CURRICULUM VITAE
Elaine MacKinnon
Associate Professor of History
PERSONAL DATA
Full Name: Elaine McClarnand MacKinnon
Office Address: Department of History, University of West Georgia,
Carrollton GA 30118
Telephone: Office (678) 839-6048
EDUCATION
B.A., Princeton University, 1983 (magna cum laude) Slavic Languages and Literature; Certificate in Russian Studies
Georgia NT-4 Secondary School Social Sciences Teaching Certificate, Armstrong State College, 1986
M.A., Emory University, 1990, Modern European History
Ph.D., Emory University, 1995, Modern European History
Dissertation title: “Soviet Historians and the Debates over the Origins of Stalinism, 1985-1991"
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
Translator and Editor, V.A. Kozlov, Mass Uprisings in the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the USSR, M.E. Sharpe, 2002
“Mikhail Gorbachev and Soviet History: Fighting the Past to Save the Future. A Mirror into a Failed Reformer,” under revision for the Carl Beck Papers, University of Pittsburgh Press
PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND REVIEW ESSAYS
“Writing History for Stalin: Isaak Izrailovich Mints and the Istoriia Grazhdanskoi Voiny,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 6, 1(Winter 2005): 5-54
“Glasnost and the Independent Press: Debates Over Stalinism During the Perestroika Period, 1985-1991 in S.M. Usmanov, ed., Sotsial’no-Gumanitarnye Nauki v Vysshey Shkole na Rubezhe XX-XXI: Problemy i Puti Resheniia (Birsk: Birsk State Pedagogical Institute, 2000), pp. 29-44.
“The Politics of History and Historical Revisionism: De-Stalinization and the Search for Identity in Gorbachev’s Russia, 1985-1991,” The History Teacher, Vol. 31, No. 2 (February 1998), pp. 153-171
Co-author with Steve Goodson, “Introduction” in Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. XXXVI, “The Impact of the Cold War on American Popular Culture,” April 1999
“The Debate Continues: Views on Stalinism from the Former Soviet Union,” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (1993), pp. 11-33
“The Human Factor in Soviet History,” A Review Essay of Dmitri Volkogonov, Autopsy for an Empire and Martin McCauley, Gorbachev, published by H-Russia, December 12, 1999
Review essay on Suzanne Sternthal, Gorbachev’s Reforms and Mark Galeotti, Gorbachev and His Revolution, Russian History, Vol. 25, Nos. 3-4 (Fall-Winter 1998), pp. 492-496
PUBLICATIONS: TRANSLATIONS
Translation from Russian to English of Pavel Polian, “Sovetskie Voennoplennye-Evrei–Pervye Zhertvy Kholokosta,” [Soviet Jewish POWs–The Holocaust’s First Victims], forthcoming in Kritika: : Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
Translation from Russian to English of Oleg Khlevnuik, Review Essay on Stalin’s Terror and Stalin’s “Loyal Executioner,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 4, 3 (Summer 2003), pp. 760-767
Translation from Russian to English of E.A. Osokina, “Lynne Viola and Peasant Rebels Under Stalin. Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance,” International Labor and Working-Class History, No. 54 (Fall 1998)
Translation from Russian to English of H.A. Osokina, “Soviet Workers and Rationing Norms, 1928-1935: Real or Illusory Privilege?” The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, Vol. 19, Nos. 1-3 (1992), pp. 53-70
PUBLICATIONS: ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:
“Joseph Stalin” in Shelton, Dinah, editor, Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, Volume II, Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005, pp. 996-998.
“Mikhail Suslov,” in James R. Millar, editor, Encyclopedia of Russian History (Macmillan Reference USA, 2003).
“Ivan P. Pavlov” in Neil Schlager, editor., Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery. 7 vols. Published by the Gale Group (Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2000), Volume 5: 1800-1899, p. 384.
“Il’ya I. Mechnikov,” in Neil Schlager, editor., Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery. 7 vols. Published by the Gale Group (Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2000), Volume 5: 1800-1899, pp. 366-67.
“Valery Polyakov” Neil Schlager, editor., Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery. 7 vols. Published by the Gale Group (Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2000), Volume 7: 1950–present, pp. 58-59.
“Vladimir Komarov,” in Neil Schlager, ed., Science and its Times. Published by the Gale Group (Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2000), Volume 7: 1950-present, p. 70.
“The Russian Civil War” in Jonathan F. Vance, ed., Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internees (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2000), pp. 258-259.
“Joseph Stalin,” Historic World Leaders, Vol. 3, Gale Research Inc., 1994, pp. 1218-1223
PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Lawrence R. Klein and Marshall Pomer, eds., The New Russia: Transition Gone Awry, forthcoming in Canadian Journal of History
Review of Samuel H. Baron and Cathy A. Frierson, eds, Adventures in Russian Historical Research: Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2003, forthcoming in Russian History/Histoire Russe
Review of James T. Andrews, Science for the Masses: The Bolshevik State, Public Science and the Popular Imagination in Russia, 1917-1934. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2003, in Russian History/Histoire Russe, Volume 31, No. 3 (Fall 2004): 344-345.
Review of Eric Kulavig, Dissent in the Years of Khrushchev: Nine Stories about Disobedient Russians, Russian Review, Volume 63, No. 2, 2004, pp. 355-356.
Review of Roger D. Markwick, Rewriting History in Soviet Russia. The Politics of Revisionist Historiography, 1956-1974, Europe-Asia Studies, No. 6, 2002, pp. 989-991
Review essay, “Dissecting Russian “Democracy”, Discussion of Alexander Lukin, The Political Culture of Russian ‘Democrats’ ( New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) published by H-Russia, 2001
“Rethinking ‘New Thinking,’ A Review of Robert D. English, Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War, America (May 28, 2001), pp. 25-26.
Review of Valery Tishkov, Ethnicity, Nationalism and Conflict In and After the Soviet Union, Canadian Journal of History, Vol. XXXV, August 2000, pp. 343-345.
“Setting the Record Straight,” A Review of Mikhail Gorbachev, My Country and the World, America, April 29, 2000, pp. 15-16
Review of Robert Strayer, Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse? (M.E. Sharpe, 1998), East-West Education, Vol. 19, Nos. 1 and 2 (1998-2000), pp. 162-165.
Review of Cynthia A. Ruder, Making History for Stalin: The Story of the Belomor Canal, Russian History, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Fall 1999), pp. 345-347.
Review of Robert Service, A History of Twentieth-Century Russia (Harvard University Press, 1998), published by H-Russia, January 1999
Review of Lynn D. Nelson and Irina Y. Kuzes, Radical Reform in Yeltsin’s Russia, Russian History, Volume 25, Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1998), pp. 217-219
Review of Kathleen Smith, Remembering Stalin’s Victims, Nationalities Papers, Vol. 25, No. 4 (December 1997), p. 793
Review of Daniel Rancour-Lafierre, The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering, Demokratizatsiya. The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 603-604
PUBLICATIONS: EDITORSHIPS
Co-Editor, Studies in the Social Sciences, “The Impact of the Cold War on American Popular Culture,” Volume XXXVI, May 1999
TEXTBOOK REVIEWS
Reviewer and consultant for the document reader Global Passages for Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Consultant and reviewer (involving writing a twenty-page critical review) of proposed textbook for world history published by Harcourt College Publishers, 2000-2001
Consultant for Revision of textbook A History of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Beyond, Summer 1996
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Grasping at the Whirlwind: Mikhail Gorbachev, F.W. De Klerk, and Adolfo Suárez as 20th Century Transitional Leaders, manuscript proposal
“Russia and the European Union,” article under revision for submission
Soviet Historians and the Debates over the Origins of Stalinism (1985-1991), under contract at The Edwin Mellon Press
“Gender, Memory, and Survival in the Stalinist Forced Labor Camps,” paper proposal for an international conference “The History and Legacy of the Gulag,” Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, October 19-22, 2006
PAPERS PRESENTED, SCHOLARLY COMMENTARIES AND CHAIRMANSHIPS OF CONFERENCE PANELS
Presented paper, “Grasping at the Whirlwind: Mikhail Gorbachev and F.W. De Klerk as Transitional Leaders,” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS) Annual Meeting, April 15, 2005
Presented paper, “Grasping at the Whirlwind: Mikhail Gorbachev and F.W. De Klerk as Transitional Leaders,”Annual Meeting of The Georgia Association of Historians, April 8, 2005
Presented paper “Russia and the European Union,” American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) National Convention, Toronto, November 23, 2004
Discussant for Panel “Language and National Identity,” SCSSAnnual Meeting, March 2002
Presented paper, “Russia and the European Union, 1991 to the Present,” Workshop on European Union Enlargement, Columbus State University, January 26, 2001
Chairman and Discussant for Panel, “Cooperation or Confrontation? Soviet Russia and the West, 1919-1922,” AAASS 32nd National Convention, Denver, Colorado, November 10, 2000
Discussant/Commentator for Panel “Biography and Modern Russian History,” VI International Council for Central and East European Studies World Congress, Tampere, Finland, July 31, 2000
Moderator for Panel “Science Within and Without,” Georgia Collegiate Honors Council Annual Meeting, Georgia College and State University, February 25-26, 2000
Presented paper, “Russia and the Idea of Europe,” European Enlargement Conference, November 4, 1999, Columbus, Georgia
Presented paper, “The Life Cycle of the Professional Slavicist–Concerns and Strategies”, AAASS 30th National Convention, September 24, 1998, Boca Raton, Florida
Presented paper, “Re-envisioning the Past: Isaac Mints and the Istoriia grazhdanskoi voiny,”SCSSAnnual Meeting, Durham, N.C., March 20, 1998
Presented paper, “Mikhail Gorbachev and Soviet History: A Revealing Mirror into a Failed Reformer,” presented at SCSS Annual Meeting, March 21, 1997
Presented paper, “Who Killed Communism: Stalin, Marxism-Leninism, or Russian History? An Assessment of Soviet Debates over the Origins of Stalinism, 1988-1991,” 27th AAASS National Convention, October 28, 1995
Presented paper, “Gorbachev and Stalin: Fighting the Past to Preserve the Present: Ideological Restructuring during Perestroika,” 26th AAASS National Convention, November 17-20, 1994
Presented paper, “The Treatment of Stalinism in the Soviet Independent Press, 1988-1991,” SCSS Annual Meeting, March 19, 1994
Presented paper, “Soviet Debates on the Origins of Stalinism, 1985-1991,” SCSS Annual Meeting, March 20, 1993
Presented paper, “Perestroichnaia istoriografiia ob istokakh Stalinizma” (delivered in Russian; trans. “The Origins of Stalinism: Soviet Historiography During the Period of Perestroika), Annual Scientific Session, Moscow State Pedagogical University in the name of Lenin, April 6, 1992
Presented paper, “Japanese Women,” Southern Political Science Conference, Savannah, Georgia, February 1987
Participant in Southern Seminar in Eurasian Studies, University of Georgia, December 6-7, 2004
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor of Russian and Soviet History, State University of West Georgia
Teach survey and upper level courses in Western Civilization, Russian and Soviet History, Russian and Soviet Women’s History, September 1995 to present
Professor, Institute for International Public Policy, Clark Atlanta University
Taught course entitled “Transition to Democracy and Market Economics in Russia, the NIS, and Eastern Europe,” Summer 1995
Teaching Assistant, Soviet Studies Program, Emory University, Fall 1993
Soviet Studies 100, “Soviet and Post-Soviet Systems: Evolution and Prospects,” involved lecturing, grading, and student consultations
Teaching Assistant, History Department, Emory University, Fall 1990
Fully in charge of one section of History 102, “Western Civilization from 1648 to the Present,” including all lectures, discussions, testing and grading
Savannah Country Day School, 1985-96
Chatham County Board of Education, Substitute Secondary Social Studies Teacher, 1985-1987
HONORS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Recipient, “No Child Left Behind” Title II Part A Higher Education IMPROVING TEACHER QUALITY Grant, for developing and implementing workshop “Infusing World History into the New Social Sciences Curriculum for Secondary School Teachers in Georgia”, 2004-2005
Awarded State University of West Georgia Learning Resources Faculty Research Grant, 2000-2001
Recipient, State University of West Georgia School of Education P-16 STEP Program Grant for developing and implementing a workshop series for high school teachers, “Infusing World History into the Curriculum, ” May 2000
Recipient, J. David Griffin Award for Superior Teaching, April 1999
Recipient, Distinguished Service Award, Disability Student Services, State University of West Georgia, 1997-98, 1999
Awarded State University of West Georgia Learning Resources Faculty Research Grant, 1997-98
Awarded Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship 1991-1992, 1992-1993, Spring Semester 1994, 1994-1995
Recipient, Short-term Grant for Research at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1993-1994
Honored by Special Proclamation from Chatham County Board of Commissioners, September 13, 1991
Awarded the 1991-1992 Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity Graduate Fellowship Award
Awarded 1991-1992 Grant-in-Aid of the Institute of International Education for Research Abroad
Selected to participate in the International Research and Exchanges Board Short-term Independent Research Program at the Institute of History, U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Fall 1991
Selected to participate in summer research program at the Moscow State Historical-Archival Institute, June 15-August 26, 1991
Associate, University of Illinois Summer Research Laboratory on Russia and Eastern Europe, 1990, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998
McLean Prize (best first-year graduate student), Department of History, Emory University, 1988
Magna Cum Laude, Princeton University, 1983
Nicholas Bachko Jr. Prize in Slavic Languages and Literature, 1982
Phi Alpha Theta
PRESENTATIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
Invited Presentation, Carrollton Great Decisions Series, “Russia and Putin: At the Crossroads of Democracy?”, February 10, 2005
Invited Presentation at Newnan High School: “Four Key Moments in Soviet History: Teaching Methodologies and Materials on the Russian Revolution, Stalinism, The Cold War, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union,” January 24, 2005
Delivered Guest lecture for Pat Campbell’s Global Studies class, “Why Russia Matters in the Post-Cold War World”, March 3, 2004
Served as Consultant and Translator for Delegation of Russian Businessmen and women, November 2004 (wrote three-page report for distribution among US sponsors)
Invited presentation on Vasilly Aksyonov’s Generations of Winter for Thursday evening Book Group at Carrollton Library, April 15, 2004
Served as translator for delegation of Russian educators visiting West Georgia, February 17, 2004
Presented talk, “The Art and Architecture of Russian Orthodoxy,” to Carrollton Art-Study Club, December 2001
Moderator for Great Decisions Lecture Series, “Russia Reexamined,” March 2002
Delivered Guest lecture for Elena Mustokova’s European Union class, “Contemporary History of the European Union”, January 2002
Invited by Dr. Glenn Novak to act as translator and participate in a filmed interview and panel discussion with a visiting Russian journalist, May 2001
Conducted workshop series for secondary school social studies teachers on “Infusing World History into the Secondary Curriculum,” May 6 and May 13, 2000
Guest Speaker, Paulding County Rotary Club, International, “Whither Russia, Why Putin, and Why Care?”, May 30, 2000
Consultant for the Princeton Women in Atlanta Focus Group, Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, October 23, 1999
Invited presentation, Carrollton Women’s Study Group, “Ukrainian History,” October 24, 1995.
Invited presentation, Emory University Center for Soviet, Post-Soviet, and East European Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series, “Historical Memory and Stalinism: Uses and Abuses of the Past,” April 23, 1996
Participant in the Carrollton Roundtable aired on university television, “Genocide and Ethno-nationalism in the Twentieth Century,” March 5, 1999
Certification, State University of West Georgia Writing Across the Curriculum,
February 28, 1998
Invited presentation, Newnan High History Club, “From the Steppes to the Siberian Wastelands: The Interaction of Geography and History in Russia’s Past,” January 13, 1998
Guest Speaker, Carrollton Elementary School, “Russian Culture,”October 9, 1997
Invited presentation, Emory University Soviet Studies 100, Soviet and Post-Soviet Systems, "Stalinist Collectivization and the Purges," February 5, 1997
“Russian History,” Newnan High School History Club, February 13, 1996
“Ukrainian History,” Carrollton Women’s Study Group, October 24, 1995
Invited presentation, West Georgia History Department, Fall Quarter History Colloquium, “The Uses and Abuses of History: Historical Memory, Joseph Stalin, and the Collapse of Communism in the Former USSR,” October 10, 1995
Guest lecturer on Soviet History, Emory University Senior University, September 26, 1995
Invited presentation, Emory University Soviet and East European Studies Brown Bag Series, “Moscow during the Coup: An Eyewitness to Revolution,” September 19, 1991
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Director of Graduate Studies for History Department, 2004-present
Member, Global Studies Committee, University of West Georgia
Coordinator of Departmental Advising Workshops, 2001-2004
Advisor, West Georgia History Club, 1996-2001
Interviewer and Evaluator for Advanced Academy Students Admission Process, 2002-present
Advisor, Freshman Center, State University of West Georgia, 1997–2002
Advisor, West Georgia College Bowl Team, 1997-98
Judge, College Bowl Competition, 1998 -1999
Judge for Social Sciences Competition for ARCH Student Research Competition, “The Big Night,” 2002, 2003
Advisor, West Georgia HOPE Scholarship Mentor Program
Participant, West Georgia American Cancer Relay for Life Team, April 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005
Member, University of West Georgia Committee on Graduate Studies, 2004-present
Member, Standing Committee of the Faculty Senate, Arts and Sciences Intercollegiate Athletic Activities 2004-present
Member, European Union Studies Certification Committee, 2000-present
Member, Standing Committee of the Faculty Senate, Student Services, State University of West Georgia, 1999-2002
Member, Standing Committee of the Faculty Senate, Institutional Studies and Planning, State University of West Georgia, 1996-98
Chairman of Ad-hoc Committee for Chair’s Evaluation, 2004-2005
Chairman, Budget Oversight Committee, History Department, 2002-2005
Chairman, Graduate Committee, History Department, 2000-2002 and 2004-present
Chair of Modern Germany History Department Search Committee, 2002-2003
Member, Tenure and Promotion Committee, History Department, 2001-2004
Member, Budget Oversight Committee, History Department, 1997-2000 and 2002-2005
Member, Search Committee for Position of Chair of History Department, 2000-2001
Member, Teacher Education Committee, History Department, 1998-present
Member, Library Committee, History Department, 1999-2001
Member. Graduate Studies Committee, History Department, 2000-2002
Member, Search Committee for Position of Chair of History Department, 1998-99
Member, Awards Committee, History Department, 1999-2002
Member, Merit Pay Committee, History Department, 1997-98
Member, African History Search Committee, History Department, 1996-97
Member, Scheduling Committee, History Department, 1996-98
Member, Colloquium Committee, History Department,1996-98
Ad hoc member, Russian History Search Committee, Emory University History Department, 1994-1995
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Chairman, Student Awards Committee, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, 2002-2003
Member, Student Paper Awards Committee, Southern Conference on Slavic Studies, 2000-2002
Judge, Georgia History Day, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004
Member of the Board, Carroll County Humane Society
Member Board of Trustees, Carroll County Historical Society, 1996-1999
Member Local Arrangements Committee, AHA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 1996
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
Southern Conference on Slavic Studies
Southeast World History Association
American Historical Association
Association of Women in Slavic Studies
LANGUAGES
Russian--excellent reading knowledge, good conversational skills
German--reading knowledge