Dr. Deborah Field
Associate Professor, History
dfield@adrian.edu
517-264-3948

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Specialist in Modern Russian and European History

Special recognition:
Student Government Association Advising Award

Publications, exhibits, presentations:
Book:
Private Life and Communist Morality in Khrushchev’s Russia, Peter Lang, 2007.

Articles:
"Mothers and Fathers and the Problem of Selfishness in the Khrushchev Period" in Melanie Ilic, Lynne Attwood, Susan Reid, eds., Women in the Khrushchev Era, Palgrave Press, 2004.

"Irreconcilable Differences: Divorce and Conceptions of Private Life in the Khrushchev Era," The Russian Review 57 October 1998, reprinted in Ronald G. Suny, trans. and ed. Russia, the Soviet Union and the Successor States in the Twentieth Century: Interpretive Essays and Documents ,Oxford University Press, 2002.

Presentations:
"Noble Savages, Musical Spendthrifts and European Despots: Russian Travelers’ Views of American Slavery and African-American Views of Russian Serfdom." American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, 2009.

“Noble Savages and European Despots: Russian Views of American Slavery and
American Views of Russian Serfdom.”Adrian College Faculty Brownbag Series, 2008.

Panel discussant, "Sex and Family in the Post-War Soviet Union," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2006.

"Applying for Jobs at Small Colleges," University of Michigan History Department Jobs Colloquium, 2005.

"Individual Rights, Social Intervention and the Re-legalization of Abortion during the Khrushchev Era," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2003.

Other
Selected to participate in the Council of Independent Colleges/Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History summer seminar on Slave Narratives, June 2009