Faculty and Staff

Diane P. Koenker

Department of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
309 Gregory Hall
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL  61801

(217) 244-2083
fax (217) 333-2297
email: dkoenker@illinois.edu

Slavic Review
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
57 E. Armory Avenue
Champaign, IL  61820

217) 333-3621
fax (217) 333-3872
email: slavrev@uiuc.edu
http://www.econ.uiuc.edu/~slavrev

Current Positions

Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Editor, Slavic Review

Education

Ph.D. in History, University of Michigan, 1976
A.M. in Comparative Studies in History, University of Michigan, 1971
A.B. in History, Grinnell College, 1969

Professional Experience

Editor, Slavic Review, 1996-present
Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1988-present
Director, Russian and East European Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990-1996
Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986-1988
Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983-1986
Assistant to Associate Professor of History, Temple University, 1976-1983
Visiting Lecturer in History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975

PhD dissertations supervised: 11 completed, 3 in progress

Books and Selected Articles

Turizm:Leisure, Travel, and Nation Building in Russia, Eastern Europe, and the USSR (editor, with Anne E. Gorsuch), Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2006
Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2005
Revelations from the Russian Archives: Documents in English Translation (editor, with Ronald D. Bachman), Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1997
Notes of a Red Guard , by Eduard Dune (editor and translator, with S.A. Smith), Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois Press, 1993
Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 (with William G. Rosenberg), Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1989
Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War: Explorations in Social History  (editor, with William G. Rosenberg and Ronald Grigor Suny), Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University Press, 1989
Tret'ya Vserossiiskaya Konferentsiya Professional'nykh Soyuzov, 1917, Stenograficheskii otchet (editor, with introduction, notes, and index), Reprint of 1927 edition, London, Kraus-Thomson Organization, 1982
Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1981 (Studies of the Russian Institute, Columbia University); paper edition 1986

“The Proletarian Tourist in the 1930s: Between Mass Excursion and Mass Escape,” in Turizm:Leisure, Travel, and Nation Building in Russia, Eastern Europe, and the USSR, Anne E. Gorsuch and Diane P. Koenker, eds., Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 2006.
"Scripting the Revolutionary Worker Autobiography: Archetypes, Models, Inventions, and Markets," International Review of Social History, vol. 49, no. 3 (December 2004), 371-400.
"Fathers against Sons/Sons against Fathers: The Problem of Generations in the Early Soviet Workplace," Journal of Modern History 73 (December 2001): 781-810.
"Gazeta Trud  o trudovykh konfliktakh v Rossii v 1920-e gg." [The Newspaper Trud  on Labor Conflicts in Russia in the 1920s], in Trudovye konflikty v Sovetskoi Rossii: 1918-1928 gg., Iu. I. Kir'ianov, V. Rozenberg, and A.N. Sakharov, eds., Moscow, Editorial URSS, 1998, 169-79.
"Factory Tales: Narratives of Industrial Relations in the Transition to NEP," Russian Review, vol. 55, no. 3 (July 1996), 384-411.
"Men against Women on the Shop Floor in Early Soviet Russia: Gender and Class in the Socialist Workplace," American Historical Review, vol. 100, no. 5 (December 1995), 1438-64.
"Labor Relations in Socialist Russia: Class Values and Production Values in the Printers' Union, 1917-1921," in  Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity, Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Ronald G. Suny, eds., Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1994, 159-93
"Strikers in Revolution, Russia, 1917" (with William G. Rosenberg), in Strikes, Wars, and Revolutions in an International Perspective: Strike Waves in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Leopold H. Haimson and Charles Tilly, eds., Paris and Cambridge, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and Cambridge University Press, 1989, 167-96
"The Limits of Formal Protest: Worker Activism and Social Polarization in Petrograd and Moscow, 1917" (with William G. Rosenberg), American Historical Review, 92:2 (April 1987): 296-326
"Skilled Workers and the Strike Movement in Revolutionary Russia" (with William G. Rosenberg), Journal of Social History, vol. 19, no. 4 (summer 1986), 605-629
"Urbanization and Deurbanization in the Russian Revolution and Civil War," Journal of Modern History, vol. 57 (September 1985), 424-450.

Honors and Awards

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

January 2006