ISABEL A. TIRADO

telephone: 973-720-2319
fax: 973-720-3079 
tiradoi@wpunj.edu
EDUCATION
 
 
PhD University of California-Berkeley, May 1985, History.
Major: Late Modern Europe, Imperial Russia and the U.S.S.R.
Minor: Comparative Frontiers ( Russia, U.S., Latin America).
Thesis: Youth in Revolution: The Petrograd Komsomol, 1917-1920.
 
 
MA Hunter College, City University of New York. Russian Areas Studies, September 1973.
Thesis: The Political Philosophy of Evgeny Zamiatin.
 
 
BA Hunter College, CUNY. Double Major: History and Russian, 1969.

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

INSTRUCTION
 
1999-present Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, William Paterson University
 
 
1985-1999 Professor and Chair, History Department, William Paterson University, Russian and Soviet history; Western Civilization since 1648; women's history.
 
 
Spring 1985 Acting Instructor, U.C.-Berkeley, History Department. Seminar on the Russian Revolution.
 
 
1982-1984 Graduate Instructor, U.C.-Berkeley, History Department. Senior thesis seminar on topics in Russian history; survey of European history from the Enlightenment.
 
 
1971-1972 Lecturer. Lehman College, CUNY, Education Department. Required course: Hispanics in Urban Schools.

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Books Young Guard! The Petrograd Komsomol Organization, 1917-1920, 1988 Greenwood Press.

Articles

forthcoming "" Acta Slavica Japonica.

1996 "The Komsomol and Young Peasant Women: Recruitment Efforts in the Russian Village of the 1920s," Russian History/Histoire Russe..

1994 "Nietzschean Images in the Komsomol's Vanguardism," in Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and Adversary, edited by Bernice Rosenthal, Cambridge University Press.

1993 "The Village Voice: Women's Views of Themselves and Their World in Russian Chastushki of the 1920s," The Carl Beck Papers.

1993 "The Komsomol and Young Peasants: the Dilemma of Rural Expansion, 1921-1925," Slavic Review, v. 52, no. 3: 460-476.

September 1992 "The Revolution, Young Peasants, and the Komsomol's Anti-Religious Campaigns (1920-1928)," Canadian-American Slavic Studies, v. 26, nos. 1-3: 97-117.

March 1987 "The Socialist Youth Movement in Revolutionary Petrograd," Russian Review, v. 46:135-56.

December 1985 "Les Jeunesses socialistes de Petrograd," Cahiers Léon Trotsky, v. 24: 5-36.

October 1985 "El movimiento juvenil socialista en Petrogrado, 1917," Críticas de la economía política," v. 27-28: 193-226.

 

Book Reviews:

forthcoming Builders and Deserters. Students, State, and Community in Leningrad, 1917-1941 by Peter Konecny, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999. American Historical Review.

forthcoming Brovkin

Spring 1999 A History of Twentieth-Century Russia by Robert Service Harvard University Press, 1998. American Historical Review.

1996 Russian Peasant Women, edited by Beatrice Farnsworth and Lynne Viola, Oxford University Press, 1992. Slavic Review.

1996 Peasant Icons; Representations of Rural People in Late 19th Century Russia by Cathy Frierson, Oxford University Press, 1993. Slavic Review.

January 1994 New Directions in Soviet History, edited by Stephen White, Cambridge University Press, 1992. The Russian Review.

Fall 1993 Russia's Women; Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation, edited by Barbara Clements, Barbara Engel, and Christine Worobec, University of California Press, 1991. American Historical Review.

1990 Peasant Russia, Civil War: The Volga Countryside in Revolution, 1917-1921 by Orlando

Figes, Oxford University Press, 1989. The Historian.

June 1989 Poverty in the Soviet Union: The Life-styles of the Underprivileged in Recent Years by

Marvyn Matthews, Cambridge University Press, 1986. Journal of Modern History.

 

Work in Progre

book The Village Voice: Chastushki from the Russian Countryside, 1920-1927. Bilingual collection edited by Viktor Danilov and myself, translated by Marina Cunningham.

book Peasants into Soviets: The Komsomol in the Russian Village, 1921-1928.

article "The Komsomol and the Bright Socialist Future" to be published in Germany.

 

 

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

January 2000 "The Komsomol and the End of NEP" at the International Symposium of the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

October 1999 "Reconstructing Komsomol Identity" at Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

May 1999 "Letters from the Village: the Komsomol and the Bright Socialist Future," Conference on Soviet Youth in the Inter-War Era, Marburg, Germany.

September 1998 "Worker and Peasant Unrest in the Komsomol, 1926-1928," Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boca Raton.

November 1997 "Youth Activists in the Russian Countryside of the 1920s: Expectations and Disappointments," Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,

May 1992 "Women's Views of Themselves, the Family, and Their World in Soviet Chastushki," Kennan Institute, Washington D.C.

April 1992 "The World of Peasant Women in Russian Chastushki of the 1920s," Harriman Institute, Columbia University.

December 1991 "The Peasant Question and Regional Komsomol Politics in the 1920s," American Historical Association Annual Convention, Chicago.

November 1991 "Whither Russia? A Historian's Perspective." For a symposium on "The Vanishing Soviet Union," The College of Staten Island (CUNY).

November 1991 "The World Within and Without: Women's Views in Early Soviet Chastushki," AAASS Annual Convention, Miami.

April 1990 "Komsomol 20-kh godov," International Conference of Historians of Russia and the Soviet Union, Moscow.

December 1989 "The Communist Youth League and Young Women, 1917-1928," AHA Convention, S. F.

November 1989 "The Komsomol Organizes Young Peasants, 1921-28," AAASS Annual Convention, Chicago

November 1988 "The Komsomol's Antireligious Activities," AAASS Annual Convention, Honolulu.

June 1988 "The Komsomol's Vanguardism," Second Conference on Nietzsche in Russia, Fordham University.

April 1988 "Youth in Revolutionary Petrograd," Mid-Atlantic AAASS Convention.

October 1987 "Minority Students in the Humanities," Rutgers-Newark.

June 1987 "Teaching Race and Gender in the History of Western Civilization Survey," Rutgers.

November 1986 "Urban Revolution and Rural Youth," Faculty Roundtable, William Paterson College.

March 1986 "The Komsomol Comes of Age," Harriman Institute, Columbia University.

March 1986 "Women and the Russian Revolution," Bergen Community College.

 

 

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

1999 Foreign Visiting Fellow, Slavic Research Center, University of Hokkaido, Japan

1997 IREX Advanced Research Grant

1996 NEH Seminar: "The Nationalities Question in Russia: 18th-20th Centuries," Columbia University

1995 American Philosophical Society Research Grant

1993, 1994, 1995 IREX Short Term Travel Grant.

Fall 1992 IREX Collaborative Grant to invite the Russian academician, Viktor P. Danilov to the U.S. to work on a joint book, The Village Voice (tentative title).

Summer 1992 NEH Seminar: "The Woman Question in Western Thought, 1750-1950" under Karen Offen at Stanford University.

1991-92 National Council for Soviet and East European Research Fellowship.

1991-92 Senior Fellow, Harriman Institute, Columbia University.

Spring 1990 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship.

Spring 1990 IREX Senior Scholar Exchange, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Institute of History.

1988-1989 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

1985-86, 1988-89 Visiting Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University.

Summer 1986 NEH Seminar, "The Russian Revolution and Religion," under Bernice Rosenthal, Fordham University.

1984-1985 Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.

1983-1984 Dean's Fellowship, U.C.-Berkeley.

Summer 1982 IREX-Leningrad State University Exchange.

1980-1981 IREX Dissertation Grant.

1977-1979 Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship.

1975 Michael Gurevich Award in Russian History.

1967-1969 Dean's List, Hunter College.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1999-present Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, William Paterson University

1993-1999 Chair, History Department, William Paterson University

1997-1999 Chair, Council of Department Chairs, William Paterson University

1998, 1999 Selection Panel, Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowships

1990-91, 1992-93 History Department Executive Council.

1992-1993 Freshman Seminar instructor.

1993 Search Committee, Distinguished Visiting Hispanic Scholar.

1993 Search Committee, Academic Coordinator, Office of Minority Education.

Spring 1992 Campus-wide Sabbatical Committee.

Fall 1990 Local Arrangements Committee, American Historical Association.

Fall 1989 AHA meeting on the recruitment of Latinos in the historical profession.

1989-1991 Chair, Curriculum Committee, History Department.

Spring 1987 Search Committee for Associate Vice President, WPC.

1987-1989 Chair, Western Civilization Committee, History Department.

Spring 1987 Faculty advisor, Student Advisement Center, WPC.

1986-1987 New Jersey Humanities Grant for the Revision of the History of Western

Civilization Survey Course to include issues of race and gender.

1986-1987 Writing Across the Curriculum program.

1986-1987 Faculty mentor to minority students.

1986 Integrating Race and Gender in the Humanities' Curriculum,

Project sponsored by the New Jersey Endowment for the Humanities.

1985-1986 Curriculum and Activities Committee, History Department.

 

AFFILIATIONS

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

American Historical Association

Association of Women in Slavic Studies

Peasant Consortium