Abstract

Professor Fitzpatrick is primarily a historian of modern Russia. Much of her work has focused on Soviet social and cultural history in the Stalin period, particularly everyday practices and social identity. She received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award in 2002 and the American Historical Association’s Award for Scholarly Distinction in 2012. She is past President of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (formerly AAASS ) and a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has authored, edited or co-edited 20 books, most recently On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (2015). A fourth, revised edition of her classic short history The Russian Revolution is forthcoming in September 2017.