Laura Engelstein

Professor Laura Engelstein is the Henry S. McNeil  Professor Emerita of Russian History at Yale University and Professor Emerita of History at Princeton University, where she taught for many years. Professor Engelstein specializes in the social and cultural history of late imperial Russia, with particular interest in the role of law, medicine, and the arts in public life, as well as gender, sexuality, and religion. Her publications include Moscow, 1905: Working-Class Organization and Political Conflict (1982), The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (1992), Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale (1999), and Slavophile Empire: Imperial Russia's Illiberal Path (2009). Co-edited Self and Story in Russian History (with Stephanie Sandler, 2000). She has received fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, the National Humanities Center, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the American Academy in Berlin. She is currently writing a history of the Russian Revolution and Civil War for Oxford University Press and preparing a translation of Andrzej Bobkowski, Szkice Piorkiem for Yale University Press.