Professor Emerita

Lesley A. Rimmel

Vita

• Education

  • Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut, B.A., cum Laude, 1977. Major: History

  • Leningrad State University, Leningrad, USSR, Spring 1978. Semester Russian Language Program (Council on International Educational Exchange).

  • Columbia University, M.A., 1981. Fields of specialization: Russian Area Studies and International Communication.

  • University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D., 1995. Fields of specialization: Modern Russian and European History.

  • Dissertation: “The Kirov Murder and Soviet Society: Propaganda and Popular Opinion in Leningrad, 1934-35.

• Teaching Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Russian, Central Asian, and Modern European History, Oklahoma State University, 1998-present.

  • Lecturer, Russian History (Eurasian Borderlands, 20th Century Russia), University of Pennsylvania, 1995-96.

  • Teaching Assistant, Russian History (Kievan Rus’-present), University of Pennsylvania, 1988-89, 1989-90.

  • Instructor, Soviet History, Lafayette College, Spring 1987.

  • Teaching Assistant, European History (1789-present), University of Pennsylvania, 1986-87.

• Publications

  • “Class and Nation at the Borderlands: Pleas for Soviet Citizenship during the Great Terror,” in Marsha Siefert, ed., Extending the Borders of Russian History: Essays in Honor of Alfred J. Rieber (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2003):333-352.

  • “A Microcosm of Terror, or Class Warfare on Leningrad: The Exile of ‘Alien Elements,’ March-April 1935,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 48 (2000), H 4:528-551.

  • “Pornography in Russia Today: Men’s Anxieties, Women’s Silences,” in Marcus C. Levitt and Andrei L. Toporkov, eds., Eros and Pornography in Russian Culture (Moscow: Ladomir Publishers, 1999):639-642.

  • “Svodki and Popular Opinion in Stalinist Leningrad,” Cahiers du Monde russe 40 (102), January-June 1999:217-234.

  • “Another Kind of Fear: The Kirov Murder and the End of Bread Rationing in Leningrad,” Slavic Review 56 (Fall 1997):481-499.

  • “Was Thomas Cromwell a Morean?” Moreana 19 (1982):5-24.

  • Editor, “International Underground Economic Systems,” Journal of Inernational Affairs 35 (1981.

  • Editor, “Soviet-American Competition in the Third World,” Journal of International Affairs 34 (1980-81).

• Honors, Grants and Awards

  • Arts and Sciences Summer Research Award (Oklahoma State University), 1999, 2003

  • Summer Associate, Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002 (postponed), 2003.

  • History Department Research Travel Grant (Oklahoma State University), 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004.

  • Dean’s Incentive Grant (Oklahoma State University), travel grant, 1999-2000, 2000-2001.

  • Oklahoma Humanities Council, Scholar Research Grant, 1999.

  • Arts and Sciences Research Travel Grant (Oklahoma State University), 1999.

  • Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (Stanford University), Post-Doctoral Grant, 1996-97.

  • American Council of Teachers of Russian Grant (for research in Russia), Fall 1993.

  • Fulbright-Hays Training Grant (for research in Russia), 1991-92.

  • International Research and Exchanges Board Grant (for research in Russia), 1991-92.

  • American Council of Teachers of Russian Grant (for research in Russia), 1991-92.

  • Alice Paul Award, Association of Women Faculty and Administrators (University of Pennsylvania) for service to women, 1991.

  • Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania), 1990-91.

  • Title VI Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (University of Pennsylvania), 1985-86, 1987-88.

  • Alice B. Stetten Fellowship (Columbia University), 1980-81.

  • International Fellow (Columbia University), 1980-81.

  • Andrew D. White Award in British and European History (Yale University), 1977.

  • Yale Summer Language Institute Fellowship, 1977.

  • German Book Award (Yale University), 1977.