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September 13, 2002|Volume 31, Number 2



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Laura Engelstein joins faculty as McNeil Professor


Laura Engelstein
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Laura Engelstein, who was recently named the Henry S. McNeil Professor of History, is a historian of modern Europe with special expertise in Russian history.

She comes to Yale this year from Princeton University, where she was a member of the faculty since 1985. At Princeton, she taught imperial Russian history, with a focus on social and cultural themes.

Engelstein is the author of three books: "Moscow, 1905: Working-Class Organization and Political Conflict"; "The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Russia" (also translated into Russian), which in 1993 won both the American Association's for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Wayne S. Vucinich Prize and the Association of Women in Slavic Studies' Heldt Prize; and "Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale." Most recently, she co-edited "Self and Story in Russian History."

The historian's numerous articles have explored such topics as prostitution and rape in 19th-century Russian criminal codes; legal and medical debates about abortion just prior to the Russian revolution; Russian spiritual culture; and Russian orthodoxy and cultural change.

Engelstein earned her B.A. from City College of New York and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Before joining the Princeton faculty, she taught at Cornell University. She held the Philip and Beulah Rollins Preceptorship at Princeton University 1988-1992 and was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton 1989-1990. She has been a fellow of the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Center for the History of Freedom at Washington University and the National Humanities Center. She was director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris in 1995.

In addition to her book awards, Engelstein won the Chester Higby Prize from the Modern European History Section of the American Historical Association for the best article in the Journal of Modern History. She traveled to the Soviet Union in the early 1970s as part of an International Research and Exchange Board (IREX)/
Fulbright Hays Graduate Student Exchange and again in 1990 as part of an IREX-American Council of Learned Societies/Academy of Sciences Exchange.


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