Recent Ohio State University Ph.D.s in Russian, East European, and Eurasian History

David Ruffley, “Children of Victory: Conformity and Dissent among Soviet Specialists in the Brezhnev Era” (Ph.D., 2000).  Formerly Assistant Professor of History and Deputy Director of International Program Plans and Development at the United States Air Force Academy.  Publications include Children of Victory: Young Specialists and the Evolution of Soviet Society (Praeger Publishers, 2003).

Tricia Starks, “Educating Mother Russia: Social Hygiene and Gender in Moscow during the 1920s” (Ph.D., 2000).  Currently Associate Professor of History at the University of Arkansas.  Fellowships include a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Fellowship, a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, and a Kennan Institute Fellowship.  Publications include The Body Soviet: Hygiene, Propaganda, and the Revolutionary State (University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming).

Jennifer Anderson, “Gender Role Construction, Morality and Social Norms in Early Modern Russia” (Ph.D., 2001).  Currently Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Student Academic Services, The Ohio State University.

William Risch, “Ukraine’s Window to the West: Identity and Cultural Nonconformity in L’viv, 1953-1975” (Ph.D., 2001).  Currently Assistant Professor of History at Georgia College and State University.  Fellowships include a Sklar Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Harvard University Ukrainian Center, a Kennan Institute Fellowship, and an IREX Fellowship.  Publications include “Soviet ‘Flower Children’: Hippies and the Youth Counter-Culture in 1970s L’viv,” Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 40 (2005).

Aaron Retish, “Peasant Identities in Russia’s Turmoil: Status, Gender, and Ethnicity in Viatka Province, 1914-1921” (Ph.D., 2003).  Currently Assistant Professor of History at Wayne State University.  Fellowships include a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and an SSRC Dissertation Writing Fellowship.  Publications include Russia’s Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity, and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1914-1922 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and “Creating Peasant Citizens: Rituals of Power, Rituals of Citizenship in Viatka Province, February 1917,” Revolutionary Russia (June 2003).

Matthew Romaniello, “Absolutism and Empire: Governance along the Early Modern Russian Frontier” (Ph.D., 2003).  Currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of Hawaii. Fellowships include a Western Civilization Post-Doctoral Fellowship, George Mason University.  Publications include "Controlling the Frontier: Monasteries and Infrastructure in the Volga Region, 1552-1682," Central Asian Survey, vol. 19 (2000).

Victoria Clement, “Rewriting the Turkmen Nation: Language, Learning, and Power in Central Asia, 1904-2004” (Ph.D., 2005).  Currently Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University.  Fellowships include a Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, University of llinois, and an IREX fellowship.