Scholarship and Biography

Russian-Jewish historian with research interests in gender, family, sexuality, radical movements, and everyday life.

Honors

Grant, "Sex and the Shtetl: Jewish Sexuality, Gender, and Family in Imperial Russia"
Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, 1996-1997
Harry Starr Fellowship
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 1996-1997
Collaborative Grant: "Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia"
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington D.C.) - NEH, 1996-2007
The Michael L. Walzer Award for Teaching
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2001-2002
Salo W. Baron Prize for the best first book in Jewish Studies
American Academy for Jewish Research (United States, Ann Arbor) - AAJR, 2002
Bernstein Faculty Fellowship
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2002-2003
Alan M. Stroock Fellow For Advanced Research in Jewish Studies
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 2007
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Mentoring Award
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2013
Senior Faculty Research Leave Grant
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2014
Mellon Sawyer Seminar Grant: "Imperiled Bodies: Slavery, Colonialism, Citizenship, and the Logics of Gender-Based Violence"
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (United States, New York), 2022-2023
Mellon Sawyer Seminar Grant: "Imperiled Bodies: Slavery, Colonialism, Citizenship, and the Logics of Gender-Based Violence"
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (United States, New York), 2024-2025

Organizational Affiliations

Frances and Max Elkon Chair in Modern Jewish History, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University

Frances and Max Elkon Chair in Modern Jewish History, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Department of History, Brandeis University

Education

Brandeis University
Ph.D.
Brandeis University
M.A.
University of California, Irvine
B.A.