Susan Joan Smith-Peter Department of History * College of Staten Island/CUNY 2800 Victory Boulevard * Building 2N, Room 215 Staten Island, NY 10314 310 Hana Road * Edison NJ 08817 smith-peter@mail.csi.cuny.edu EDUCATION University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1995-2001 Ph.D. August 2001 M.A. May 1997 Dissertation Title: Civil Society, the State and the Local in Pre-reform Russia: Vladimir Province, 1830-1861 REFEREED PUBLICATIONS "Konstantin Arsenev and Russian Statistics, 1800--1848", History of Science (forthcoming). "Russkaia statistika pervoi poloviny XIX v. v obshcheevropeiskom kontekste" [Russian statistics of the first half of the nineteenth century in the European context], Voprosy istorii estestvoznanii i tekniki, no. 4, (Fall 2005), 125--136. "Provincial Public Libraries and the Law in Nicholas I's Russia," Library History 21 (July 2005), 103--119. "Books Behind the Altar: Religion, Village Libraries, and the Moscow Agricultural Society," Russian History/Histoire Russe 31, no. 3 (Fall 2004), 213--233 (lead article). PUBLICATIONS "Mikhail Speransky" entry, Scribner's Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789--1914 (forthcoming). Review of Viktor Berdinskikh, Uezdnye istoriki: Russkaia provintsialnaia istoriografiia. [District Historians: Russian Provincial Historiography] (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2003), Kritika 6, no. 4 (Fall 2005), 873--878. Review of Thomas Newlin, The Voice in the Garden: Andrei Bolotov and the Anxieties of Russian Pastoral, 1738--1833 (Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press, 2001), Russian History/Histoire Russe 31, no. 3 (Fall 2004), 328--329. Review of Molly Wesling, Napoleon in Russian Cultural Mythology (New York: Peter Lang, ), Russian History/Histoire Russe 31, no. 3 (Fall 2004), 329--331. "How to Write a Region: Local History and Regional History," (review essay), Kritika 5, no. 3 (Summer 2004), 527--542. Review of K.I. Abramov, Gorodskie publichnye biblioteki Rossii: Istoriia stanovleniia (1830--nachalo 1860-kh g.g.) [Municipal Public Libraries of Russia: History of their Founding (1830--early 1860s)] (Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2001) Solanus: International Journal for Russian and East European Bibliographic, Library and Publishing Studies, n.s., vol. 18 (2004), 127--128. "Regionalism" entry, The Encyclopedia of Russian History, vol. 3, ed. by A. Millar (New York: Macmillan, 2004), 1184--1185. Review of Abby Schrader, Languages of the Lash: Corporal Punishment and Identity in Imperial Russia (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002), Canadian Slavonic Papers 45, nos. 3--4 (September--December 2003), 526--527. Review of S.A. Kozlov, Agrarnye traditsii i novatsii v doreformennoi Rossii: tsentralno-necherno-zemnye gubernii [Agrarian Traditions and Innovations in Pre-reform Russia: Central Industrial Region] (Moscow: Rosspen, 2002), Kritika 4, no. 4 (Fall 2003), 985--990. Review of Alexander Martin, trans., Dmitrii Ivanovich Rostislavov, Provincial Russia in the Age of Enlightenment: The Memoir of a Priest's Son (DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002), Russian History/Histoire Russe 3, no. 3 (Fall 2003), 346--347. Review of Adeeb Khalid, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), Russian History/Histoire Russe 3, no. 3 (Fall 2003), 350--351. Editor, "Russian Nobility and Local Society" issue, Russian Studies in History 42, no. 1 (Summer 2003). "Introduction", Russian Studies in History 42, no. 1 (Summer 2003), 4--8. "Internet Use in Undergraduate Russian and East European Women's History Courses," Women East-West 72 (June 2002), 5--6. Review of Deborah A. Martinsen, ed. Literary Journals in Imperial Russia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), Canadian Slavonic Papers 42, no. 4 (December 2000), 551--553. "Arsenii arkhiepiskop Suzdalskii i ego biograf Ieromanakh Ioasaf" [Arsenii, Archbishop of Suzdal and his biographer, the monk Ioasaf], Materialy oblastnoi kraevedcheskoi konferentsii (19 maia 2000 g.) (Vladimir, 2001), 105--108. "K istorii arkheologicheskogo izucheniia Vladimirskogo kraia" [Towards the history of archeology in the Vladimir region], Materialy oblastnoi kraevedcheskoi konferentsii (14 maia 1999 g.), (Vladimir, 2000), 8--11. "Tikhonravov kak arkheolog" [Tikhonravov as an archeologist], Rozhdestvenskii sbornik 6 (Kovrov, 1999), 46--48. "Separate Spheres, the Public Sphere: Examining the Links between Religion and the Labor Movement," Thematica 3 (1996), 30--44. LECTURES AND PAPERS PRESENTED "Kazan between Europe and Asia: Views from the early Nineteenth Century." Presented at Politics, Space, and Power in Modern Russian History: A Conference in honor of Abbott Gleason, Brown University, March 24, 2006. "Russian Provincial Periodicals between Region and Empire, 1786--1825." Presented at the Columbia Russian History Workshop, Columbia University, February 4, 2006. "The View from the Regions in 18th-Century Russia, or, Some Notes on Describing the Local." Presented at American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Salt Lake City, November 3, 2005. "Statistics as Social Criticism in Mid--Nineteenth-Century Russia." Presented at Intelligentsia: Russian and Soviet Science on the World Stage, 1860--1960 Conference, University of Georgia at Athens, October 30, 2004. "The Moscow Agricultural Society and Peasant Women's Education in Mid--Nineteenth-Century Russia." Presented at the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, October 21, 2004. "Peasant Girls and Women's Religious Education in Mid--Nineteenth-Century Russia." Presented at the American Women in Slavic Studies Workshop at the University of Illinois, June 30, 2004. "Provincial Public Libraries and the Law in Nicholas I's Russia." Presented at the Nineteenth Century Russian Reading Culture Group, University of Illinois, June 29, 2004. "Church Literacy and Women's Education in 1840s Russia." Presented at the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference at Barnard College, Columbia University, March 27, 2004. "The Education of Peasant Girls in 1840s Russia." Presented at the College of Staten Island Department of History, City University of New York, March 18, 2004. "Church Literacy and Women's Education in 1840s Russia." Presented at the 2004 Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, Ohio, February 27, 2004. "The Russian Nobility and Local Society." Presented at American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Toronto, November 22, 2003. "The Moscow Agricultural Society and Women's Education in Mid--Nineteenth-Century Russia." Presented at the University of Illinois, June 27, 2003. "Educating Peasant Women in Mid--Nineteenth-Century Russia." Presented at College of Staten Island Women's History Symposium, April 5, 2003. "Debates on Industrialization and the Provincial Public in the 1850s." Presented at AAASS, Pittsburgh, November 22, 2002. "Pozharskii's Grave: National and Local Identity in Mid--Nineteenth-Century Russia." Presented at the California Polytechnic State University, January 28, 2002, and at the College of Staten Island, February 26, 2002. "Alexander Herzen, the Local Public, and the Vladimir Public Library." Presented at AAASS, Crystal City, Virginia, November 16, 2001. "Statistics and the Industrial Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Russia." Presented at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, November 6, 2001. "The Gorbachev Era." Russian and East European Studies (REES) 200, University of Illinois, March 26, 2001. "Peasants in a Romanian Landscape: Gender, Space, and Nation in Liviu Rebreanu's Novel Ion." Presented at the Women's and Gender History Symposium, University of Illinois, March 23, 2001. "The Brezhnev Era." REES 200, March 28, 2000, and March 7, 2001. "The Good Capitalist: The Emergence of the Capitalist in 1850s Russia." Presented at the University of Illinois Russian and East European Center Brown Bag Series, September 19, 2000. "Arsenii, Archbishop of Suzdal and the Monk Ioasaf." Presented in Russian at the Local History Conference on The Orthodox Church and the Vladimir Region, Vladimir, Russia, May 19, 2000. "The Russian Revolution," History 112, University of Illinois, April 13, 2000. "Pozharskii's Grave: Archaeology, the Local and the Nation in 1850s Russia." Presented at the Midwest Russian History Workshop, Urbana-Champaign, March 31, 2000. "Tikhonravov as an Archaeologist." Presented in Russian at the National Conference on Provincial Society and Culture, Kovrov, Russia, January 14, 1999. RECORD OF TEACHING Assistant Professor, History Department, College of Staten Island 2002-present Spring 2006 History 375 "Economic History of Soviet Russia" History 239 "World Civilization since 1500" History 203 "World Civilization since 1914" Fall 2005 History 274 "Modern Russia" History 384 "Social and Political Ideologies in the Modern World" History 717 Graduate class on "Problems in European History" Fall 2004 History 200 "Introduction to Historical Methods" History 239 "World Civilization since 1500" Spring 2004 History 239 "World Civilization since 1500" History 274 "Modern Russia" Fall 2003 History 200 "Introduction to Historical Methods" History 384 "Social and Political Ideologies in the Modern World" Spring 2003 HSSH (Honors) 104 "Russian Utopias from Peter the Great to Lenin" History 239 "World Civilization since 1500" Fall 2002 History 100 (two sections) "Past and Present: World History since 1789" History 274 "Modern Russia" Instructor, History Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2001-2002 History 395 "Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union" History 474 (independent study) "Literature and Life in the Soviet Union" Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1999-2000 History 111 "Western Civilization from Antiquity to 1660" History 112 "Western Civilization from the 17th Century to the Present" FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS Recipient, Fullbright Research Award for work in Moscow 2007 Associate Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (project title "The Question of the West"), Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2006-2008 PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York 2006 Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, New York Public Library, "Visual Resources in Teaching and Research in Early East Slavic Cultures," June 17-June 29, 2006 Associate Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2005-2006 PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York 2005 Associate, Summer Research Laboratory, University of Illinois 2005 Scholar Incentive Award, City University of New York (in conjunction with Visiting Scholar award at Rutgers) 2005 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2004 PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York 2004 Associate, Summer Research Laboratory, University of Illinois 2004 Bernadette E. Schmitt Grant for Research in European, African, and Asian History, American Historical Association 2003 CUNY Faculty Summer Research Grant, City University of New York 2003 PSC-CUNY Research Award, City University of New York 2003 Associate, Summer Research Laboratory, University of Illinois 2003 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2001-2002 History Department Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Illinois 2000-2001 The Skalnik Prize for Outstanding Graduate Student Essay, University of Illinois 2001 Feminist Scholarship Award, Women's Studies Program, University of Illinois 2000, 2001 Verdell Frazier Young Award for Women Students, University of Illinois 2000 IREX Individual Advanced Research Opportunities in Eurasia Scholar 1998-1999 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program Fellow 1998-1999 Summer FLAS for Russian, Indiana University 1998 Summer FLAS for Ukrainian, Harvard University 1997 Frederick I. Rodkey Prize for the Most Promising Graduate Student in Russian History, University of Illinois 1997 Academic year FLAS for Russian, University of Illinois 1995-1996 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to Russia 1994-1995 SERVICE Member, Executive Board, Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, official affiliate of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies 2006-2009 Introduced and presented Soviet film "Moscow Does not Believe in Tears," CSI Women's Studies "Gender at the Movies: Screening Difference" series March 22, 2006 Selected as faculty mentor for SEEK program, CSI 2006 Member, African history search committee, Department of History 2006 Member, CSI History Department Committee on the Major 2006 Member, CSI History Faculty Committee on Developing Ancient and Medieval History Curriculum Committee 2004-present External Faculty Member, Political Science, Economics and Philosophy Search Committee 2004 Faculty Fellow, Writing Across the Curriculum 2003-2004 College-wide Curriculum Committee 2003-present College-wide Course and Standing Committee 2002-2003 Commencement Marshal, Women's Studies 2003 CURRENT MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Historical Association American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies American Association of University Women Association for Women in Slavic Studies World History Association