JR
Unit: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Department of History
Office location and address
1540 Jefferson Park Ave
Charlottesville,
Virginia
22903
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1997
A.B., Harvard University, 1989
A.B., Harvard University, 1989
Publications
Sponsored Awards
AS-HIST Stalin's Great Terror: A Documentary History of Soviet Perpetrators
Source: American Council of Learned Societies
July 01, 2013 – August 31, 2015
AS-HIST Kosicki ACLS New Faculty Fellow
Source: American Council of Learned Societies
July 01, 2012 – July 01, 2013
Courses
Special Topics in History.
Credits: 2–3
Consult the University Seminars web page at www.virginia.edu/provost/USEMS.html (copy and paste Web address into browser) for specific descriptions.
Credits: 3
Grounded in discussion and analysis of primary sources from twentieth-century genocides, key works of scholarship, and documentary films, this course endeavors to understand the complex but tragically recurring process whereby regimes from across the political spectrum implement policies of one-sided mass killing and transform ordinary people into genocidal killers.
Credits: 3
Explores the collapse of the Russian Empire and the rise of the Communist state. Emphasizes the social revolution, Stalinism and subsequent 'de-Stalinization,' national minorities, and the collapse of the Soviet regime.
Credits: 3
This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of general history.
Credits: 3
History of genocide and other forms of one-sided, state-sponsored mass killing in the twentieth century. Case studies include the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the mass killings that have taken place under Communist regimes (e.g., Stalin's USSR, Mao's China, Pol Pot's Cambodia).
Credits: 4
The major seminar is a small class (not more than 15 students) intended primarily but not exclusively for history majors who have completed two or more courses relevant to the topic of the seminar. The work of the seminar results primarily in the preparation of a substantial (ca. 25 pp. in standard format) research paper. Some restrictions and prerequisites apply to enrollment. See a history advisor or the director of undergraduate studies.
Credits: 3–4
Topics courses are small, discussion-oriented classes available to any student with sufficient background and interest in a particular field of historical study. Offered irregularly, they are open to majors or non-majors on an equal basis.
Credits: 3
Readings and discussion of the history of genocide and other forms of one-sided, state-sponsored mass killing in the twentieth century.
Credits: 3
Master's Essay Writing offers first-year doctoral students in History and those in the JD/MA program a workshop in which to discuss and develop an article-length work of original scholarship. Prerequisite: First-year history Ph.D. students or JD/MA students
Credits: 3
This course is a graduate-level adaptation of an undergraduate course in history. The graduate-level adaption requires additional research, readings, or other academic work established by the instructor beyond the undergraduate syllabus.
Credits: 3
Graduate study of the historiography of a particular topic or historical period, equivalent to a graduate-level colloquium course. Prerequisites: Approval of director of graduate studies or department chair.
Honors
ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship, 2013-15
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant, 2013-15
Center for International Studies Research Grant, 2013, 2012
College of Arts & Sciences Research Grant, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2005
Faculty Summer Research Grant, 2013, 2009, 2006, 2001
Sesquicentennial Fellowship, 2009, 2003
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship, 2002
IREX Individual Advanced Research Opportunities Fellowship, 2002
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard Univ., 1998-99