Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2000.

Research Interests: 20th century Europe; Eastern and Central Europe; gender history; rights, democracy and citizenship; emotions and politics

Recent Publications:

• Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia , 1918-1950 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006).

• “The New Woman Question: Gender, Nation and Citizenship in the First Czechoslovak Republic” in Mark Cornwall and RJW Evans, eds., Czechoslovakia in a Nationalist and Fascist Europe 1918–1948 Proceedings of the British Academy 140 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 45-61.

• “Dumplings and Domesticity: Women, Collaboration and Resistance in the Protectorate of
  Bohemia and Moravia,” in Nancy Wingfield and Maria Bucur, eds., Gender and War in
  Twentieth Century Eastern Europe (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006), 95-110.

Current Projects:

My new book project, working title Traitors in Our Midst , examines how fear shaped political culture in both Eastern and Western Europe during the first decade of the Cold War.  I am also revising an article I wrote for the Health and Bodies seminar at the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women entitled “The Survey Project: Examining the Everyday Experiences of Rural Czech Women at the End of the Second World War” and planning an article on the need for a transnational approach to East European history.

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