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Education

• Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
• M.A., University of  South Alabama, 1996
• B.S., Louisiana State University, 1984

Publications

• "Perspectives on Eastern European Retailing and Consumption," History of Retailing and Consumption, 4:2 (2018).
• "Retailing in Russia and Eastern Europe," in The Routledge Companion to Retail History. Jon Stobart and Vicki Howard (ed.). London:  Routledge, 2018.
• "The Invention of Soviet Advertising," in Material Culture in Russia and the USSR from Peter the Great to Putin: Objects, Values, Identities. Graham H. Roberts (ed.). London: Berg Books, 2017.
• "Gender and Ideological Rivalry in Ninotchka and Cirucs: THe Capitalist and Communist Make-Over." Studies in Russan and Soviet Cinema 8:1. 2014.
• . University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012.
• "The Customer is Always Wrong: Consumer Complaint in Late-NEP Russia." The Russian Review 68:1, January 2009.
• "Retailing the Revolution: THe State Department Store (GUM) and Soviet Society in the 1920s." Journal of Social History 37:4, Summer 2004.

Courses Taught

• Imperial Russia
• The Soviet Union, 1917-91
• Revolution and Soviet Society
• Soviet History at the Movies
• Eastern European Society and Culture
• Europe since 1914
• Introduction to Historical Studies
• Women and Gender in World History
• Consumer Culture in Global Perspective
• Comparative Revolution
• World Civilizations and Cultures to 1500
• World Civilizations and Cultures since 1500

Research Interests

• Revolutionary Russia;
• Soviet Union;
• Modern Europe;
• Consumer Culture;
• Gender;
• Film