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“Edison’s Mistake: The American-Russian History of Synthetic Rubber,” forthcoming article
“Soviet-American Synthesis: Sergei Lebedev, Iwan Ostromislensky, and the transnational history of synthetic rubber,” Midwestern Slavic History Workshop, April 2024.
“Edison’s Mistake?: Soviet-American science and the transnational origins of synthetic rubber,” Paper given at 16th Annual Northern Illinois History Graduate Student Conference, April 2024.
“Soviet Sagiz: A story of biopiracy, Stalinist Flower Power, and the Global North in the 20th Century” Paper accepted but unable to present at “Disentangling Eurasia: Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and their Successors,” Tallinn University, Estonia, July 28-August 4, 2023.
“Soviet Flower Power: A Kazakh flower’s journey across the world,” Paper given at 15th Annual Northern Illinois History Graduate Student Conference, April 2023.
“Russia and the 20th Century Rubber Cartel” Paper accepted but unable to present at “Landscapes and Thoughtscapes of the Anthropocene” Conference, Tyumen University, Oct 2022.
“The Imperial Material,” Dissertation Chapter presented at Midwestern Russian History Workshop, April 2022.
“19th Century Russian Literature and Russian History,” Guest Lecture given to ENG 609, Creative Writing, Northern Illinois University, February 2022.
“Nothing, They Say, Survived the Dandelions: Soviet Science, Stalinist Agriculture, and the Global Political Economy of Rubber,” Paper given at Carleton University’s Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference, March 2021.
“The Convenient Chemistry of Potatoes, Vodka, and Oil: Soviet Synthetic Rubber in Soviet Environmental and Economic History,” Paper given at University of Tyumen’s “Transcending Nature: The Anthropocene and environmental history of Northern Eurasia” Summer School, July 2020.
“Building Socialism with Vodka and Oil: The Soviet Synthetic Rubber Industry,” Paper given at 12th Annual Northern Illinois History Graduate Student Conference, November 2019.
“The Soviet Rubber Industry - Moving Beyond ‘Plain Old Guesswork,’” Research Poster Presented at University of Wisconsin Center for Russian East European and Central Asia (CREECA) Summer Workshop, May 2019.
“The Clash at the Red Triangle: Soviet Art, Advertising, Worker Culture, and Econo mic Crises in the 1920s,” Paper given at 11th Annual Northern Illinois History Graduate Student Conference: November 2018.
“The Vicious Circle: American Diplomacy and Business with an Outlaw Nation,” Paper given to the 10th Annual Northern Illinois History Graduate Student Conference: November 2017.
Department of History and Institute for the Study of Environment, Sustainability, and Energy
