Susan Morrissey
Professor, History
School of Humanities
School of Humanities
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, History
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, History
B.A., Oberlin College, Russian and Soviet Studies
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, History
B.A., Oberlin College, Russian and Soviet Studies
University of California, Irvine
234 Murray Krieger Hall
Mail Code: 3275
Irvine, CA 92697
234 Murray Krieger Hall
Mail Code: 3275
Irvine, CA 92697
Research Interests
Russia and the World; Political Violence and Terrorism; History of Suicide; History of Emotion; Subjectivity, Gender and the Body; Mass Culture; Visual Culture
Academic Distinctions
British Academy Research Development Award, 2008-11
Membership, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton), 2004-05
Membership, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton), 2004-05
Publications
Monographs
Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories No. 9, Cambridge and New York, 2006, 384pp. Paperback edition: 2011.
Heralds of Revolution: Russian Students and the Mythologies of Radicalism. Oxford University Press: New York and Oxford, 1998, 288pp.
Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories No. 9, Cambridge and New York, 2006, 384pp. Paperback edition: 2011.
Heralds of Revolution: Russian Students and the Mythologies of Radicalism. Oxford University Press: New York and Oxford, 1998, 288pp.
Research Articles
"The War at Home: Photography, Political Violence, and Spectacle in the Russian Revolution of 1905," The Journal of Social History (forthcoming: 2023).
"The War at Home: Photography, Political Violence, and Spectacle in the Russian Revolution of 1905," The Journal of Social History (forthcoming: 2023).
“On Cool Reason and Hot-Blooded Impulses: Violence and the History of Emotion,” The Darker Angels of Our Nature: History, Violence, and the Steven Pinker Controversy, Mark Micale and Philip Dwyer, eds. (Bloomsbury Academic: London, 2021).
"Violence, Publicity, and Incitement in the Russian Revolution of 1905–7," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 21:3 (Summer 2020).
“Terrorism and Ressentiment in Revolutionary Russia,” Past and Present 246:1 (February 2020).
“Suicide,” Dostoevsky in Context, eds.: Deborah Martinsen and Olga Maiorova (Cambridge University Press: 2015).
“Subjects and Citizens, 1905-1917,” in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History, ed. Simon Dixon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Oxford Handbooks Online, 2013).
“Mapping Civilization: The Cultural Geography of Suicide Statistics in Russia,” Journal of Social History, Spring, 2013, 651-67.
“The ‘Apparel of Innocence’: Towards a Moral Economy of Terrorism in Late Imperial Russia,” The Journal of Modern History. 84:3 (2012), 607-42.
“Terrorism, Modernity, and the Question of Origins,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 12:1 (2011), 213-26.
“The Economy of Nerves: Health, Commercial Culture, and the Self in Late Imperial Russia,” Slavic Review no. 3 (2010), 645-75.
Co-editor and co-author of Introduction (with Polly Jones and Juliane Fürst). Special Issue: The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945-1964 in Slavonic and East European Review 86:2 (2008).
“Politics, Pathologies, and the ‘School Regime’: The Suicide of Children in Late Imperial Russia.” Special Issue: Nicolae Mihai, ed. Pour une histoire culturelle de la mort: Perspectives oust – et est – européennes in Xenopoliana: Buletinul Fundatiei Academice “A. D. Xenopol” din Iasi XV, 2007-2008, pp. 119-135.
“Politics and Patriotism: Petrograd Students during World War I,“ Kollegen – Kommilitonen – Kämpfer: Europäische Universitäten im Ersten Weltkrieg. Trude Maurer, ed. Steiner Verlag: 2006.
“Drinking to Death: Vodka, Suicide, and Religious Burial in Russia,” Past and Present 186:1 (2005).
“In the Name of Freedom: Autocracy, Serfdom, and Suicide in Russia,” Slavonic and East European Review 82:2 (2004).
“Patriarchy on Trial: Suicide, Discipline, and Governance in Imperial Russia,” The Journal of Modern History 75:1 (2003).
“From Radicalism to Patriotism? Petersburg Students between Two Revolutions, 1905-1917,” Revolutionary Russia, no. 2 (2000).
“Mezhdu radikalizmom i patriotizmom: Petrogradskie studenty vo vremia Pervoi Mirovoi Voiny,” Rossiia i Pervaia Mirovaia Voina (St. Petersburg, 1999).
“The Boundaries of Honor: St. Petersburg Students in Revolution and Everyday Life,” Europa Orientalis. Studi e Ricerche sui Paesi e le Culture dell'Est Europeo 16:2 (1997).
“Suicide and Civilization in Late Imperial Russia,“ Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 43:2 (1995).
"Violence, Publicity, and Incitement in the Russian Revolution of 1905–7," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 21:3 (Summer 2020).
“Terrorism and Ressentiment in Revolutionary Russia,” Past and Present 246:1 (February 2020).
“Suicide,” Dostoevsky in Context, eds.: Deborah Martinsen and Olga Maiorova (Cambridge University Press: 2015).
“Subjects and Citizens, 1905-1917,” in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Russian History, ed. Simon Dixon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, Oxford Handbooks Online, 2013).
“Mapping Civilization: The Cultural Geography of Suicide Statistics in Russia,” Journal of Social History, Spring, 2013, 651-67.
“The ‘Apparel of Innocence’: Towards a Moral Economy of Terrorism in Late Imperial Russia,” The Journal of Modern History. 84:3 (2012), 607-42.
“Terrorism, Modernity, and the Question of Origins,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. 12:1 (2011), 213-26.
“The Economy of Nerves: Health, Commercial Culture, and the Self in Late Imperial Russia,” Slavic Review no. 3 (2010), 645-75.
Co-editor and co-author of Introduction (with Polly Jones and Juliane Fürst). Special Issue: The Relaunch of the Soviet Project, 1945-1964 in Slavonic and East European Review 86:2 (2008).
“Politics, Pathologies, and the ‘School Regime’: The Suicide of Children in Late Imperial Russia.” Special Issue: Nicolae Mihai, ed. Pour une histoire culturelle de la mort: Perspectives oust – et est – européennes in Xenopoliana: Buletinul Fundatiei Academice “A. D. Xenopol” din Iasi XV, 2007-2008, pp. 119-135.
“Politics and Patriotism: Petrograd Students during World War I,“ Kollegen – Kommilitonen – Kämpfer: Europäische Universitäten im Ersten Weltkrieg. Trude Maurer, ed. Steiner Verlag: 2006.
“Drinking to Death: Vodka, Suicide, and Religious Burial in Russia,” Past and Present 186:1 (2005).
“In the Name of Freedom: Autocracy, Serfdom, and Suicide in Russia,” Slavonic and East European Review 82:2 (2004).
“Patriarchy on Trial: Suicide, Discipline, and Governance in Imperial Russia,” The Journal of Modern History 75:1 (2003).
“From Radicalism to Patriotism? Petersburg Students between Two Revolutions, 1905-1917,” Revolutionary Russia, no. 2 (2000).
“Mezhdu radikalizmom i patriotizmom: Petrogradskie studenty vo vremia Pervoi Mirovoi Voiny,” Rossiia i Pervaia Mirovaia Voina (St. Petersburg, 1999).
“The Boundaries of Honor: St. Petersburg Students in Revolution and Everyday Life,” Europa Orientalis. Studi e Ricerche sui Paesi e le Culture dell'Est Europeo 16:2 (1997).
“Suicide and Civilization in Late Imperial Russia,“ Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 43:2 (1995).
Other Experience
Co-Editor, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
2016—2021
2016—2021
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Last updated
07/03/2023
07/03/2023