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Heather DeHaan

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 2005, University of Toronto
Modern Russia, Soviet Union, Urban History




Office: LT 714  

Phone: (607) 777-6738

E-mail: hdehaan@binghamton.edu

Dr. Heather D. DeHaan's research focuses on the problem of Stalinism, as manifested in urban development and urban politics. Her teaching interests include Russian History, the Cold War, 20th-century East Central Europe, and the twentieth-century European urban experience.

Recent or current undergraduate courses:

  • Imperial Russia
  • 20th-Century Russia
  • The Cold War from Both Sides: US and Soviet Views (co-gaught with Dr. John Stoner)
  • East Central Europe in the 20th Century

Recent or current graduate courses:

  • Comparative Urban History: The City in 20th Century Europe
  • Russian Empire: Viewing Russian History from the Periphery
  • Seminar on Soviet Seminar
  • Seminar on Imperial Russia

Awards (since 2006)

  • 2008/2009 Title VIII Research Scholarship at the Kennan Institute (to support the study of American companies involving in city-building in Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia from 1928-1932)
  • 2006 Tucker/Cohen prize (granted for an outstanding doctoral dissertation in the political history of the former Soviet Union)
  • 2006 UUP Individual Development Award (to support research travel)

Publications

  • "Finding the Soviet in Post-Soviet Space: An Excavation of the Post-Soviet City of Nizhnii Novgorod," in What is Socialism Now, edited by Thomas Lahusen and Peter Solomon (London: LIT Verlag, 2008).
  • "Modernizatsiia, otstalost' i Rossiia," in Problemy modernizatsii rossiiskogo obshchestva: sotsiokul 'turnye, pravovye, ekonomicheskie, ekologicheski aspekty (Nizhnii Novgorod: NF MNEPU, 2006), 55-57.
  • "From Nizhnii to Gor'kii: The Reconstruction of a Russian Provincial City in the Stanlinist 1930s," PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2005 (Available on Proquest.)
  • "Nizhnii Novgorod," The City and Urban Life, edited by Jan Rogozinskii (M. E. Sharpe). (Contract for publication).
  • "Engendering a People: Soviet Women and Socialist Rebirth in Russia," Canadian Slavonic Papers 3-4 (Sept-Dec. 1999): 431-455.

Conference Presentations (since 2006)

  • "Emplacing Power: The Spatial Restructing of Gor'kii in the 1930s," Conference on Eurasian Cities, University of Toronto, 14 March 2008.
  • "Making Space, Making Selves: Personalizing the Public in Stalin's Russia," AHA Annual Convention, Washington, DC, 5 January 2008.
  • “The Urban Landscape and the Politics of Soviet Identity: Producing the Local Cityscape through Popular Mobilization,” 38 th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, 16 November 2006.
  • Heather DeHaan, Roundtable panelist, “The Stalinist City: Comparative Approaches to the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc,” 38 th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, DC, 16 November 2006.
  • Heather DeHaan, “Finding the Soviet in Post-Soviet Spaces: An Excavation of the City of Nizhnii Novgorod (Russia) , ” The Harpur College Dean's Workshop in Visual Culture, Binghamton University (SUNY), 4 October 2006.
  • Heather DeHaan, “Modernizm i planirovka gorodov: nekotorye zamechaniia o Nizhnem Novgorode i Toronto (Modernization and Urban Planning: Reflections on Nizhnii Novgorod and Toronto),” GTsSI (State Center for Contemporary Art), Nizhnii Novgorod (Russia), 26 July 2006.
  • “The Archaeology of a Post-Soviet City: Nizhnii Novgorod,” Third Session of the Real Socialism Conference Series: “What is Soviet Now? Identities, Legacies, Memories,” University of Toronto, 6 April 2006.
  • “Spaces of Local Identity: Creating and Recreating an Urban Landscape in Nizhnii Novgorod, 1896-1937,” 37 th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City, UTAH, 3 November 2005.