HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA | CANADA B3H 4R2 | +1 (902) 494-2211
Dr. Inna Shtakser

Visiting Assistant Professor


Office: 3012 McCain Arts & Social Science Building
Office Hours: TBA
Email: inna@dal.ca
Tel:

902-492-8793
or 494-3623
902-494-3349 (fax)

 

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Russian cultural and social history before 1917; the Russian revolutionary movement;
working-class identities in 19th-early 20th century Russia; gender, class and ethnicity in
Russian imperial culture; working-class Jews in late Imperial Russia; Jewish-Russian
history; Jewish revolutionaries in Late Imperial Russia; anarchism in Late Imperial Russia.


PUBLICATIONS (under review):

Book manuscript:  Working-Class Jewish Youth of the Pale and Adoption of Revolutionary Identity: 1905-1907

Paper:  Pale of the Settlement Working-Class Jewish Youth and Adoption of Revolutionary Identity during the 1905 Revolution

Article:  The Anti-Jewish Pogroms of 1905-7:  Self-Defense as an Emotional Experience


CONFERENCE PAPERS:

2007 - "Access to Educatin as a Symbol of Citizenship among the Pale of Settlement Jews", Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies:

2007 - "Violence and the Concept of Citizenship among Working-Class Youth of the Pale
of Settlement", Annual Convention of the American Historical Association.

2006 - "Revolutionary Identity, Activist Emotions and Violence among the Working-Class
Jewish Youth of the Pale", Annual Convention of the American Association for the
Advancement of Slavic Studies.

2005 - "Revolutionary Identity and Youth Identity among Lower-Class Jews of the Pale during  the 1905 Revolution", Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

ONGOING RESEARCH

Jewish Working-Class Political Culture and Anarchism in Early 20th Century Russia.
  

COURSES OFFERED, FALL 2008

HIST 2022 F  Imperial Russia
HIST 3090 F  Russian Society
HIST 3092 F  Russian Topics (2008-09 Topic:  Russian Revolutinary Culture)

COURSES OFFERED, WINTER 2009

HIST 1004    Intro to European History
HIST 2021    Soviet Russia
HIST 3030    Russian Intellectual History