Deirdre Ruscitti Harshman
Assistant Professor
McMurran Hall 321
(757) 594-7121
deirdre.harshman@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- MA in History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- BA in History and English Writing, University of Pittsburgh
Teaching
Modernity
Global History
Russian/Soviet History
Urban History
Gender Studies
Research
Russian/Soviet History
Urban History
Everyday Life
Gender Studies
Utopian Studies
Biography
Dr. Harshman is a historian of modern Russia, focusing on urban spaces in the revolutionary period (1890-1935). Her current book project, The Unruly Everyday: Managing Housing, Home, and the Russian City, 1890-1935, argues that managing the everyday was a fundamental part of the modern project. In the rapidly growing Russian city of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the home was a site of such management, and the book traces how it occurred in domestic sites and relationships such as the kitchen, the landlord-tenant relationship, and nighttime flophouses. Dr. Harshman is also the Book Review Editor of The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review.