Recent publications
Books
Putin Kitsch in America (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019).
Open Letters: Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard, 1880-1922 (University of Toronto Press, hardcover 2013; paperback 2021).
Articles & Book Chapters
"Chained to a Wheelbarrow: Hard Labor on an 1890s Picture Postcard from Siberia," in Picturing Russian Empire, eds. V. Kivelson, J. Neuberger & S. Kozlov (Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 241-47.
"Old Tricks for a New Dog: Toilet Humor, Politicized Kitsch and the Trump Presidency," in The Changing Meaning of Kitsch: From Rejection to Acceptance, eds. M. Ryynanen & Paco Barragan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), pp. 143-164.
"An American in Magnitogorsk, 1930: Clare F. Saltz's Letter and a Half to His Aunt Hazel in La Crosse, WI," Journal of Russian American Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 (May 2022), pp 40-51
"Feminine Majesty on an International Stage: French Postcards and Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna," in Empresses and Queens in Courtly Public Spheres from the 17th to the 20th Century, ed Marion Romberg (Brill, 2021)
"Portraits of Putin: An installation reflecting on his twenty years in power and his presence in the global public sphere," Journal of Arts & Communities, Vol 12, Nos 1-2 (2020), pp 57-84
"Visiting Lenin: The Impressions of Foreign Visitors to the Mausoleums, 1924-1928," The Historian, Vol 82, No 4 (2020), pp 434-462
With AltheaThompson, “The Sisterhood of the Trump/Putin Cross-Stitch,” in Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest fromthe American Revolution to the Pussyhats, ed. H. Mandell (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), pp. 319-322.
"Russian Revolutionary as American Celebrity: a Case Study of Yekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya," in The Palgrave Handbook on Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia, ed. M. Ilic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 7-23.
"'Trump and Putin sittin’ in a Tree': Material Culture, Slash and the Pornographication of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election," Porn Studies, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2017), pp. 381-405.
"Dark Tourism and the Death of Russian Emperor Alexander II, 1881-1891," The Historian, Vol. 79, No. 2 (Summer 2017), pp. 229-55.
"Picture Postcards as Recorders of the Changing Cult of Lenin, 1918-1930," The NEP Era: Soviet Russia, 1921-1928, Vol. 4 (2010), pp. 11-29 .
"The New Soviet Woman at the 1939 New York's World Fair," in T.J. Boisseau and A.M. Markwyn, eds., Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World's Fairs (University of Illinois Press, 2010), pp. 37-55.
"Monarchy and the Mundane: Picture Postcards and Images of the Romanovs, 1890-1917," Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 22, No. 2 (2009), pp. 125-152.
"Where Are All the Mother-Heroines? Images of Maternity in Soviet Films of the 1930s," Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 44, (Spring/Summer 2009), pp. 25-38.
"Popular Culture and Visual Narratives of Revolution: Russian Postcards, 1905-1922," Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 21, No. 1 (June 2008), pp. 1-31.
"Masha Grab Your Gun: 1930s Images of Soviet Women and the Defense of Their Country," MINERVA: Women and War 2/1 (Spring 2008), pp. 34-69.
"A Third Wave Writer and the Prose Tradition of the Soviet 1920s: The Similarities Between Zinovii Zinik's 'Cricket' and Iuri Olesha's Envy," Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 49, Nos. 3-4 (2007), pp. 9-23.
"Sport in the Service of the State: Images of Physical Culture and Soviet Women, 1917-1941," The International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol 23, No 8 (2006), pp. 1314-1340.
"Spreading the Bolshevik Message? Soviet Regional Periodicals for Women in the 1920s and 1930s," Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 47, Nos. 1-2 (2005), pp. 1-16.
"Beyond the Archives and Into Cyberspace: e-Bay as a Source For Historical Research and Teaching Materials," Women-East-West, No. 77 (2003), pp. 2-3.
"Kandinsky's Theory of Color and Olesha's Envy," Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 44, Nos. 3-4 (2002), pp. 251-261.
"From the Concerns of Women to the Concerns of the State: Soviet Women's Magazines 1917-1941," Solanus: International Journal for Russian and East European Bibliographic, Library and Publishing Studies, Vol. 16 (2002), pp.85-97.
"Miniature Propaganda: Self-Definition and Soviet Postage Stamps, 1917-1941," Slavonica, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2002), pp. 135-157.
"Ready for Work and Defence: visual Progaganda and Soviet Women's Military Preparedness in the 1930s," Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, Special Issue: Soviet and Russian Women's Experience of War and the Military, Vol. 18, Nos. 3-4 (2000), pp. 3-15.
Work in progress
