Francine Hirsch

"The Nuremberg Trials and the Making of the Soviet Union as an International Power"

Monday, April 13, 2009
Noon
Mershon Center for International Security Studies
1501 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43201

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Co-sponsored by the Departments of History and Slavic Studies.

Francine Hirsch is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her interests include Russian and Soviet history, modern European history, and comparative empires.

Hirsch is author of Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union (Cornell University Press, 2005), which won the Herbert Baxter Adams Book Prize of the American Historical Association (2007), the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (2006), and was co-winner of the Council for European Studies Book Award (2006).

Other publications include "Toward a Soviet Order of Things: The 1926 Census and the Making of the Soviet Union," in Categories and Contexts. Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography, ed. by S. Szreter, H. Sholkamy, and A. Dharmalingam (Oxford University Press, 2004); and "Getting to Know 'The Peoples of the USSR': Ethnographic Exhibits as Soviet Virtual Tourism, 1923-1934" (Slavic Review, Winter 2003).

She has a bachelor's degree from Cornell University, and master's and Ph.D. from Princeton.

Francine Hirsch
Associate Professor of History
University of Wisconsin-Madison