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Areas of Expertise

Professor Kingston-Mann teaches courses in Russian history, modern Europe, and the Cold War. Her current research focuses on the comparative history of property rights, with a particular emphasis on gender issues.

Degrees

PhD Johns Hopkins University

Professional Publications & Contributions

• Lenin and the Problem of Marxist Peasant Revolution, l893-l9l7 (Oxford University Press, l983).
• "Transforming Peasants: Dilemmas of Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Development," in Cambridge Modern History of Russia and the Soviet Union, ed. Ronald Grigor Suny (Cambridge University Press, 2006), 411-439.
• "Claiming Property: The Soviet-era Private Plot as ‘Women’s Turf,’" in The Borders of Socialism: The ‘Public’ and the ‘Private’ during the Soviet Era, ed. Lewis Siegelbaum (Palgrave, 2006).
• Co-edited with Tim Sieber, Achieving Against the Odds: How Academics Become Teachers of Diverse Students (Temple University Press, 2001).

Additional Information

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.

Sample Syllabus: Modern World History (Spring 2009)

Professor Kingston-Mann's CV