Polina Popova
Graduate Student
PhD Candidate
History
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About
Polina has been a Ph.D. candidate since May of 2020.
Courses Taught:
Instructor:
- RUS 101 Beginner's Russian (UIC, Fall 2022)
- HIST 101 Western Civilization since XVI Century (UIC, Spring 2022)
- HIST 223-02 Russian and Soviet History, online, synchronous (Columbia College Chicago, Fall 2020)
- HIST 223-02 Russian and Soviet History (Columbia College Chicago, Fall 2016, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
Teaching Assistant:
- Japanese - Reading (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Spring of 2007)
- HIST 117 Understanding the Holocaust (UIC, Fall of 2015, Fall of 2016)
- HIST 105 Global Transformation and the Rise of the West Since 1000 (UIC, Spring of 2016, Spring of 2017)
- HIST 100 Western Civilization Part 1 (UIC, Fall 2017)
- HIST 272 China Since 1911 (UIC, Spring 2018)
- HIST 101 Western Civilization Part 2 (UIC, Fall 2018)
- HIST 255 History of Chicago (UIC, Spring 2019)
- HIST 213 Europe 1815-1914 (UIC, Fall 2019)
- HIST 271 Late Imperial China (UIC, Fall 2020)
Selected Publications
Notable Honors
Spring 2022, Open Research Laboratory Associateship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2020, Davis Graduate Student Grant, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
2019-2020, Princeton University Library Research Grant, Rare Book Division, Cotsen Fund
2013, 2014, Egan-Martinez Scholarship, DePaul University
2013, 2014, 2015, DePaul Student History Award for Scholastic Excellence, DePaul University
2013, DePaul Graduate Fellowship, DePaul University
2005, 2006, Scholarship, International Shinto Foundation
Education
M.A. in History from DePaul University (2015)
B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies from the Lomonosov Moscow State University (2007)
Selected Presentations
- DePaul University Student History Conference presentations (Chicago, 2013, 2014, and 2015)
- DePaul LAS Graduate Student Conference (Chicago, 2014)
- Midwest Slavic Conference (Ohio State University, 2017)
- Loyola University Graduate Student Conferences (Chicago, 2016 and 2017)
- 51st Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference (San Francisco, 2019)
- 53rd Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference (virtual, 2021)
- Midwest Russian History Workshop (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022)
- NESEEES 2022 Annual Conference (virtual, 2022)
- 54th Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference (Chicago, 2022)
- Princeton University Graduate Student Conference The Art of Self-Obsession? Ego-Documents and Auto-Fiction in Eastern Europe (Princeton, 2022)
- 55th Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Annual Conference (Philadelphia, 2022)
Research Currently in Progress
The Representation of Power in Soviet Children's Literature from the 1920s until 1953 in Biographies of Party Leaders
Research Interests:
Modern Russian and Soviet history, Modern Eastern European history, Women under Communist Regimes, Children's History, Children's Literature
Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits
Podcasts:
- New Books Network Russia and Eurasia, "Translating England into Russian," interview with Elena Goodwin, https://newbooksnetwork.com/translating-england-into-russian.
- New Books Network Russia and Eurasia, "Picturing the Page," interview with Megan Swift, https://newbooksnetwork.com/picturing-the-page
- New Books Network Russia and Eurasia, "Word Play," interview with Ainsley Morse, https://newbooksnetwork.com/word-play
- New Books Network Russia and Eurasia, "Seven Myths of The Russian Revolution," interview with Jonathan Daly and Leonid Trofimov, https://newbooksnetwork.com/seven-myths-of-the-russian-revolution