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Elizabeth Wood

Room
E51-282 / 14E-38844
Phone
617-253-3255
Email
elizwood@mit.edu
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Professor Wood received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College in Russian History and Literature in 1980, and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Russian and Soviet History in 1991.

Her research interests are primarily focused on the 1920s in Soviet Russia with attention to women's history, cultural history and political history. In 1996 she received the Levitan Prize for her research on political trials performed as plays in workers' and student clubs from 1920-1933. Her first book, The Baba and the Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (1997) was published by Indiana University Press. Her current book manuscript is entitled "Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Revolutionary Russia, 1920-1933" (forthcoming). Currently, Professor Wood is the Director of Women's Studies at MIT.