E. Thomas Ewing, Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1994)

Areas of Specialization: Russia/Soviet Union, Europe, women’s history, history of education, world/global history

Current Research: Gender and education in modern Russian

Recent Publications:
•“If the Teacher was a Man: Masculinity and Power in Stalinist Schools.” Gender & History Vol. 21, No. 1 (April 2009) pp. 107-129.

•Co-editor, with David Hicks, Education and the Great Depression. Lessons from a Global History. (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2006)

•“The Repudiation of Single-Sex Schooling: Boys’ Schools in the Soviet Union, 1943-1954.” American Educational Research Journal Vol. 43, No. 4 (Winter 2006) pp. 621-650.

•“Ethnicity at School: Educating the ‘Non-Russian’ Children of the Soviet Union, 1928-1939.” History of  Education (UK) Vol. 35, No. 4-5 (July September 2006) pp. 499-519.

•Editor, Revolution and Pedagogy: Transnational and Interdiscipinary Perspectives on Educational Foundations. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

• Guest Editor, “Russian History in Classrooms and Textbooks: New Perspectives on the National Past,” Russian Studies in History vol. 43, No. 3-4 (2004-2005).

•The Teachers of Stalinism: Policy, Practice, and Power in Soviet Schools of the 1930s. (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2002).

•“Personal Acts with Public Meanings:  Suicide by Soviet Women Teachers in the Stalin Era.” Gender & History vol. 14, no. 1 (April 2002) pp. 117-137.