Contributors to This Issue
- Contributors to This Issue
Paulina Bren teaches in the Department of History at Vassar College. Her book, The Greengrocer and His TV: A History of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring, will be published in the fall of 2009. She is currently working on a co-edited volume with Mary Neuburger titled “The Communist ‘Good Life’: Cultures of Consumption in Postwar Eastern Europe.” Her next project is on the extraordinary case of the Slušovice Agricultural Cooperative and its predecessor, the Bat’a Shoe Factory.
Greg Castillo is Senior Lecturer in architectural history at the University of Sydney. His research—supported by fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Getty Center for Research, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture—examines the use of architecture and design as Cold War propaganda. His Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Midcentury Design will be published in 2009.
David Crowley is a historian working at the Royal College of Art in London. His specialist interests lie in the architecture and design of Eastern and Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. He is the author of Warsaw (2003) and co-editor, with Susan E. Reid, of Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc (2002). He curated Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970, a major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2008–9.
Catriona Kelly is Professor of Russian at Oxford University and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. Her recent publications include Refining Russia: Advice Literature, Polite Culture, and Gender from Catherine to Yeltsin (2001); Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero (2005), and Children’s World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890–1991 (2007). She is currently working on a book about cultural memory in Leningrad–St. Petersburg in the late Soviet and post-Soviet era, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council ( www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/russian/nationalism ). [End Page 999]
Elaine Kelly is Lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the reception of the canon in 19th- and 20th-century Germany. She has published articles on Johannes Brahms and the early-music revival and is currently writing a monograph exploring responses to romanticism in the German Democratic Republic.
György Péteri teaches in the Department of History and Classical Studies and is director of the Program on East European Cultures and Societies (PEECS) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. His latest book is Global Monetary Regime and National Central Banking: The Case of Hungary, 1921–1929 (2002). His current research interest is the everyday life of the elites and middle classes of state-socialist societies.
Susan E. Reid is Reader in Russian Visual Arts in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield. She has authored and edited publications on Russian and Soviet visual arts, gender, space, consumption, and material culture, with a focus on the post-Stalin era. With David Crowley, she co-edited Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc (2002). She is currently engaged in a study provisionally titled “Khrushchev Modern: Making Home and Becoming a Consumer in the Soviet 1960s.”
Barbara Walker teaches Russian and Soviet history at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research focus is on Russian intellectual elites of the 20th century. She published the book Maximilian Voloshin and the Russian Literary Circle: Culture and Survival in Revolutionary Times in 2005 and is currently writing a book on relations between Soviet human rights activists and U.S. journalists during the Cold War. [End Page 1000]
