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Diane P Koenker

Chair, Professor of History
Russian, East European, and Eurasian

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Education

PhD, University of Michigan, 1976

BA, Grinnell College, History, Grinnell, Iowa

MA, University of Michigan, Comparative Studies in History, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Countries of Study

Russia, Europe

Courses Taught

  • HIST 450: European Working Class History
  • HIST 450: European Working Class History
  • HIST 502: Prob in Comparative History
  • HIST 596: Individual Research Project
  • REES 599: Thesis Research
  • REES 260: Survey of Russian History
  • HIST 560: Problems in Russian History

Research / Training Specializations

Twentieth-Century Russian and Soviet Social History; Comparative Working-Class History; Consumer Societies and Everyday Life; Leisure and Tourism

Distinctions / Awards

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2006 Mellon Faculty Fellowship, 2006 Chester Higby Prize of the Modern European Section of the American Historical Association, for best article in preceding two years in Journal of Modern History, 2003; Arnold O. Beckman Research Board Award, 1990-91, 2002-2003; Department of History George S. and Gladys W. Queen Excellence in Teaching Award in History, 1996-1997

Publications

Books

  • Koenker, Diane P. Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
  • Koenker, Diane P., and Ronald Bachman. Revelations from the Russian Archives: Documents in English Translation . Washington DC: Library of Congress , 1997.
  • Koenker, Diane P., and William G. Rosenberg. Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.
  • Koenker, Diane P., and S.A. Smith. Notes of a Red Guard . Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
  • Koenker, Diane. Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Book Contributions

  • Koenker, Diane. ""The Proletarian Tourist in the 1930s: Between Mass Excursion and Mass Escape"." Turizm: Leisure, Travel and Nation Building in Russia, Eastern Europe, and the USSR. Ed. Diane Koenker and Anne E. Gorsuch. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Edited Books

  • Koenker, Diane, and Anne E. Gorsuch. Turizm: Leisure, Travel and Nation Building in Russia, Eastern Europe, and the USSR. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Journal Articles

  • Koenker, Diane P. "Whose Right to Rest? Contesting the Family Vacation in the Postwar Soviet Union." Comparative Studies in Society and History 51.2 (2009): 401-425..
  • Koenker, Diane P. "Travel to Work, Travel to Play: On Russian Tourism, Travel, and Leisure." Slavic Review 62.4 (2003): 657-665.
  • Koenker, Diane P. "Fathers against Sons/Sons against Fathers: The Problem of Generations in the Early Soviet Workplace." Journal of Modern History 73 (2001): 781-810.
  • Koenker, Diane P. "Factory Tales: Narratives of Industrial Relations in the Transition to NEP." Russian Review 55.3 (1996): 384-411.
  • Koenker, Diane P. "Men against Women on the Shop Floor in Early Soviet Russia: Gender and Class in the Socialist Workplace." American Historical Review 100.5 (1995): 1438-64.