Gender and Education: Papers

“Emotions, Gender, and Power in the Soviet Classroom.” Roundtable Presentation, Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Atlanta, March 29, 2008.

“Making Sense of Childrens’ World in the Context of Soviet History.” Roundtable Presentation, Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Atlanta, March 28, 2008.

“Should Feminists Support Separate Girls’ Schools? Equality and Difference in Single Sex Education.” Virginia Tech Women’s Month Public Lecture, March 10, 2008.

“Women Teachers and Female Pupils: Materials and Strategies for Studying Gender in Soviet History.” Presentation to the Women’s History Discussion Group, US Library of Congress, March 6, 2008.

“The Making (and Unmaking) of a Stalinist Girl.” Paper for a Roundtable, Girls and Girlhood in Global History, at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 4, 2008.

“’Let Our Children Study Together!’: Single-Sex Schools, Gender Bias, and Popular Opinion in the Soviet Union, 1943 to 1954.” Paper presented to the 6th International Conference of the Gender and Education Association, Dublin, Ireland, March 30, 2007.

“Clean, Warm, and Calm: Girls’ Schools in the Soviet Union, 1943-1954.” Paper for the Annual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Montgomery, March 23, 2007.

“Gender and Power in Russian Education from the Reform Era to the Revolution.” Roundtable presentation, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, Montgomery, March 23, 2007.

“The Exercise of Power in the Stalinist School.” Working Paper for the ASPECT Seminar at Virginia Tech on Foucault on History, Power, and the Self,January 26, 2007.

"'To Preserve and Even Develop the Individuality of Pupils': Debating Coeducation in Imperial Russia." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, November 17, 2006.

"Gender, Power, and Education in Imperial Russia, 1861-1914." History of Education Society Annual Meeting, Ottawa, October 27, 2006.

"'Biological' Differences without 'Sex' Differences: Gender and Soviet Education, 1940s - 1960s." Paper presented to History of Education Society Meeting, Baltimore, October 23, 2005.

"Debating Single Gender and Coeducational Schools in the Postwar Soviet Union." Paper presented to the International Council for Central and East European Studies VII World Congress, Berlin, July 27, 2005.

"The 'Problem' of Boys and Girls in Soviet Education of the 1920s." Virginia Tech Women's Studies Faculty Research Presentation, November 5, 2004.

"Reasserting Masculine Hegemony: Boys' Schools in the Soviet Union, 1943-1954." Virginia Tech History Department Colloquium, September 30, 2004.

"Constructing Gender in Post-War Soviet Society: Boys and Girls in Single-Sex Schools, 1943-1954." European Social Science History Conference, Berlin, March 24, 2004.

"Constructing Coeducation: Soviet Schools, Child Studies, and Gender in the 1920s." Southern Seminar in Eurasian Studies, University of Georgia, December 6, 2003.

"Asserting the 'Particular' Needs of Boys and Girls: Single-Sex Education in Soviet Schools, 1943-1954." Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Storrs , June 2002.

"Gender Equity as a Revolutionary Strategy: Soviet Coeducation, 1917 to 1943." Conference on Revolution and Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Change, at Ohio State University, April 18-20, 2002.

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