Faculty and Staff
Eugene Avrutin
Employment
| 2006-present | Assistant Professor of Modern European Jewish History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2004-2006 | Visiting Assistant Professor of History/Jewish Studies, Colby College |
Education
| 1997-2004 | Ph.D. Russian and Jewish History, University of Michigan |
| 1998 | M.A. University of Michigan |
| 1999-2000 | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Summer 1998-99 | YIVO Institute/Columbia University |
| 1992-1996 | University of Texas at Austin |
Books
A Legible People: Identification Politics and Jewish Accommodation in Imperial Russia (in preparation).
Anna Pavlovna Vygodskaia, The Story of a Life: The Memoirs of an Ordinary Jewish Woman in the Russian Empire, ed. and tr. with Robert H. Greene (in preparation).
Articles and Book Chapters
"Racial Categories and the Politics of (Jewish) Difference in Late Imperial Russia," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, lead article for an Ex Tempore discussion of race (forthcoming, 2007).
"Returning to Judaism after the 1905 Law on Religious Freedom in Tsarist Russia," Slavic Review, Vol. 65, No. 1 (2006): 90-110.
“Kreshchenye evrei, etnicheskii konflikt, i politika povsednevnoi zhizni v Rossii vo vremia pervoi mirovoi voiny [Baptized Jews, Ethnic conflict, and the Politics of Everyday Life during Russia’s Great War],” in Mirovoi krizis 1914-1920 godov i sud’by vostochnoevropeiskogo evreistva [The World Crisis of 1914-1920 and the Fate of East European Jewry], edited by Oleg Budnitskii et al. (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2005).
“The Politics of Jewish Legibility: Documentation Practices and Reform during the reign of Nicholas I,” Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2 (winter 2005): 136-169.
“The Power of Documentation: Vital Statistics and Jewish Accommodation in Tsarist Russia,” Ab Imperio, No. 4 (2003): 271-300.
Reviews
“Visibility and Invisibility in Modern Jewish History: A Comment on The Jewish Century,” Ab Imperio, No. 1 (2005): 151-56.
Encylopedia Articles
“Nikolai Bukharin,” “Vladimir Lenin,” “Wassily Kandinsky,” Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, 1914-2000, edited by John Powell (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004).
Fellowships and Grants
| 2006-2007 | Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture Post-Doctoral Fellowship |
| Winter 2006 | Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Award |
| Summer 2004 | Department of History dissertation write-up fellowship, University of Michigan |
| 2003-2004 | Science Research Council (SSRC), dissertation write-up fellowship |
| Summer 1999-2003 | Judaic Studies Summer Research Grant, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of Michigan |
| Summer 2002 | Department of History Fellowship, University of Michigan |
| Fall 2002 | Summer Research and Travel Grant, Department of History, University of Michigan |
| 2001-2002 | Rakham Humanities Research Candidacy Fellowship, University of Michigan |
| 2001 | International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX): 9 month fellowship for dissertation research in Russia |
| 1999-2000 | Fulbright IIE student grant for Hebrew language training, as well as for working on an individual research project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Summer 1999 | Summer Research and Travel Grant, Department of History, University of Michigan |
| Summer 1999 | Summer Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) to study second year Yiddish at the YIVO Institute/Columbia University, Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), University of Michigan |
| Summer 1999 | Graduate Research and Internship Fellowship (GRIF) for preliminary dissertation research in St. Petersburg, Russia, CREES, University of Michigan |
| Winter 1999 | Ford Seminar: not for credit seminar in Social Sciences and Area Studies sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the International Institute of the University of Michigan for developing pre-dissertation proposals and dissertation prospectuses |
Academic Year FLAS to study second year Yiddish, CREES, University of Michigan
| Summer 1998 | Summer FLAS to study first year Yiddish at the YIVO Institute/Columbia University, CREES, University of Michigan |
| 1997-1998 | Department of History Fellowship, University of Michigan |
Awards and Recognition
| Fall 2003 | Selma and Albert Gorlin Award, Department of History, University of Michigan |
| 2002-2003 | Marshall Weinberg Outstanding Graduate Student Prize in Judaic Studies, University of Michigan |