KRISTY IRONSIDE. Curriculum vitae. Petrovka 12 Moscow, Russia Cell:

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1 KRISTY IRONSIDE Curriculum vitae Petrovka 12 Moscow, Russia Cell: Employment Postdoctoral Research Fellow, International Center for the History and Sociology of World War II and its Consequences, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (2014- present) Education PhD, University of Chicago, History (2014) Dissertation: The Value of a Ruble: A Social History of Money in Postwar Soviet Russia, Dissertation committee: Sheila Fitzpatrick (chair), Tara Zahra, Leora Auslander Examination fields: Modern Russian history (imperial/soviet), Central European history, Contemporary European history MA, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto, Area Studies (2007) BA hons., University College, University of Toronto, History (2005) Publications Refereed Journal Articles Rubles for Victory: The Social Dynamics of State Fundraising on the Soviet Home Front, in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Vol. 15, No. 4 (2014): Khrushchev s Cash-and-Goods Lotteries and the Turn to Positive Incentives, in The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2014): The Struggle between Soviet State and Market Prices during Wartime and Postwar Reconstruction (under review at Slavic Review) Between Fiscal, Ideological, and Social Dilemmas: The Soviet Ministry of Finance and the Bachelor Tax, (submitted to Europe-Asia Studies) 1

2 Reviews Review of Socialist Realist Science: Constructing Knowledge about Rural Life in the Soviet Union, , Dissertation Reviews (January 6, 2014). Available online: Works in Progress The Worker s Ruble: Money and the Pursuit of Communist Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union, (book manuscript) Selected Awards and Fellowships Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Grant, Georgian Language (2014) American Council of Learned Societies, Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2013) Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (2011) Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2006) Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Master s Scholarship (2005) Selected Presentations National Conferences The Delicate Balance Between Spending and Saving in 1950s Soviet Russia, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, San Antonio (November 21, 2014) We Want Meat, Milk and a Wage Increase! : The Public Response to Higher Retail Prices in 1962, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Boston (November 23, 2013) Enlisting the Means of the Masses: Soviet War Bond Campaigns, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, New Orleans (November 15, 2012) Winners and Losers: Cash-and-Goods Lotteries, , Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Washington D. C. (November 18, 2011) 2

3 Invited Presentations Between Postwar Fiscal and Social Dilemmas: The Tax on Bachelors, Single Persons and Small Families of the USSR, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University (March 6, 2015) In the Interests of the Government and the People : Soviet Mass Subscription Bonds, , Centre d histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, France (February 20, 2015) What Money Was (and What It Was Not Always) in Postwar Soviet Society, Séminaire L Univers des choses Soviétiques, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, France (February 19, 2015) Public Lectures Between Postwar Fiscal and Social Dilemmas: The Tax on Bachelors, Single Persons and Small Families of the USSR, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (February 26, 2015) Thematic Conferences Compulsory-Voluntary : Soviet State Bonds and the Boundary Between Taxes and Investments, The Global Politics of Public Debts From the Late 18 th Century, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK (June 11, 2015) Requests for Material Assistance at the Reception of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, , Séminaire sur les suppliques, Centre d'études franco-russe, Moscow, Russia (May 29, 2015) The Soviet Free Market at War, Occupations and Liberations in World War II: New Research on the Soviet Experience, Georgetown University (October 31, 2014) I beg you not to reject my plea : Asking the Soviet State for Money, , Cultures of Grievance in Eastern Europe & Eurasia, Princeton University (March 8, 2013) Workshops Selected participant, Debt and External Adjustment in the Interwar Period: Comparing the Past and the Present, Institute for New Economic Thinking s Young Scholars Initiative Workshop, Toronto, ON Canada (April 8-9, 2014) Every Ruble Counts: Minimum Wage Increases, Tax Breaks, and More Pay in Hand, Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop, University of Chicago (October 16, 2013) 3

4 Mass Subscription Bonds and the De-Stalinization of State Fundraising, Midwestern Russian History Workshop, Northwestern University (March 16, 2013) Socialism s Low Cost Guarantee: Retail Prices, Real Wages and the Purchasing Power of the Ruble, Modern European Workshop, University of Chicago (February 6, 2013) As Discussant From Peace, Land, Bread to the Dry Law : Food, Drink, and Revolution in the USSR, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Convention, Boston (2013) Teaching Experience As Instructor European Civilization II, University of Chicago (2013) Power, Identity, and Resistance, University of Chicago (2011 and 2013) As Teaching Assistant European Civilization I, University of Chicago (2013) Power, Identity, and Resistance, University of Chicago ( ) European Civilization II, University of Chicago (2011) Soviet History Survey, University of Chicago (2010) Languages English (native), Russian (fluent), French (fluent), Czech (intermediate), Georgian (beginner) Service Coordinator, Modern European History Workshop, University of Chicago ( ) Professional Affiliations Member, Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Member, American Historical Association 4

5 References Sheila Fitzpatrick Tara Zahra Leora Auslander Oleg Budnitskii 5