MELISSA KIRSCHKE STOCKDALE
Brian E. and Sandra O’Brien Presidential Professor,
Associate Professor of History
University of Oklahoma
455 W. Lindsey St.
Norman, OK  73019
                                              (405) 325-6001; 310-6660   mstockdale@ou.edu

EDUCATION

1989      Ph.D.  History, Harvard University.
1981      M.A.   Soviet Area Studies, Harvard University.
1979      B.A.   History, University of Tulsa.

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

A. MONOGRAPHS

Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, 1880-1918, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996)

‘A Hard Country to Love.’ Patriotism and National Identity in Russia’s Great War, 1914-1918. (Expected completion: Summer 2008)

B. REFEREED ARTICLES,  BOOK CHAPTERS

“Russia in the First World War,” in Abbott Gleason, ed., A Companion to Russian History (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming 2007)
 
“United in Gratitude: Honoring Soldiers and Defining the Nation in World War I Russia,” Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, vol 7 no 3 (Summer 2006):459-85.

“‘My Death for the Motherland is Happiness:’ Women, Patriotism and Soldiering in Russia’s Great War, 1914-1917,” The American Historical Review, 109 no. 1 (February 2004): 78-116.

“Miliukov, Nationality, and National Identity,” in P. N. Miliukov: istorik, politik, diplomat. (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2000), pp. 275-287. 

“Russian Liberals and the Contours of Patriotism in the Great War,” in Russkii liberalizm. Istoricheskie sud’by i perspektivy. (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 1999), pp. 283-292.

"Liberalism and Democracy: The Constitutional Democratic Party,” in Anna Geifman, ed., Russia under the Last Tsar: Opposition and Subversion, 1894-1917, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1999), pp. 153-178

"The Idea of Development  in Miliukov's Historical Thought," in Thomas Sanders, ed., Imperial Russian Historiography (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1998), pp. 262-285.

"Politics, Morality, and Violence: Kadet Liberals and the Question of Terror, 1902-1911," Russian History, 22 (Winter 1995): 455-80.
					
C. OTHER PUBLICATIONS (selected)

Translation, with Abbott Gleason, of Nikita Lomagin, “The Soviet Union in the Second World War,” in Abbott Gleason ed., A Companion to Russian History (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming 2007)

“Maria ‘Yashka’ Bochkareva,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History (New York: Oxford USA, forthcoming December 2007)

“Pavel Miliukov,” in The Encyclopedia of Europe, 1789-1914 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005)

“The Constitutional Democratic Party,” in The Encyclopedia of Russian History (New York: MacMillan Reference USA, 2003)

"Pavel N. Miliukov," with I. Narskii, in Entsiklopediia Russkikh politicheskikh partii [Encyclopedia of Russian Political Parties] (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 1997), pp. 362-65

V. V. Shelokhaev, Shmuel Galai, Melissa Stockdale, editors, Konstitutsionno-Demokraticheskaia partiia. Protokoly tsentral'nogo komiteta. [The Constitutional-Democratic Party. Protocols of the Central Committee, 1905-1911 and 1919-1920] (Moscow: Progress-Akademika, 1994-96) Volumes one and four of a six-volume document series, jointly edited by a Russian scholar, an Israeli scholar, and myself. 
 
"Valia," Dialog (March 1993), 6-9. 

"V. I. Startsev, Vnutrenniaia politika pervogo vremennogo pravitel'stva." Review essay in Kritika (Winter-spring 1984), 91-101.

D.  BOOK REVIEWS

Gatrell, Peter, Russia’s First World War. A Social and Economic History (Harlow, England: Longman, 2005). Reviewed for Slavic Review, vol 65 no 4 (Winter 2006): 826-27	
			
Gaida, F. A. Liberal’naia oppozitsiia na putiakh k vlasti (1914 – vesna 1917 g.) (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2003).  Reviewed for Russian Review (2006) 

A. V. Miakushin, P.A. Tribunskii, Pavel Nikolaevich Miliukov: trudy i dni (1859-1904) (Riazan: NRII, 2001). Reviewed for Slavic Review (Fall 2003)	

		Abraham Ascher, P. A. Stolypin. The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001).  Reviewed for Russian History, vol 30 no 4 (Winter 2003):457-58.

David Wartenweiler, Civil Society and Academic Debate in Russia, 1905-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999). Reviewed for Russian History (Fall 2001)

Robert Byrnes,  V.O. Kliuchevskii. Historian of Russia (Bloomington: Univ. of Indiana Press, 1995). Reviewed for Slavic Review (Fall 1998).

E. PAPERS DELIVERED (selected)

“What Is a Fatherland?” Changing Conceptions of State and Nation in Russia, 1905-1953.” Invited paper presented at the conference “Place, Space, and Power in Modern Russian History,” Watson Institute, Brown University, March 24-25, 2006.

“‘Why We Fight.’ The Provisional Government and Selling the War to a Revolutionary Citizenry, 1917.” Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAA-SS), Salt Lake City, Utah, November 8, 2005.

“‘The Thanks of a Grateful Country.’ Remembering Soldiers and Defining the Nation in Russia’s Great War.” Invited paper presented at the conference “Citizenship, Nationality and the State in Russian and Soviet History,” Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, March 26-28, 2004.

“‘The Motherland Thanks You.’  Efforts to Honor Soldiers in World War One Russia.” Annual Convention of the AAA-SS, Toronto, November 24, 2003.

“Patriotic Culture in World War One Russia.” Invited paper, History of Russian Culture  lecture series, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, November 27, 2000.

“The Russian Women’s Battalions of Death, 1917.” Annual convention of the AAA-SS, St. Louis, Mo., November 1999.

“Russian Liberals and ‘Active Patriotism’ in World War One.” International Conference on Russian Liberalism, Moscow, May 26-28, 1998.

"Russian Liberals and the Search for a “Healthy” National Sentiment in the Great War.”  Annual convention of the AAA-SS, Boston, Mass., November 1996.

"Russian Liberals and the Question of Terror, 1905-1907." Annual convention of the AAA-SS, Phoenix, Arizona, November 1993.

"Retrieving the Personal. The Biography of Paul Miliukov." International Conference on Political Biography, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, April, 1992.

"Paul Miliukov and a Sociological Liberalism." IV World Slavic Congress, Harrogate, England, July 26, 1990.

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, PRIZES

A. EXTERNAL FUNDING

2005		American Philosophical Society, Franklin Grant (for research in Moscow, 2005)
2002-03	National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship (academic year)
2002		Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship, Russia (3 months, fall 2002)
2000		Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center, Short-Term Research Grant ( Washington, D.C., for March 2001)
1995		International Research and Exchange Board (IREX), Short-Term Travel Grant to Russia (summer). 
1992		John M. Olin Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship (a full year of support awarded to three historians, nationwide, each year). 
1992		Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard Russian Research Center (full year).
1991		IREX, Research Fellowship to the Soviet Union (fall). 	
1990		American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Grant for Travel to International Conferences (to present paper at IV Slavic World Congress, Harrogate, Eng.) 
1988		Bradley Foundation Graduate Fellowship program (dissertation writing)
1984-85   	Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship to the Soviet Union (academic year)
1984-85   	IREX, Graduate Student Fellowship to the Soviet Union (academic year).

B. INTERNAL FUNDING

2005		Faculty Enrichment Grant (for research at the Hoover Institute, fall 2005)
2004		O.U. Presidential International Travel Fellowship (to Moscow, for spring 2005)
2001		O.U. Research Council Grant (for 3 weeks’ research in St. Petersburg and Moscow)
1999		O.U. Research Council Grant and IPC travel money (summer conference and research travel to Moscow) 
1998		Sabbatical (spring semester)
Faculty Enrichment Grant (for archival work in Moscow, summer 1998.)
1997, ‘96	O.U. Research Council Grants (for research at Harvard, Stanford)
1994		O.U. Research Council Grant (for research travel to Library of Congress and Georgetown, March 1994). 
1993		O.U. Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship.
1991		O.U. Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship. 	
1990		O.U. Research Council Grant (for research travel to Hoover Institute Archive and Harvard University). 
1987      	Graduate Fellowship, Harvard Russian Research Center (dissertation writing)
1986      	Harvard History Department Grant for Research (summer research travel)

C.  AWARDS, PRIZES
2006		Brian E. and Sandra O’Brien Presidential Professor (a four-year named professorship, term to commence fall 2006)
		Phi Beta Kappa (alumna inductee, University of Tulsa, May 2006)

2005                Professor of the Year, O.U. College of Arts and Sciences.
2004		Heldt Prize, Best Article of 2004, Association of Women in Slavic Studies (for “My Death for the Motherland is Happiness...”)
1998		Amoco Foundation Good Teaching Award (2 awarded annually, to tenured and                              tenure-track faculty of the University of Oklahoma)
1989		Hoops Prize for Teaching (Harvard University, for direction of Senior Thesis)
1983		Danforth Center Certificate for Excellence in Teaching (Harvard University)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

A. COURSES (University of Oklahoma) 
		History 2803: Survey of Russian Civilization 
		History 3153: The Great War: The History of World War I.
		History 3500: Socialism and Capitalism 
		History 3793: Imperial Russia, 1689-1917
		History 3803: Era of Russian Revolutions
		History 3813: The Soviet Period, 1917-1991
		History 4793: Senior Seminar: Stalin and Stalinism	
		History 6460: Graduate Seminar: The Russian Revolution
 		History 6200: Graduate Seminar: Nations and Nationalism 

B. OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2002,2005	Instructor, Advanced Programs (IR Masters degree), Treebeek, Netherlands; Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany
1988-89          Instructor in History and Literature, Harvard University
1985-87, ‘82-84  Teaching Fellow in History, Harvard University:
		Junior Tutorial in Russian Intellectual History, 1760-1980 (year-long course)
		Sophomore Tutorial in European History (year-long course)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

A. UNIVERSITY AND PROFESSIONAL (selected)
2005-06	Outside Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Russian Literature, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
2005		Guest Participant, “The Russian Revolution” Global Forum (March 13, 2005), History International, The History Channel (one hour program)
2004		NEH Panelist, European History Fellowship Competition (judge for the 2005-06 awards), Washington, D.C.
1996-
2004		Director, Russian and East European Studies, School of International and
		Area Studies (SIAS), University of Oklahoma	
2004		Interviewer, O.U. Study Abroad Program; O.U. Student Fulbright Interviews
2003		Selection Committee, Irene Rothbaum Outstanding Assistant Professor Award
2001-02	Chair and Organizer, SIAS Symposium on Russia and Eastern Europe, “Re-Making Post-Communist Europe: Identity and Culture in Transition” (held Feb. 21-23, 2002)
2000-02	College of Arts and Science Committee in Support of Teaching and Research
2000, ‘01	Executive Committee (“Committee A”), SIAS
1998, 1999	Selection Committee, Kaleidoscope Distinguished Lecture  Series.
		Committee A, International Area Programs (IAP)
1996-2000       Advisory Committee on Program in International Area Studies (IPC)
1993-95	O. U. Honors Council.

B. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY (selected)
2006		Chair, Tenure Committee for Dr. Ray Canoy
2004		Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching
2003-04	Executive Committee (“Committee A”)
2001-2002	Member, Search Committee for Assistant Professor of Modern European History
2001		Chair, Tenure Committee for Dr. Sandie Holguin
2000		Co-chair, Tenure Committee for Dr. Roberta Magnusson
1995-97	Chair of Awards, Prizes, and Speakers Committee
1990-91	Faculty Adviser, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society (During my tenure as adviser our chapter of Phi Alpha Theta won its first national award.)

C.  PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, American Historical Association (AHA)          
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAA-SS)
Member, Association of Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS)