Curriculum vitae for Laurie Bernstein

Curriculum vitae for Laurie Bernstein

Associate Professor of History

Director of Women’s Studies

Department of History

429 Cooper Street

Rutgers University

Camden, NJ 08102

Office phone 856 225-2716

lbernste@camden.rutgers.edu

http://crab.rutgers.edu/~lbernste

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D. in History, University of California, Berkeley - 1987

M.A. in History, University of California, Berkeley - 1980

B.A. in History with Honors, Sonoma State University - 1976

General Examination Fields:

Late Modern European History (emphasis on Russia)

Early Modern European History

Dissertation Title:

“Sonia’s Daughters: Prostitution and Society in Russia” (1987)

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 Weinberg, Revolutionary Russia: A History in Documents (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Children of the Motherland: Orphans in Soviet Russia (Unpublished manuscript, 2005).

Editor and co-author of introductory essay for Mary M. Leder, My Life in Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001).

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 (Blacksburg, VA: Academic International Press, forthcoming volume).

“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 Russia,” and “Congress for the Struggle Against the Trade in Women, All-Russian,” The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History v. 6, ed. Bruce Adams, Edward J. Lazzerini, and George N. Rhyne (Blacksburg, VA: Academic International Press, 2005), 221-226.

“Prostitution,” in Encyclopedia of Russian History, v. 3, ed. James R. Millar (New York, NY: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004), 1237-1238.

Review essay on Anne E. Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000) and Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 (New York: Routledge Falmer, 2001), History of Education Quarterly v. 43, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 106-111.

“Brothelkeepers, Pre-Revolutionary” and “Brothels, Pre-Revolutionary,” The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History v. 4, ed. Edward J. Lazzerini and George N. Rhyne (Blacksburg, VA: Academic International Press, 2003), 238-244.

“Communist Custodial Contests: Adoption Rulings in the USSR after the Second World War” Journal of Social History v. 34, no. 4 (Summer 2001): 843-861.

“Fostering the Next Generation of Socialists: Patronirovanie in the Fledgling Soviet State,” Journal of Family History v. XXVI, no. 1 (January 2001): 66-89.

“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, ed. 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, ed. 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. 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 Russia, ed. Susan Gross Solomon and John F. Hutchinson (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990), 45-65.

“Prostitution in Imperial Russia,” The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, Volume 52, ed. Joseph L. Wieczynski (Blacksburg, VA: Academic International Press, 1990), 8-15.

Reviews:

Barbara Engel, Breaking the Ties that Bound: The Politics of Marital Status in Late Imperial Russia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011) in Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Canadienne des Slavistes (forthcoming).

Soviet Medicine: Culture, Practice, and Science, ed. Frances L Bernstein, Christopher Burton, and Dan Healey (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010) in Slavic Review (forthcoming).

Tamara Petkevich, Memoir of a Gulag Actress (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010) in Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Canadienne des Slavistes (forthcoming).

Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Equality & Revolution: Women’s Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010) in Journal of Social History (Winter 2011).

Joseph Bradley, Voluntary Associations in Tsarist Russia: Science, Patriotism, and Civil Society (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009) in Russian Journal of Communication (forthcoming).

Boris B. Gorshkov, Russia’s Factory Children: State, Society, and Law, 1800-1917 (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009) in Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (forthcoming).

Sharon A. Kowalsky, Deviant Women: Female Crime and Criminology in Revolutionary Russia, 1880-1930 (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2009), in Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Canadienne des Slavistes (October-December 2010).

Frank Bruni, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater (New York: Penguin Press, 2009), in Gastronomica (Fall 2010): 92-93.

Otto Boehle, Erotic Nihilism in Late Imperial Russia: The Case of Mikhail Artsybashev's Sanin (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009), in Slavic Review v. 69, no. 4 (Winter 2010): 1028-1029.

Tricia Starks, The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), in Slavic Review (Winter 2009): 1004-1005.

Jewish Women in Eastern Europe. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, Volume Eighteen (Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2005), ed. 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 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2004), in Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Canadienne des Slavistes v. 48, nos. 3-4 (September-December 2006): 195-97.

Roshanna P. Sylvester, Tales of Old Odessa: Crime and Civility in a City of Thieves (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005), in Slavic Review v. 65, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 600-601.

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 Russia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), in Slavic Review v. 62, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 181-182.

Dan Healey, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001), in The American Historical Review v. 108, no. 1 (February 2003): 293-294.

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 Russia (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2001), in The American Historical Review v. 107, no. 2 (April 2002): 660.

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): 26-28.

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 Russia, 1918-1930 (Berkeley. CA: University of California Press, 1994), in Journal of Family History (July 1997): 359-360.

John Doyle Klier, Imperial Russia’s Jewish Question, 1855-1881 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), in Canadian-American Slavic Studies (1997).

Cultures in Flux: Lower-Class Values, Practices, and Resistance in Late Imperial Russia, edited by 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 Russia, 1861-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), in Labor History v. XXXV, no. 4 (Fall 1994): 612-614.

Joan Neuberger, Hooliganism: Crime, Culture, and Power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914 (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1993), in Slavic Review (Spring 1994): 232-33.

Selection committee, Higby Prize, AHA (2008)

Reviewer for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1995), National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Fellowship (2006), on National Screening Committee for the Institute of International Education under the U.S. Department of State’s Fulbright-Hays Program (2007, 2008, 2009).

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), Oxford University Press (2007), Journal of Social History (2008), Palgrave Macmillan (2008), Yale University Press (2009), Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (2010), Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy (2010).

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, ed. 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, Philadelphia,” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture v. 7, no. 2 (Spring 2007): 94-96.

Report in July 1996 to the National Council for Soviet and East European Research. “Russia’s New Adoption Laws.”

Awards:

JoAnn Mower Endowed Prize in Teaching Excellence (2010)

Rutgers University Provost’s Award for Teaching Excellence (2007)

Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence (1997)

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 Eurasia. (Accepted for summer 1996 in Moscow only). September 1995 through August 1996.

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 Washington, D.C. September 1995 - June 1996.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend ($4,750) with Travel for research in St Petersburg. May through July 1995.

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 Russia. June 1989 through August 1991.

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) short-term fellowship for conducting research in the Lenin Library, Moscow. June 1989.

Conferences:

November 2011 – Chair of panel on “Empire of Goods: Commodities and Consumerism in Late Imperial and Revolutionary Russia” at the annual meeting of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

November 2010 – Discussant for panel on “Imperial Russian Celebrities” at the annual meeting of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

November 2009 – Chaired 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 Soviet Union” at a meeting of the Delaware Valley Seminar on Russian History.

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 USSR” at a conference on private life in Russia held at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

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, Villanova University, for the Delaware Valley Seminar on Russian History.

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:

“Yellow Tickets: Regulating Prostitution in Imperial Russia”

Gender Studies Organization at Rutgers University in Camden – November 14, 2011

“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 Russia”

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”

Rutgers University in Camden – November 16, 2005

“Feminism and Socialism”

Philosophy Society, Rutgers University in Camden – April 13, 2005

“Transforming Childhood in Revolutionary Russia”

Guest lecture for “Introduction to Childhood and Childhood Studies”

Rutgers University in Camden – 2002, 2003, 2004

“An American Jew in Stalinist Russia”

Senior Seminar on Russian Revolutionary Society

Problems in Soviet History

“A Tale of Two Cities”: Moscow and St. Petersburg (Honors College)

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 Russia

Studies of the Twentieth Century: Revolutionary Transformation in Russia (graduate level)

Perspectives on History (historiography)

Women in European History

Women, Gender, and Modern European History (graduate level)

Modern Jewish History

Comparative Colloquium on Modern Jewish History (graduate level)

Socialism and Feminism in Europe

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

Senior Seminar on Readings in the History of Sexuality

Colloquium on Gender and Sexuality (graduate level)

Graduate fellowships:

Patrick Fellowship from University of California, Berkeley. September through December 1986.

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 USSR. September 1983 through June 1984.

Sidney Heller Fellowship from University of California, Berkeley. March 1983.

Patrick Fellowship from University of California, Berkeley. September 1981 through February 1982.

Patrick Fellowship from University of California, Berkeley. September 1980 through February 1981.

Non-academic employment:

Projects Director for non-profit agency in Sonoma County, California. Duties included program development, budget supervision, grant writing, and staff supervision. January 1978 through August 1979.

Affirmative Action Assistant for Sonoma State Office of Affirmative Action. June 1977 through December 1977.

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 Delaware Valley Seminar on Russian History

Service to Rutgers University in Camden:

Director, Women’s & Gender Studies (2001-ongoing)

University harassment advisor (2003-ongoing)

Faculty adviser, Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society (2010-ongoing)

Vice President, Faculty Senate (2011-12)

Elected member of Scholastic Standing Committee (2007-2011)

Co-chair, Chancellor’s Committee on Institutional Equity and Diversity (2011-12)

Member, Chancellor’s Committee on Institutional Equity and Diversity (2010-11)

Marshal, Camden College of Arts and Sciences graduation ceremonies (2006-09)

Secretary, Faculty Senate (2008-11, 2005-06, 2004-05, 2001-02)

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 Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellows Program

Search Committee for Athletic Director (1998)

Referee, 1997 Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellows Program

Committee on Rules and Procedures (1997-2000)

Ad Hoc Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics (1996-97)

Faculty Senator (2002-03; 1992-95)