Main Focus
- History of Russia/Soviet Union
- Gender History
- History of Violence
- History of Crime
- History of Political Economy
- Sociology of Work
- Labour History
- History of Emotions
Project
Curriculum Vitae
- Associate editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
- since 2018 research fellow at MPIB/HoE
- 2017 Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Moscow
- 2011/2012 Research Fellow at the International Research Center "re:work/Berlin"
- 2010 Dr. phil. (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
- 2008-2011 research fellow at the University of Bremen
- 2003-2008 research fellow at the Humbold-University Berlin
Selected Literature
Monograph
- Oberländer, Alexandra. Unerhörte Subjekte: Die Wahrnehmung sexueller Gewalt in Russland 1880-1910. Frankfurt/Main 2013.
Special issues
- Fluid Feelings (co-edited with Rukmini Barua), in L'Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 32, 2 (2021).
- Really Existing Soviet Subjects (co-edited with Maike Lehmann), in Soviet and Post-Soviet Review 48, 2 (2021).
- Family, Gender and (dis)Abled Bodies (co-edited with Maike Lehmann), in East European Politics, Society & Culture 34, 4 (2020).
Peer-reviewed articles
- “To be a woman is hard work”. The Changing Landscape of Gendered Emotions in the Late Soviet Union, in L'Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 32, 2 (2021): 79-96.
- Working Faces, Facing Work: Portraying Work(ers) in the Late Soviet Union, in Soviet and Post Soviet Review 48, 2 (2021): 211-234.
- Hatching Money: The Political Economy of Eggs in the Soviet 1960s, in Cahiers du monde russe 61, 1-2 (2020): 231-256.
- Cushy Work, Back-Breaking Leisure: Late Soviet Work Ethics Reconsidered, in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian Studies 18 (2017), 3: 569-590.
- Zur Politisierung sexueller Gewalt. Der Fall Marija Spiridonova im revolutionären Russland 1906, in L’Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 27 (2016), 2: 133-142.
- Shame and Modern Subjectivities: The Rape of Elizaveta Cheremnova in 1882, in Mark D. Steinberg/Valeria Sobol ed.), Interpreting Emotions in Russia and Eastern Europe. DeKalb 2011, pp. 82-101.
Articles
- Introduction "Fluid Feelings" (co-authored with Rukmini Barua), in L'Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 32, 2 (2021): 13-20.
- Introduction "Really Existing Soviet Subjects" (co-authored with Maike Lehmann), in Soviet and Post Soviet Review 48, 2 (2021): 164-170.
- Socialism to be embodied (co-authored with Maike Lehmann), in East European Politics, Society & Culture 34, 4 (2020): 802-816; online: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0888325420921917
- Totgesagte leben länger – Einmal von der Sowjetunion ins Silicon Valley und wieder zurück?. Eine Kulturgeschichte der Arbeit in der späten Sowjetunion, 1960-1980, in:Zeitgeschichte-online, März 2018, URL: https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/themen/totgesagte-leben-laenger-einmal-von-der-sowjetunion-ins-silicon-valley-und-wieder-zurueck
Reviews and review articles (selection)
- Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex. London et al: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, for L'Homme (forthcoming).
- Maksim Lebskii, Rabochii klass v SSSR: zhizn' v usloviiakh promyshlennogo paternalizma. Moskva: Gorizontal', 2021, for H-Soz-Kult (forthcoming).
- Provincializing Prostitution. Featured Review on Siobhán Hearne, Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in late Imperial Russia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), The Russian Review 81 (2022), 3: 556-560.
- Stefan J. Link, Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest over the Industrial Order (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020), H-Diplo Roundtable XXIII-28, 07 March 2022, URL: https://hdiplo.org/to/RT23-28.
- Juliane Fürst, Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland (Oxford:Oxford University Press, 2021), H-Soz-Kult, 11.08.2021; https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-95070
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Alexej Golubev, The Things of Life. Materiality in Late Soviet Russia (Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 2020), H-Soz-Kult, 31.3.2021
- Marsha Siefert (ed.), Labor in State-Socialist Europe, 1945-1989: Contributions to a History of Work (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2020), in Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft 69 (2021), 5: 486-488.
- Ethan Pollock; Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), in H-Soz-Kult, 15.09.2020, www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-29605
- Jeff Sahadeo, Voices from the Soviet Edge: Southern Migrants in Leningrad and Moscow (Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 2019), in: The Russian Review (2020).
- Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), in: H-Soz-Kult vom 22.10.2019, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-27948
- Lena Gautham, Recht und Ordnung: Mörder, Verräter, Unruhestifter vor spätzarischen Kriminalgerichten 1864-1917. Wiesbaden 2017, in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 67 (2019), 3, S. 515-519.
- Claire E. McCallum, The Fate of the New Man: Representing & Reconstructing Masculinity in Soviet Visual Culture, 1945-1965 (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018), in: Slavic Review 28 (2019), 2, S. 611-612.
- Beam Me Up/Out/Elsewhere, Tovarishch: Negotiating the Everyday in Late Socialism, in: Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian Studies 19 (2018), 2: 433-444.