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Frances Bernstein is associate professor of history at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. She received her doctorate in Russian history from Columbia University in 1998. She teaches courses in Russian and European history, as well as in the history of medicine and public health, the history of disability, the history of the body, and the history of sexuality. In 2007 she published The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007). Her current research focuses on the culture and politics of disability in the Soviet context.
Education: B.A. in Russian Studies with Honors (1987), Brown University. M.A. (1991) and Ph.D. (1998) in History, Columbia University.
Areas of specialization: Russian and Soviet History, The History of Disability and Disability Studies, The History of Medicine and Public Health, The History of Sexuality and the Body
Current research:
Book in progress: Missing in Action: Erasing Disability During and After the Great Patriotic War
Ongoing: Autism in Soviet and post-Soviet History; Disability in the USSR
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Awards and Other Academic Contributions:
New York University Russian/Slavic Studies Visiting Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Grant
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Grant
ACTR Title VIII Research Scholarship
Social Science Research Council Eurasia Fellowship
Courses Taught:
The History of Russia
The History of the USSR
The Making of an Epidemic: Autism
The History of Disease
Disability History
Disability Studies
Mad Doctors and Bad Patients: The Psychiatry of Deviance
Gender, Sexuality, and Medicine in Modern Europe
The History of the Body
The History of Sexuality
Decadent and Doomed: Europe, 1880-1914
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I teach a broad range of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. I specialize in the U.S. foreign policy, the U.S. since World War II and the Sixties. My book, Inventing Vietnam, is an analysis of the failed nation building effort undertaken by the United States in Vietnam and how that failure led to the war. In related research, I have also written on privatization of war and war profiteering, using the invasion of Iraq as a case study.
My more recent research focuses on the Sixties in the U.S. and specifically the counterculture and advent of rock music culture, with a particular emphasis on the role of the college campus. My article, “Campus Rock: Rock Music Culture on the College Campus during the Counterculture Sixties, 1967-8,” has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Popular Music Studies.
This project has also taken me into the realm of digital history/digital mapping. Thanks in part to a couple of Mellon Grants at Drew during the spring and summer 2019, I and three research assistants have created an extensive GIS mapping project of rock music during the late sixties. For more information, see my website: jmarloncarter.com.
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Professor Pechilis is an historian of religions who specializes in the study of India and South Asia. She teaches courses in world history, gender and history, and religion and spirituality in late modernity. She has served as Director of the Humanities Program in the College and Director of Arts & Letters in Drew’s Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. Her recent publications in the history of religions that engage translation, history, gender studies and ethnography include the monograph, Interpreting Devotion: The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of India (2012), the co-edited volume Re-Figuring the Body: Embodiment in South Asian Religions (2017), and a journal special issue, “Contemporary Images of Hindu Bhakti: Identity and Visuality,” in the Journal of Hindu Studies (2019). Current research includes a volume on devotional visualities. For more information, please go to kpechilis.net.
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Jonathan Rose (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is the William R. Kenan Professor of History. His fields of study are British history, intellectual history, and the history of the book. He served as the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, and as the president of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. His book The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (2001) won the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the Longman-History Today Historical Book of the Year Prize, and the British Council Prize. He has also published A Companion to the History of the Book (2007), The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation (2001), The Revised Orwell (1992), British Literary Publishing Houses 1820-1965 (1991), and The Edwardian Temperament 1895-1919 (1986). He was a founding coeditor of the journal Book History, which won the Council of Editors of Learned Journals award for the Best New Journal of 1999. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University, and he reviews books for the Times Literary Supplement and the Wall Street Journal. His most recent books are The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor (Yale UP, 2014), which won the New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Prize; Readers’ Liberation (Oxford UP, 2018); and The Edinburgh History of Reading (4 vols., Edinburgh UP, 2020).
Education: B.A. in History cum laude (1974), Princeton University. M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1981) in History, University of Pennsylvania.
Areas of specialization: British history and history of the book.
Current research: Playboy’s female readers.
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