Rebecca Friedman
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 2000
305-919-5839; friedmar@fiu.edu
Research interests:
Professor Friedman's research focuses on the history of masculinity in Russia. In her first book Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863 she examines behavior, loyalty and sociability among a generation of Russian university students that would reshape the Russian social and political landscape for decades to come. She is particularly interested in exploring the models of manhood these young men encountered and created during their three to four years of study, including the respectable servitor, drunken comrade, honorable fraternity member, romantic friend and loyal son. This project offers a picture of the complex processes through which gender ideologies were forged and negotiated in the nineteenth century. She also edited (with Barbara Clements and Dan Healy) the collection Russian Masculinities in History and Culture which is the first volume in English to focus on the growing field of Russian masculinity studies. More recently, she wrote an article on the body, asceticism and the Russian Cadet Corps.
She is currently working on a larger project tentatively entitled Domestic Interiors and Modern Imaginings: A Cultural History of the Russian Home. This book project -- supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Grant -- explores the physical realities and the ideological imaginings of the interior space of the Russian home from the second half of the nineteenth-century through the first third of the twentieth. Teaching Interests and Courses Taught. Professor Friedman's teaching interests include: Imperial Russian and Soviet gender, cultural, social history; European women's history; the history of gender and sexuality; material culture and the home; nationalism in East Central Europe; family history; war and revolution; memoir and memory in modern Europe; cultures of empire.
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