Curriculum Vitae

Jehanne Gheith

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Education

MSW	UNC-Chapel Hill	2009
PhD	Stanford University, Stanford California	1992
MA in Russian Literature	Stanford University, Stanford California	1987
BA in Russian Literature (summa cum laude)	Boston University, Boston, MA	1983

Areas of Research

19th & 20th Century Literature, Women's & Gender Studies, and Comparative Women's Autobiography

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

DGS, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, August, 2010 - July, 2011

Chair of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2009

Director of the International Comparative Studies Program, July, 2002 - present

(Formerly Comparative Area Studies)

Associate Professor of Russian Literature, 1999 - present

Andrew W.Mellon Assistant Professor of Slavic Studies, 1995 - 1996

Assistant Professor of Russian Literature, 1992 - 1999

The Sydney Morning Herald

Translator, August 19, 1991 - September 03, 1991

Moscow Linguistics University

Resident Director, ACTR, Summer, 1991

Duties included overseeing the educational program, and administration

Visiting Positions

Scholar, Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies Program, University of Arizona, 1995

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

NCEEER Faculty Research Grant, NCEEER, May, 2009
Arts and Sciences Research Grant, Duke University, February, 2009
Arts Collaboration Grant, Duke University, October, 2008
Richard K. Lublin Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award, Duke University, March, 2006
Robertson Scholars Collaboration Grant, May, 2004
AWSS Award for Best Book in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Women's Studies, November, 2003
Dean's Leave (one semester), Duke University, Spring, 2003
SSRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship for work on book manuscript, Summer, 1995
George Lurcy Fellowship for dissertation research, 1990-1991
University Fellowship, Stanford University, 1985-1989
Alumni Award, 1983
Modern Foreign Languages Prize, 1983
Phi Beta Kappa, 1983
Russian Prize, 1983

Selected Recent Invited Talks

“Memory, Trauma, and the Gulag”, Burning Coal Theater, 18 December 2011  

"Memory and Trauma through Gulag Generations”, Duke University, October 06, 2011  

Reading from "Gulag Voices" (focus on mothers), Duke University, March 01, 2011  

“’Our Parents Weren’t Dissidents’: Multiple Legacies of the Gulag”, Havighurst Institute, Miami University, September 20, 2010  

“’I had to take my son and my mother into exile’: Experiences of parents and children in the Soviet Gulag”, Notre Dame University, February 25, 2010  

It's Impossible to Convey: Memory, Trauma, and the Gulag, April, 2008  

Stalin's Policies and Legacy, Harvard University, June 26, 2007  

"Naming Our Grief", Duke Community Bereavement Services, May 8-May 29  

“Stalin, the German Shepherd: Memory, Trauma, and the Gulag", Franklin Center, March 21, 2007  

"On Sibling Loss", UNC Chapel Hill, February 27, 2007  

'Collecting Crumbs': Memory, Rupture, and Repair for Children of the Gulag, Harvard University, 12 February 2007  

'What Are These Frozen Logs?' Mothers, Children, Memory in the Gulag, Bates College, 12 February 2007  

Memory, Trauma, and the Gulag, Duke University, 12 February 2007  

“It’s Difficult to Convey”: Issues in Oral History and the Gulag”, University of Wisconsin, Madison, February 01, 2007  

"A Will in A Diaper", UNC Greensboro, February 25, 2005  

In 2008, with Jane Hawkins (Music) and Jody McAuliffe (Theater Studies), I was awarded an Arts Collaboration Grant. We went on a research trip to Russia, filmed the interview subjects I have been working with (Gulag survivors), and visited a Gulag camp. To date the results of our collaboration include: a concert of music from the Gulag, a performance of a monologue based on one of my interviews, and a screening of footage of one of my interviewees at Scenes of Secrecy (Cultural Anthropology conference). In the summer of 2007, I gave a lecture at Harvard and, working with faculty and high school teachers helped there to develop high school curricula on the Stalin period. The fact that there are relatively few courses on Russia before students get to college is one of the reasons that enrollments in Slavic tend to be low. Working to develop curricula at an early stage, then, will be helpful in the long-term for Slavic Department enrollments. I have continued to be involved in this web project. I also continue to be third reader for ICS Honors Theses; a growing number (8 in 2009).

Publications (listed separately)

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