Deirdre
Harshman
Bio:
Deirdre Ruscitti Harshman is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, working on a dissertation project that explores the meaning of home in revolutionary Russia. She received a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in History, English Writing, and Russian and East European Studies, and attended St. Catherine’s College at Oxford University as part of their Visiting Student Programme. At the University of Illinois, she has taught courses on European history, urban studies, and utopian theory, and is interested in teaching courses on world history and literature and culture in historical context. She is very interested in working with colleagues on both academic questions (having run the Ralph T. Fisher Workshop on the topic of “The Soviet Home” in 2017) and pedagogical ones (having organized multiple teaching workshops for both graduate students and secondary school teachers through the University of Illinois’ Center for Historical Interpretation). She is also the Book Review Editor of The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review.
