Princeton Weekly Bulletin April 5, 1999

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History professor to be next Behrman Fellow

	Laura Engelstein (photo by Denise Applewhite)

Laura Engelstein, professor of history, has been named Behrman Senior Fellow in the Humanities for a four-year term, 2000-04.

As Behrman fellow, she will spend half her time in the Humanities Council, creating and teaching courses in Humanistic Studies and other interdisciplinary programs. She intends to develop a series of new courses, beginning next spring with Ideology and Indignation: Protest Literature of Modern Europe. Another new seminar will focus on European diaries and memoirs, exploring issues of memory, war, gender, colonialism, ethnic diversity and prejudice.

A member of the Princeton faculty since 1985, Engelstein is a historian of modern Europe with special expertise in Russian history. She is the author of many articles and three books: Moscow, 1905: Working Class Organization and Political Conflict (1982), The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (1992) and Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folk Tale (1999). A graduate of City College of New York, she earned her PhD at Stanford and taught at Cornell before coming to Princeton. From 1992 to 1996 she directed the Program in Women's Studies.

Engelstein is the fourth fellow in the program created by a bequest of Howard T. Behrman.

 

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