Curriculum Vitae
Academic Positions
Adjunct Professor, St. John’s University, 2018 -
History Dept., Government & Politics Dept. - New York
Adjunct Professor, SUNY Suffolk Community College, 2016 -
Social Science Department - New York
Adjunct Professor, Hofstra University, 2020 - 2021
History Department - New York
Teacher Assistant, SUNY Stony Brook University, Summer 2019
Herzen State Pedagogical University - St. Petersburg, Russia
Education
Ph.D. — St. John’s University (2023)
Davatzes Research Grant Recipient (2020)
Visiting Scholar, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia (2019-2022)
Study Abroad Scholar, SUNY Stony Brook University, St. Petersburg, Russia (2019)
Davatzes Fellow (2017)
St. John’s University Doctoral Fellow (2016-2021)
M.A. — SUNY Stony Brook University (2016)
B.A. — St. Joseph’s University (2014)
Publications
Nadezhda Krupskaya and the New View of Radical Society in Russia, Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.
"Aleksandra Kollontai: The Life of a Bolshevik Revolutionary." In Women Who Changed the World. ABC-CLIO, 2022.
"Nadezhda Krupskaya: Educator, Organizer, and Bolshevik Theorist." In Women Who Changed the World. ABC-CLIO, 2022.
"Mobilization of a Collective Consciousness: How Nadezhda Krupskaya and Aleksandra Kollontai Shaped the First Socialist State." In Women and Nonviolence. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.
“Understanding Soviet National Consciousness, and Why Nadezhda Krupskaya Matters,” All The Russias. NYU Jordan Center, 2020.
Other Writing
“The Left Wing History of the Republican Party,” Cosmonaut, (2019).
“The USSR’s Founding Mother,” Cosmonaut, (2018).
“Being Anti-Trump Doesn’t Mean Anti-Russia,” Politics Means Politics, (2017).
Conference Lectures & Participation
“Nadezhda Krupskaya and the Revolutionary Transcendence of Soviet National Development,” Culture Fest, Herzen State Pedagogical University, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2019, Presenter.
“Recasting the Russian Civil War: National Antecedents in the Soviet Revolutionary Experience,” The Northeastern Slavic, East European and Eurasian Conference, New York University, New York City, NY, March 2019, Presenter.
“Nadezhda Krupskaya and the Revolutionary Transcendence of Women in National Development,” The Long Island Social Science Conference, SUNY Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY, October 2018, Presenter.
“Nadezhda Krupskaya and the Revolutionary Transcendence of Women in National Development,” The Northeastern Slavic, East European and Eurasian Conference, New York University, New York City, NY, April 2018, Presenter.
Graduate Panel: Theme: Political Changes, New York State Political Science Association Conference, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY, April 2018, Panel Chair.
Undergraduate Panel: Theme: Comparative Politics, New York State Political Science Association Conference, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY, April 2018, Panel Chair.
“Beyond Communist Apathy in Africa,” New York State Political Science Association Conference, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY, April 2018, Presenter.
“CASH Conference: Exploring Basic Income in a Changing Economy,” Universal Basic Income Project, San Fransisco, CA. October 2017, Participant.
“Labor in Revolutionary America,” Culture and Identity Configurations: Reflections on the 21st Century, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, October 2017, Presenter.
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, June 2017, Participant.
“The Red Army Choir and the Musical Expression of Soviet Transformation,” World History Theory and Practice Conference, St. John’s University, New York City, NY, April 2017, Presenter.
SUNY Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, SUNY Suffolk Community College, Brentwood, NY, April 2017, Participant.
“The Red Army Choir and the Musical Expression of Soviet Transformation,” The Northeastern Slavic, East European and Eurasian Conference, New York University, New York City, NY, April 2017, Presenter.
“Labor History,” Community College Conference, New York State Union of Teachers (NYSUT), Saratoga Springs, NY, October 2016, Participant.
Courses Taught
GOV 3290: The Politics of Revolution, HIS 1000c: Emergence of the Global Society, HIS 102: Western Civilization II, HIS 107: Modern World History, HIST 020: Comparative Revolutions, HIST 138: Early Soviet History, POL 101: Political Thought, POL 111: Comparative Politics, and others
Department and University Service
Executive Council Representative, Faculty Association of Suffolk Community College, 2020 -
Social Justice Committee, Faculty Association of Suffolk Community College, 2017-2019
Social Science Assessment Committee for Political Science (SUNY), 2019
Honors & Distinctions
Davatzes Research Grant Fellow, 2020.
Visiting Scholar, NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, 2019-2022.
Study Abroad Scholar, Explore! St. Petersburg Russia, SUNY Stony Brook University, 2019.
St. John’s University Doctoral Fellow, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.
Davatzes Fellow, 2017.
Professional Affiliations (past and present)
American Association of University Professors; American Constitution Society; American Historical Association; American Political Science Association; Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Berkshire Conference of Women Historians; Faculty Association of Suffolk Community College; New York Political Science Association; NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia; Northeast Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Association; Sigma Tau Delta; Sigma Alpha Pi