Claire Roosien is DGS of the European and Russian Studies MA program in 2024-25. If you are having any difficulty with the MA application portal due to a military conflict or natural disaster, or because of your citizenship or country of origin, please let Prof. Roosien know as soon as possible.
Education
AB, University of Chicago, 2010
AM, University of Chicago, 2014
PhD, University of Chicago, 2019
Research Interests
Soviet history and culture, Central Asia, cultural history, environmental humanities, empire and colonialism
Selected Publications
Book in Progress
Socialism Mediated: The Making of Soviet Mass Culture in Uzbekistan, manuscript in submission
Peer-reviewed articles
Forthcoming “The Musical Teahouse: Yalla and the ‘East’ as Performance in Soviet Popular Culture,” Slavic Review
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
Forthcoming 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
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)