Amy Nelson, Associate Professor (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1993)

Areas of Specialization: Russia, Europe, Cultural History, Animal Studies, Environmental History

Current Research: Animals in Russian History and Culture; Collective Biography of Soviet Space Dogs

Recent Publications:
•“The Music of Memory and Forgetting: Global Echoes of Sputnik 2,” in Remembering the Space Age, NASA History Series, ed. Steven J. Dick (Washington, DC: NASA History Division, 2008), pp. 237-252.

•“Der abwesende Freund. Laikas kulturelles Nachleben,” in Ich, das Tier. Tiere als Persönlichkeiten in der Kulturgeschichte,eds., Jessica Ullrich, Friedrich Weltzien and Heike Fuhlbrügge (Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 2008), pp. 215-224

• “A Hearth for a Dog: The Paradoxes of Soviet Pet Keeping,” in Borders of Socialism. The Private Sphere in the Soviet Union, ed. Lewis Siegelbaum (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 123-144.

• “Accounting for Taste: Choral Circles in Early Soviet Workers' Clubs," in Chorus and Community, ed. Karen Ahlquist, (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006), pp. 139-162

• Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia, (Pennsylvania State University Press,2004)