia's Women, in The Women's Review of Books (April 1992)

Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Feminists Despite Themselves: Women in Ukrainian Community Life, 1884-1939 in Slavic Review 49, 4 (Winter 1990)

Work in Progress

“Power, Performance and Centralization in Putin’s Russia, 1999-Present”: analyzes political culture and performance in Russia today in comparison to both Tsarist and Soviet practices

“Negotiating Passage Through the Cold War: Gender and Nation in Soviet-Indian Relations, 1947-1964": examines the evolving relations between the Soviet Union and India in the early Cold War years by focusing on Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister and India’s first ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Conference Papers

“Power, Performance, and Centralization in Putin’s Russia, 1999-the Present” (“State and Society in Transition,” Kennan Institute, Durham, UK, January 2006)

“The Historic Roots of Putin’s Drive Toward Centralization” (Invited Speaker, Burchard Scholars’ Dinner, M.I.T., October 2004; also conference “State and Society in Transition,” Moscow, April 2005)

“Trials of Literature in Revolutionary Russia, 1913-1928" (Literary Works in Progress Seminar, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University, February 2003)

“Agitation Trials and Show Trials: One and the Same or Different Animals” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies [AAASS], November 2002)

“The Trial of Lenin: Legitimating the Revolution through Political Theater, 1920-1923" (The Paul Beik Annual Lecture in History at Swarthmore College, January 28, 2002)

“Shaming Boys Who Smoke Cigarettes: Agitation Trials in the Late 1920s” (AAASS, November 2001)

“Lenin on Trial: Scenarios of Power, Political Justice, and Agitation Trials in Revolutionary Russia” (Historians’ Seminar, Davis Center, December 1999)

“The Construction of Gender in Early Stalinism” (keynote, address, “Chancen und Perspektiven einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Orientierung fur die Osteuropa-Wissenschaften,” Zurich, Switzerland, September 1999)

“The Trial of Lenin in April 1920: A New Form of Political Conversation” (“Science and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union: A Colloquium in Honor of Loren Graham,” April 1999)

“Agitation Trials and Political Discourse: Fiction and Reality in Early Soviet Russia” (AAASS, September 1998)

“The Trial of the Red Army: Education, Entertainment, and Discipline in the Russian Civil War” (Historians' Seminar, Davis Center, March 1997)

“Syphilization or Civilization: The Trial of the Old Way of Life in Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1930” (History Department, Brandeis University, January 1997 and History-Literature Workshop, M.I.T., September 1997)

Organizer, “Workshop on New Approaches to Russian and Soviet History” (M.I.T., March 1996)

“Through the Looking Glass: Maximizing and Minimizing Gender Differences in Early Soviet Russia” (Conference on Social Identities in the USSR, New York Univ., March 1995)

“Paradoxes of Gender: Women's Roles in the Russian Civil War” (Historians' Seminar, Davis Center, November 1994)

“Too Hot to Handle: The Discipline of Gender in Early Soviet Russia” (Roundtable Presentation, AAASS, November 1994)

“The Trial of a Prostitute: Educational Theater in NEP Russia, 1920-1930” (AAASS, November 1993)

“The Trial of a Prostitute: Theater and Political Ritual in Post-Revolutionary Russia, 1920-1928” (conference, "Pomp and Circumstance: Political Uses of Public Culture," M.I.T., May 1992; "Literature and Power," Russian Summer School, Norwich University, June 1992)

“Tales About New People: Contradictions in Bolshevik Approaches to the 'Woman Question'” (Wheaton College, March 1992)

“The Woman Question in Revolutionary Russia: The Russian Communist Party in the 1920s” (Conference, "Engendering China: Women, Culture and the State," M.I.T., Feb. 1992)

“The Prostitution Debates in Soviet Russia, 1920-1926,” (Social Science History Association, New Orleans, November 1991)

“Class, Gender and Politics in the Organizing of Women Workers in the 1920s” (Historians' Seminar, Davis Center, May 1991)

“Putting the Woman Question to Work: Trade-Unionism and Party in Soviet Russia” (Women's History Week, Harvard University, March 1991)

“Ideology, Power and Female Labor in Bolshevik Russia, 1921-1930: The Problem of 'Feminism from Above'” (Conference, "The Making of the Soviet Working Class," Michigan State University, November 1990)

“Organizing Women Workers: The Clash of Party and Trade Union Interests, 1920-1928” (AAASS, November 1990)

“The Three Faces of Masha: The Baba, the Mother, and the Prostitute in Bolshevik Policy and Practice, 1918-1928” (American Historical Association, December 1989)

“'Like Fish Hitting Up Against the Ice': Urban Women Respond to the Soviet New Economic Policy” (AAASS, November 1989)

“Prostitution Unbound: Representations of Political and Sexual Anxieties in Post-Revolutionary Russia” (Symposium, "Bodies, Stories and Images: Representations of Sexuality in Russian Culture," Amherst College, September 1989)

“The Broken Contract? The New Economic Policy and Working Women, 1921-1924” (Mt. Holyoke College, February 1989)

“Behind the Lines of Revolution: The Gender Contract of the Civil War Years in Soviet Russia, 1918-1921” (Mt. Holyoke College, November 1988)

Foreign Languages

Russian, French: near-native fluency

Spanish, Italian, German, Serbo-Croatian, and Hebrew:

some reading and speaking ability

Professional Responsibilities and Memberships

Director, Women’s Studies, M.I.T. (Jan. 2002-present)

Steering Committee, Women's Studies, M.I.T. (1990-92, 1993-1996; 1998-)

Associate, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University (1993-present )

Associate, Center for International Studies, M.I.T. (1990- present)

Co-Chair, Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies (1998-2000); Board representative (1994-1996); Curriculum Committee member (2001-2002)

Member, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) and American Historical Association (AHA)

Service to the Profession

Tucker/Cohen prize for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in political science and political history of the Soviet Union, AAASS (2006)

W. Bruce Lincoln Prize Committee for the best first book manuscript published in 2002 or 2003, AAASS (2004)

Editorial board, Gender and History (2002-present )

Prize Committee for best article, Journal of Modern History (1997-1998)

Review of manuscripts for Russian Review, Slavic Review, Gender and History, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, Palgrave Press, Thompson Press