Esther Kingston-Mann

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Professor Kingston-Mann is a scholar, writer and teacher of Russian/Soviet history, and has also published books and articles about teaching diverse students. She was born in Detroit, and was the first in her family to attend college. She received her undergraduate education at University of Michigan and Antioch College, and her Ph.D at Johns Hopkins University.

Areas of Special Interest
Privatization: Soviet era focus, but comparative perspective
Rise and Fall of the Cold War (US and Soviet perspectives)
Women under Communism during the Soviet era

Contact Information

Office: Wheatley 5-013

Phone: 617-287-6543

E-mail: esther.kingston-mann@umb.edu

Professor Kingston-Mann's Personal Website

Spring 09 Syllabus

Office Hours for Spring 2009

Thursdays 2:00-3:00

Professor Kingston-Mann's CV

Recent Publications
Lenin and the Problem of Marxist Peasant Revolution, l893-l9l7 (Oxford University Press, l983)

Transforming Peasants: Dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Development, Cambridge Modern History of Russia and the Soviet Union, ed. Ronald Grigor Suny, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 411-439

Claiming Property: The Soviet-era Private Plot as ‘Women’s Turf,’ The Borders of Socialism: The ‘Public’ and the ‘Private’ during the Soviet Era, ed Lewis Siegelbaum (NY: Palgrave, 2006)

Achieving Against the Odds: How Academics Become Teachers of Diverse Students, a book, co-edited, with Tim Sieber, (Temple University Press, 2001).