Robin Bisha, Ph.D.

rbisha@aol.com

• M.A., School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Expected May 2001.  Area of specialization:  Development communication.
• Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington.  May 1994.  Major field: Russian history.  Minor fields: Latin American history, Russian and East European Institute.
• M.A., Indiana University. December 1986. Major field: History.
• B.A., cum laude, University of South Florida, Tampa.  December 1983.  Major: History.

• “Zemfira, AIDS, and AIDS Prevention in Contemporary Russia,” Russian version, in a collection of essays edited by the Center for the Sociology of Culture, Kazan State University. (Forthcoming Kazan State University).
• "Marriage, Church, and Community in Eighteenth-Century St. Petersburg," in Gender in Eighteenth-Century Russia edited by Wendy Bartlett (Forthcoming).
• Russian Women: Experience and Expression. An Anthology of Sources. Co-edited with Jehanne Gheith, Christine Holden, and William Wagner. (Forthcoming Indiana University Press).
• “Reconstructing the Voice of a Noblewoman of the Time of Peter the Great: Daria Mikhailovna Menshikova,” Rethinking History 2:1 (1998).
• “Engendering 18^th-Century Russia,” commissioned by the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, January 1996.

• “Daybook of Varvara A. Tatishcheva,(1803-1827)” “The Interrogation of Anna Lukianova doch (1750),” an excerpt from the memoirs of Anna Evdokimovna Labzina (early 19^th century), and 7 other 18^th- and 19^th-century documents in Bisha, et al Russian Women: Experience and Expression (see above)
• "A Woman in a One-Room Apartment," by Liubov' Iunina from Russian.  In Helena Goscilo, ed., Lives in Transit (Ardis Press, 1995).
• "Crowning the Edifice: The Zemstvo, Local Self-Government, and the Constitutional Movement, 1864-1881," by F. A. Petrov.  In Ben Eklof, John Bushnell, and Larissa Zakharova, eds. Russia’s Great Reforms, 1855-1881 (Indiana University Press, 1994).

• "Dancing Candidates Yuk it out on the World Wide Web" (December 2000)
• "Have Computer Will Travel: A Russian Internet Diary" (Fall 2000)
• “Do You Know Your Human Rights?” (Summer 2000).

• “When All They Have Left Is Art,” Woodward Magazine (September 1999).
• “Honoring Our Legal Foremothers,” The Campbell Law Observer (May 1999).
• "Perestroika or Pineapple? Coming to Terms with the Free Market in the Soviet Union," The Ryder, no. 99-N, July 3-16, 1991, pp. 14-16.
• "Steel Sunflower Seeds: Art or Life in Leningrad," The Ryder, no. 99-Q, August 23-September 5, 1991, pp. 15-18.
• "Battle in the Bedroom: Sex in the Soviet Union," The Ryder, no. 99-T, October 4-17, 1991, pp. 10-14.

• "Radio and the Rule of Law in Contemporary Russia: A Comparison of Two Approaches." Annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. November 2000.
• "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Red: Change in Russia since World War II." University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina. October 2000.
• Zemfira, AIDS, and AIDS Prevention,” in Russian.  Center for Sociology of Culture, Kazan, Russia.  June 2000.
• “Learning the Rule of Law: Media Use and Abuse,” Piedmont Slavic Colloquium, Duke University.  April 2000.
• “Ethnic Conflict in the North Caucasus,” Appalachian State University, Boone, N.C.  April 2000.
• “Radio and the Rule of Law in Contemporary Russia,” Southern Conference in Slavic Studies.  March 2000.
• “Remembering Chaliapin in the Post-Soviet Press: A Biography in Transition,” presented at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.  November 1999.
• Chair and Commentary, “Patriotism, Political Economy, and the Uses of History in Early 19^th-Century Russia,” the annual convention of the Southern Conference in Slavic Studies, March 1999.
• “Herstory in Russia/NIS: Women’s History in the Post-Soviet Era,” roundtable participant, annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, September 1998.
• “Russian Women’s Biography in the Petrine Period,” Discussion Group on Women in Slavic Cultures, Summer Research Laboratory (SRL), University of Illinois, July 1998.
• “Fedor Chaliapin, Russian Culture, and the Politics of National Identity,” California State University at San Marcos, February 1998.
• “Russian Culture and National Identity,” University of Texas at El Paso, February 1998.
• “Issues in 18^th-Century Russian Women’s Studies,” Discussion Group in Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, Summer Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, June 1997.
• “In the Russia Kitchen: Food Preparation in Russia from the 17th-20th Century,” round table organizer and participant, annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November 1996.
• “Experience and Expression: Progress on the Anthology,” with Christine Holden, Discussion Group on Women in Slavic Cultures and Literatures, Summer Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, June 1996.
• “Dar’ia Mikhailovna Menshikova and Me,” Discussion Group in Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, SRL, June 1996.
• “The New Petrine Woman: Was There a Revolution for Women in Early Eighteenth-Century Russia?”  Berkshire Conference in Women’s History, June 1996.
• "Bigamy and State-Building in Peter the Great's Russia," annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, October 1995.
• "The Women's Perspective of Imperial Russian History," Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Valley State University, October 6, 1995.
• "Making Marriages in Eighteenth-Century Russia," Discussion Group in Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, SRL, June 1995.
• "In Their Own Voice:  Sources for Russian Women's History," panel discussion.  Duke University, October 24, 1994.
• "Buendivia: A Simulation Exercise for Latin American history courses," Teaching Colloquium, Kalamazoo College, October 10, 1994.
• "Teaching Russian Women's Feminisms," Annual Women's Studies convention of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, April 1994.
• "Sources for Russian Women's History," panel discussion.  Williams College, October 1993.
• "Russian Women and Russian History," panel discussion.  Duke University, February 1993.
• "Contemporary Women's Problems in the Commonwealth of Independent States," Ball State University.  February 20, 1992.
• "Women in Business in the Soviet Union," Russian and East European Institute Lecture Series, Indiana University.  November 1991.
• “Resources in Russian and East European Area Studies at Indiana University,” Annual Convention of Indiana Social Studies Teacher Association, Bloomington, Indiana.  April 1991.
• “Russian Nationalism in the Soviet Union Today,” for “Nationalism in the Soviet Union,” Indiana University, December 1990.
• "The Dowry in Urban Russian of the Great Reform Era." In Russian. Leningrad State University, Leningrad, USSR.  May 1990.
• "The Legal History of the Dowry in Imperial Russia." In Russian. Leningrad State University, Leningrad, USSR.  December 1989.

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