Her new book project A
History of the Soviet: The Lingua Franca of Soviet Modernity sets out to
question a longstanding convention, in and outside academia, that has allowed
scholars to conflate in their work such basic cultural categories of modern
Russian history as the “Soviet,” the “Marxist,” the “proletarian,” and the
“socialist.” A History of the Soviet turns the pivotal term of modern Russian
history into a historical problematic and undertakes a near-century-long
(1900s-1980s) interdisciplinary study of cultural change at a time of social,
economic, and generational transformation.
It seeks to make possible a new cultural history of Russia in the twentieth
century as well as a rethinking of the history of totalitarianism,
transnational communism, and worldwide trafficking of the Soviet model.
Professor Krylova is a co-organizer with Tani Barlow (Rice University) of the 2012-2015 Duke-Rice International Faculty-Graduate Workshop Series “COMMUNIST LEGACIES AND POST-COMMUNIST REALITIES IN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES." Since 2009, she has been directing the History
Department Colloquium.
She also serves on the advisory board of the Research Triangle Seminar Series "History of the Military, War, and Society" and of the Carolina
Seminar "Russia and Its Empire, East and West" (Duke, UNC at
Chapel Hill).
She has delivered public talks on Soviet
and European experiences in World War II, Soviet Cold War culture, and peculiarities
of Russia’s capitalism and failing democracy.
In 2009-2010, she participated in a CBC six-hour documentary series on World War II, which was broadcasted in Canada and France in
May of 2010.
Awards and Honors
2011
Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association, awarded for the best first book in
European history.
2008-2009
Mellon Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop Fellowship, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke
University.
2006-2010
Hunt Family Assistant Professor of History, Duke University.
2005-2002
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies,
Harvard University.
1998-1999
Social Science Research Council Dissertation Write-up Grant.
1999 Stulman Graduate Student,
Department of History, Johns Hopkins University.
1997-1998 IREX Individual Advanced
Research Opportunities Fellowship.
1997-1998 Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
Award, Association for Women in Slavic Studies.
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