Curriculum vitae for Laurie Bernstein
Associate Professor of
History
Director of Women’s
Studies
Department of
History
Phone 856.225.2716
Fax 856.225.6602
http://crab.rutgers.edu/~lbernste
Academic Degrees:
Ph.D.
in History,
M.A.
in History,
B.A.
in History with Honors,
General Examination
Fields:
Late
Modern European History (emphasis on
Early
Modern European History
Dissertation Title:
“Sonia’s
Daughters: Prostitution and Society in
Committee:
Reginald Zelnik, Nicholas Riasanovsky, Ruth Rosen, Gail Lapidus
Current Project:
“Judging Domestic Violence in the
Late Soviet Period.” This study examines the function of gender norms in
the Russian and Soviet Supreme Courts’ adjudication of cases involving
wife-beating, rape, and spousal murder.
Books:
Co-author
with Robert E. Weinberg, The Russian Revolution, 1917-1939: Document
Collection (under contract for Oxford University Press).
Editor
and co-author of introductory essay for Mary M. Leder, My Life in Stalinist
Russia: An American Woman Looks Back (
Sonia’s
Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of
California Press, 1995).
Articles:
“Foster
Care and Adoption of Children in the Soviet Union,” The Supplement to the
Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History, ed. Bruce F.
Adams (
“Imperial
Russia,” Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work, ed. Melissa Hope
Ditmore (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006).
“Russia
and Adoption,” The Praeger Handbook of Adoption v. 2, eds. Kathy
Shepherd Stolley and Vern L. Bullough (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006), 527-531.
“Congress
for the Discussion of Measures against Syphilis in
Review
essay on Anne E. Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary
“Prostitution,”
in Encyclopedia of Russian History, v. 3, ed. James R. Millar (
“Brothelkeepers,
Pre-Revolutionary” and “Brothels, Pre-Revolutionary,” The Supplement to the
Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History v. 4, eds.
Edward J. Lazzerini and George N. Rhyne (
“Communist
Custodial Contests: Adoption Rulings in the
“Fostering
the Next Generation of Socialists: Patronirovanie in the
“All-Russian
Congress for the Struggle Against the Trade in Women,” and “The Russian Society
for the Protection of Women,” Encyclopedia of Russian Women’s Movements,
eds. Norma C. Noonan and Carol Nechemias (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001),
3-4, 58-61.
“Anti-Licensing Movement,” The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of
Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History v. 2, eds. Edward J. Lazzerini and
George N. Rhyne (Blacksburg, VA: Academic International Press, 1998).
“The
Evolution of Soviet Adoption Law,” Journal of Family History v. XXII,
no. 1 2 (April
1997): 204-226.
“‘A Necessary Institution in the Capitalist World’: Socialists and Workers
Consider Prostitution,” Russian History/Histoire Russe v. XXIII, nos.
1-4 (1996): 179-196.
“Yellow
Tickets and State-Licensed Brothels: The Tsarist Government and the Regulation
of Urban Prostitution,” Health and Society in Revolutionary
“Prostitution
in Imperial
Reviews:
Tricia Starks, The
Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State (Madison, WI:
University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), in Slavic
Review (forthcoming).
Jewish
Women in Eastern Europe. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume Eighteen (Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,
2005), eds. ChaeRan Freeze, Paula Hyman, and Antony Polonsky, in Canadian American
Slavic Studies/Revue Canadienne Américaine d’études Slaves v. 42,
nos. 1-2 (2008): 232-34.
Anna
Bek, The Life of a Russian Woman Doctor: A Siberian Memoir, 1869-1954 (
Roshanna
P. Sylvester, Tales of Old
Golfo
Alexopoulos, Stalin’s Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State,
1926-1936 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003), in International
Labor and Working-Class History no. 68 (Fall 2005): 139-141.
Patricia
Herlihy, The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka & Politics in Late Imperial
Dan
Healey, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary
Melanie
Iliĉ, Women Workers in the Soviet Interwar Economy: From Protection to
Equality (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), in Journal of Social
History v. 28, no. 1 (January 2003): 34-36.
Christine
D. Worobec, Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial
J.
Arch Getty and Oleg V. Naumov, The Road to Terror: Stalin and the
Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 (New Haven, CT and London:
Yale University Press, 1999), in International Labor and Working-Class
History v. 61 (Spring 2002): 205-207.
Evel
G. Economakis, From Peasant to Petersburger (New York: St. Martin’s
Press, 1998), in Journal of Social History v. XXV, no. 3 (October 2000):
398.
Kenneth
M. Straus, Factory and Community in Stalin’s Russia: The Making of an
Industrial Working Class (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press,
1997), in International Labor and Working-Class History v. 56 (Fall
1999): 162-164.
Eric
Naiman, Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), in Journal of Modern
History v. 71 (September 1999): 783-785.
Alan
M. Ball, And Now My Soul Is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet
John
Doyle Klier, Imperial
Cultures
in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia, eds. Stephen P. Frank and Mark D. Steinberg
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), in International Labor
and Working-Class History no. 49 (Spring 1996): 177-180.
Barbara
Alpern Engel, Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in
Joan
Neuberger, Hooliganism: Crime, Culture, and Power in
Reviewer for Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada (1995), National Endowment for the
Humanities Collaborative Research Fellowship (2006), Institute of International
Education under the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright-Hays Program (2007).
Referee
for Journal of Women’s History (1997), Slavic Review (1997,
1999), Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Canadienne des Slavistes (1996), Cambridge
University Press (1995), Indiana University Press (1995, 2002), Siberica
(2005), Bedford-St. Martin’s Press (2005), The McGraw-Hill Companies (2002,
2004, 2007), Longman Publishers (2007), and Oxford University Press (2007).
Translations:
Translations
and annotations of “Prostitutes’ Petition” and “On Abolishing State-Licensed
Brothels” by Ekaterina Gardner, in Russian Women: Experience and Expression,
1698-1917, An Anthology of Sources, eds. Robin M. Bisha, Jehanne M. Gheith,
Christine Holden, and William G. Wagner (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University
Press, 2002), pp. 138-140, 362-366.
Other publications:
Consultant for Henry Russell, Russia
(Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2008).
“Chef’s
Page: Ray’s Café and Tea House,
Report
in July 1996 to the National Council for Soviet and East European Research.
“Russia’s New Adoption Laws.”
Awards:
Rutgers University Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence
(2007)
Post-doctoral fellowships
and grants:
Rutgers
University Faculty Advancement and Institutional Re-Imagination (RU-FAIR)
mini-grant recipient. June – December 2009.
Faculty
fellow at the Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies and the
Women’s Studies Program at Rutgers University for the seminar, “Locations of
Gender: Central and Eastern Europe.” September 1996 through May 1997.
Full
year of support and travel from the International Research and Exchanges Board
(IREX) Individual Advanced Research Opportunity in
Full
year of support in the amount of $45,000 from the National Council for Soviet
and East European Research to complete research for project on dependent
children in Soviet Russia. July 1995 through June 1996.
Alternate
for a Woodrow Wilson Foundation fellowship at the Kennan Institute in
National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend ($4,750) with Travel for research
in
Rutgers
University Research Council grant for subvention of publication.
September 1993 through June 1994.
Joint
Committee on Soviet Studies (Social Science Research Council and American
Council of Learned Societies) post-doctoral fellowship for three summers and
one semester to complete manuscript on prostitution in imperial
International
Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) short-term fellowship for conducting
research in the Lenin Library,
Conferences:
November 2010 – Scheduled
to chair a panel on “Visual Images of Jews in Late Imperial and Early Soviet
Eras” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies.
March 2009 – Chaired a
panel on “Dostoevsky, Gender, and St. Petersburg: Literary Explorations” at the
annual meeting of the Southern Conference in Slavic Studies.
November 2008 – Discussant
for panel on “Victors of Victims: Women in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
Russia” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement
of Slavic Studies.
November 2008 – Panel
member for “Gender and Russian Studies” at the annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
December
2007 – Chaired a panel on “Antisemitism in Germany” at conference entitled
“Aspects of the Holocaust: History, Experiences, and Implications” held at Yad
Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel.
October
2006 – “Child Welfare in Russia” for a panel at the Fourth Annual Teach
Europe Conference at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.
January
2006 – Commented on a panel entitled “Sex Scandals at the Fin-de-Siècle:
Nation, Class, and Gender in the Late Habsburg Monarchy” at the annual meeting
of the American Historical Association.
April
2000 - Delivered a paper entitled “Patronirovanie in the
September
1998 - Chaired a panel entitled “From Estate to Communal Apartment: Domesticity
in Imperial and Soviet Russia” at the annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
November
1996 - Commented on a panel entitled “Bridge over Troubled Waters: Women’s
Organizing Amidst Transitions to Market Economics” at the annual meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
October
1996 - Delivered a paper entitled “From Public to Private: Adoption Rulings in
the
January
1996 - Delivered a paper entitled “Adoption Law in Soviet Russia” at a meeting
of the Delaware Valley Seminar on Russian History.
October
1995 - Commented on a panel entitled “Russian Women and Revolution: Gender and
Ethnicity, 1917-94” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies.
November
1994 - Chaired a panel entitled “Entertaining Women: Gendering Fun Across the
1917 Divide” at the annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies.
November
1993 - Delivered a paper entitled “‘A Necessary Institution in the Capitalist
World’: Socialists and Workers Consider Prostitution” at the annual meeting of
the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
November
1993 - Commented on a panel entitled “Crimes and Misdemeanors: Crime, Justice
and Culture in Imperial Russia” at the annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
June
1993 - Delivered a paper entitled “Living with Regulation” at the Delaware
Valley Seminar on Russian History.
November
1992 - Delivered a paper entitled “Physicians and the Politics of Venereal
Disease in Imperial Russia” to the annual meeting of the Social Science History
Association.
April
1991 - Chaired a panel on Soviet Social Policy in the Interwar Years at the
annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic branch of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies.
October
1990 - Commented on a paper by Professor Adele Lindenmeyr,
July
1990 - Commented on a panel entitled “Battered Wives and Bad Girls Talk Back:
Women Face the Courts” at the Eighth Annual Berkshire Conference on the History
of Women.
August
1988 - Contributed a paper to the University of Akron/Kent State University
conference on women in the history of the Russian Empire entitled “Abolishing
the Yellow Ticket: The Movement Against the Regulation of Prostitution in
Imperial Russia.”
November
1987 - Delivered a paper entitled “Visions of Salvation: Russian Society's
Attempts to Reform Fallen Women” at the annual conference of the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
May
1986 - Delivered a paper entitled “Yellow Tickets and State Brothels: Russia's
System of Regulation of Prostitution” at the University of Toronto Conference
on the History of Russian and Soviet Public Health.
March
1985 - Delivered a paper entitled “Sex and Revolution in Russia, 1900-1910” at
the University of California, Berkeley conference in honor of Michel Foucault.
Public Lectures:
“Socialism
or Socialization: Children and State Policy in the Early Soviet Union”
Lees
Graduate History Seminar at Rutgers University in Camden – October 20, 2006
“Yellow
Tickets: Regulating Prostitution in Imperial
Garden
State Rotary Club of Cherry Hill – February 10, 2006
“The Bolshevized City: Vertov’s Man
with a Movie Camera”
Graduate Liberal Studies Program on “Urbanites: Tales of the City”
“Feminism and Socialism”
Philosophy Society, Rutgers University in Camden – April 13, 2005
“Transforming
Childhood in Revolutionary
Guest
lecture for “Introduction to Childhood and Childhood Studies”
Rutgers University in Camden – 2002, 2003, 2004
“An
American Jew in Stalinist
Book
signing and lecture at the “
Barnes
& Noble bookstore in
“The
Gendered Citizen”
Philosophy
Society, Rutgers University in Camden – November 13, 2002
“An
American Jew in Stalinist Russia: Mary Leder’s Journey”
Book
signing and lecture sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program of Drexel
University
“Gender
and History”
Barnes
& Noble,
“Agnieszka
Holland and Europa, Europa”
Jewish
Community Center,
“Russian
Culture”
World
Week at Rutgers University in Camden - April 6, 1999
“Why
Women’s History Matters”
Panelist
at Rutgers University in Camden - March 31, 1999
“The
Gendered Citizen”
Conference
on Women and Politics at Rutgers University in Camden – March 6, 1998
“Making
the Time/Finding the Time”
Colloquium
sponsored by the Women’s Center at Rutgers University in Camden – November 10,
1997
“Imagining
Revolution”
“Privatizing
State Children: The Transformation of Soviet Adoption Law”
“Prostitution
in Imperial
For
class entitled “The Fallen Woman in Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature” at
“The
Evolution of Soviet Adoption Law”
Department
of History and Center for Slavic and East European Studies,
“Killing Stalin: De-Stalinization from 1956 to
1990”
Faculty
seminar at Rutgers University in Camden – March 27, 1996
“The
Soviet Experience”
Short
course on Soviet history at Cherry Hill Jewish Community Center, March 13, 20,
& 27, 1996
Lectures
on Russian History
Member
of Panel on “
Rutgers
University in Camden – March 31, 1993
“Women’s
Issues in Contemporary Russia”
Wallingford-Swarthmore
Community Classes,
“‘Dens
of Depravity’: Licensing Brothels in Imperial Russia”
Academic
Women at
Minicourse
on the Russian Revolution of 1905
Drew
University,
Member
of Panel for Multicultural Awareness Day
Drew
University,
“The
Woman Question Revisited”
“Sex
and the Single Socialist”
Honors
Banquet at
“Problems
of Soviet Women”
Jewish
Community Centers of Greater
“The
Hammer and the Pickle: Women and the Russian Revolution”
Speaker
to Class of 1942
Speaker
for International Studies Program
“Bad
Girls in the
Vassar
College Women’s Studies “First Fridays,”
Member
of Panel on Nuclear Deterrence
“Saving
‘Fallen Women’: The Rehabilitation of Prostitutes in
Speaker,
American Association of University Women
Speaker,
American Association of University Women
San
Bruno, California chapter, February 23, 1985
Sacramento,
California chapter, October 26, 1984
Academic Employment:
Rutgers
University in Camden
Associate
Professor 1997-present
Assistant
Professor 1992-1997
Assistant
Professor 1991-92
Visiting
Assistant Professor 1989-90
Lecturer,
Fall semester 1988
Assistant
Professor 1987-89
Acting
Instructor 1987
Research
Assistant 1986
Adjunct
Faculty 1986
Teaching
Assistant 1981-86
Reader
1981-82
Teaching
Assistant 1980
Student
Instructor 1976-78
Courses taught:
Russian
History from 1613 to the 1905 Revolution
Russian
and Soviet History from the 1905 Revolution
Russia
under the Tsars
Revolutionary
Culture and Transformation in the USSR
Revolutionary
and Communist Russia
Introduction
to Russian and Soviet Society
Senior Seminar on Russian Revolutionary
Society
Problems
in Soviet History
“A
Tale of Two Cities”:
Remembering
Red Russia: Memoirs and Soviet History (Honors College)
Mavens,
Moguls, and Movie Stars: Jews On and Off Screen (Honors College)
Soviet
Women
Women
and Revolution in
Studies
of the Twentieth Century: Revolutionary Transformation in
Perspectives
on History (historiography)
Women
in European History
Women,
Gender, and Modern European History (graduate level)
Modern
Jewish History
Socialism
and Feminism in
Film
and Modern European History
Imagining
Russian and Soviet History on Film
Late
Modern European History, 1789-1945
Late
Modern European History, 1815-1945
Intellectual
Heritage
Western
Civilization II
Introduction
to Women’s Studies
Senior
Seminar in Women’s Studies
Colloquium
on Gender and Sexuality (graduate level)
Graduate fellowships:
Patrick
Fellowship from
Andrew
W. Mellon dissertation fellowship. September 1985 through January 1986.
American
Association of University Women Education fellowship Program. September
1984 through June 1985.
International
Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) fellowship for conducting doctoral research
in the
Sidney
Heller Fellowship from
Patrick
Fellowship from
Patrick
Fellowship from
Non-academic employment:
Projects
Director for non-profit agency in
Affirmative
Action Assistant for
Professional organizations:
Program committee, American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (2008)
Conference committee, Association for
Women in Slavic Studies (2004-05)
President-Elect,
Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference (2001-02)
Executive
Board, Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference (2000-02)
Member
of American Historical Association
Member
of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Member
of Association for Women in Slavic Studies
Member
of Delaware Valley Seminar on Russian History
Service to Rutgers
University in Camden:
Director,
Women’s Studies (2001-ongoing)
University
harassment advisor (2003-ongoing)
Elected
member of Scholastic Standing Committee (2007-2010)
Marshal,
Camden College of Arts and Sciences graduation ceremonies (2006, 2007, 2008,
2009)
Secretary,
Faculty Senate (2001-02, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2008-09, 2009-10)
Elected
member of FASIP Committee for History Department (1998-2009)
Member, search committee for position in
Colonial America (2005)
Acting
Chair, Department of History (Spring 2003)
Member,
Committee on Bildner Fellowships (Spring 2003)
Intercultural
Steering Committee (2002-ongoing)
Member,
Diversity Steering Committee (2003)
Member,
search committee for position in Colonial America (2003)
Member,
President’s Faculty Advisory Committee (2001-2002)
Member,
Honors College Advisory Board (2001-ongoing)
Member,
search committee for position in Colonial America (2000)
Chair,
search committee for position in Early Modern History (1998)
Referee,
1998
Search
Committee for Athletic Director (1998)
Referee,
1997
Committee
on Rules and Procedures (1997-2000)
Ad
Hoc Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics (1996-97)
Faculty
Senator (2002-03; 1992-95)