Mailing Address:
Box 116
Allegheny College
Meadville, PA 16335
Phone: (814) 332-4308
FAX: (814) 332-2710

Office: 204 Arter Hall
E-mail: kpinnow@allegheny.edu

Education

Columbia University, New York, NY, May 1998
   Ph.D., Department of History
   Dissertation: "Making Suicide Soviet: Medicine, Moral Statistics, and the Politics of Social Science in Bolshevik Russia, 1920-1930."

Duke University, Durham, NC, May 1987
   B.A., History and Russian

Other Educational and Research Experience

IREX Individual Advanced Research Grant, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, 1993-94

Leningrad State University, CIEE Russian Language Program, September 1987-January 1988

Current Research Interests

Book Project: The Invention of Soviet Society: Suicide and Social Knowledge in Bolshevik Russia, 1921-1929.

The History of Statistics and the "Technologies" of Modern Government

Medicine and Deviance

Publications

"Lives Out of Balance: The ‘Possible World’ of Soviet Suicide during the 1920s," in Madness and Madmen in Russian Culture, ed. Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky (forthcoming).

Review of Alla Ivanovna Chernykh, Stanovlenie rossii sovetskoi. 20-e gody v zerkale sotsiologii, Russian Review 63, no. 2 (April 2004): 341-2.

"Violence Against the Collective Self and the Problem of Social Integration in Early Bolshevik Russia," Kritika 4, no. 3 (Summer 2003): 653-77.

Review of Irina Paperno, Samoubiistvo kak kul’turnyi institut and Grigorii Chkhartishvili, Samoubiistvo i pisatel’, in Kritika 2, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 862-69.

"Cutting and Counting: Forensic Medicine as a Science of Society in Bolshevik Russia, 1920-29," in Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge and Practices, 1800-1950, ed. David L. Hoffmann and Yanni Kotsonis (Macmillan Press Ltd., 2000), pp. 115-137.

Review of Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921, ed. Edward Acton, William G. Rosenberg, and Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev, in Nationalities Papers, 27/3 (1999), pp. 539-541.

Select Presentations

"Bodies of Knowledge: Degeneration and Diagnosis in Early Soviet Suicide," presented at the 35th National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, Canada, November 22, 2003.

"Suicide and Social Diagnostics in Bolshevik Russia, 1921-1929," lecture presented at the University of Pittsburgh’ Center for Russian and East European Studies, February 25, 2003.

"NEP Revisited: New Perspectives on Abiding Issues," roundtable discussant at the 33rd National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., November 17, 2001.

"Putting the ‘Organism’ into Motion: Suicide and the Ideal of Mutual Surveillance in the Soviet Red Army," presented at the 32nd National Convention of The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Denver, Colorado, November 9, 2000.

"Tales From the Clinic: Using Medical Case Studies in Russian Cultural History," roundtable discussant at the 28th National Convention of The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, November 14, 1996.