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:
• “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)