Assistant Professor of History

B.A. (1994) Duke University

Ph.D. (2007) Columbia University

 

Anna.Fishzon@williams.edu

Stetson H17

413.597.2364

 

Office Hours

Monday 1-2, Tuesday 10-11, and by appointment

 

Courses

HIST 141: Modernism, Leisure, and Subjectivity in Fin de Siècle Russia

HIST 227 : A Century of Revolutions: Europe in the Nineteenth Century

HIST 240 : Muscovy and the Russian Empire

HIST 241 : The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union

HIST 334 : The Fin de Siècle: Vienna – Paris – St. Petersburg

HIST 395: Fashioning Bodies: Dress, Consumption, and Gender from the Renaissance to the Present

HIST 439: Personality, Society, and Identity in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Russian Thought

Research

Modern Russian history; European cultural and intellectual history; consumer culture; performance and subjectivity

 

Selected Publications

“The Operatic Subject: Fandom, Authenticity, and the Commercialization of Culture in Late Imperial Russia.” (book manuscript in progress)