Claire Roosien
DGS of the European and Russian Studies MA program in 2024-25
Office Hours
Monday 2:30-4:30pm; Tuesday 3:30-4:30pm
Education:
AB, University of Chicago, 2010
AM, University of Chicago, 2014
PhD, University of Chicago, 2019
Interests:
Soviet history and culture, Central Asia, cultural history, environmental humanities, empire and colonialism, media studies
Selected Publications:
Book in Progress:
Socialism Mediated: The Making of Soviet Culture in Uzbekistan, forthcoming, Oxford University Press
Eurasian Sea Media (provisional title), manuscript in development
Peer-reviewed articles:
Winter 2025 “The Musical Teahouse: Yalla and the ‘East’ as Performance in Soviet Popular Culture,” Slavic Review (forthcoming)
Winter 2022 “I Dress in Silk and Velvet: Women, Textiles, and the Textile-Text in 1930s Uzbekistan,” Central Asian Survey
Summer 2021 “Not Just Tea-Drinking: Making the Teahouse Red in Soviet Uzbekistan, 1928-37,” Kritika
Other Publications:
2022 “Not By Archives Alone: The ‘Revolution’ in Soviet Central Asian Literary Studies,” Iranian Studies
2021 Response to Kirill Tomoff, “Uzbek Music’s Separate Path,” in Russian Review special online retrospective on approaches to Soviet culture since the 1940s.
Translations:
2024 Translations of Abdulla Qahhor, “Pomegranates” and “Earthquake”; and selected Zulfiya and Oydin poems, with introductions, in Tulips in Bloom: An Anthology of Modern Central Asian Literature, Palgrave Macmillan Press.
2023 “Two Poems About The City,” translations of “Baku” and “Two Moscows,” poetry by V. V. Mayakovsky, in Turkoslavia Journal.
2017 Translations of “Her Every Movement Sets the Tempo,” by Zulfiya, published in Revolution Every Day: A Calendar, ed. Diane Miliotes, Robert Bird, Christina Kiaer, and Zachary Cahill. (Chicago: Smart Museum of Art, 2017).
2016 Commentary on and translations of Uzbek women’s poetry, published in Alexander Street database Women and Social Movements in Modern Europe Since 1820.
Selected Honors and Awards:
2023 A. Whitney Griswold Faculty Research Fund Award
2022-23 Whitney Humanities Fellow
2019 Central Eurasian Studies Society Graduate Student Paper Award
2017-19 Hanna Holborn Gray (Mellon) Advanced Fellowship
2016 Fulbright-Hays DDRA
2016 Arnaldo Momigliano Dissertation Research Travel Grant
2016 Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Dissertation Research Grant (declined)
2015 University of Chicago Humanities Division Travel Grant
2012-15 University of Chicago Neubauer Family Fellowship
2012-15 Beinecke Scholar
2013 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) grant
2010-11 Fulbright US Student Program
Selected Courses Taught:
Graduate:
Socialist Realism and Its Legacies Eurasian Ecomedia
Undergraduate:
Introduction to Modern Central Asia
Russia Between Empire and Nation
Russian Culture
Culture and Everyday Life in Central Asia
Multicultural Soviet Literature
Professional Associations:
American Historical Association
Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies
Central Eurasian Studies Society
Modern Language Association
Working Languages:
Russian (near-native)
Uzbek (fluent)
Modern Turkish (reading, limited speaking)
Persian/ Tajik (reading, limited speaking)
Chuvash (rudimentary reading)
Koine Greek (rudimentary reading)