Anna Krylova, Associate Professor

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Anna Krylova, Associate Professor

Anna Krylova is an associate professor at Duke in the Department of History with a joint appointment in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. She has written on questions of historical and social theory, gender theory, socialist feminism, Western and Soviet Marxism, as well as modern Russia and challenges posed in envisioning a socialist alternative in the age of industrial, post-industrial, and post-colonial modernity. She is the author of Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front (Cambridge University Press, 2010), the winner of the 2011 AHA Herbert Baxter Adams Prize.

She is currently working on two book projects. One, The Grip of History: Essays in Historical Criticism and Social Theory, is a collection of essays that rethinks American historians’ encounter with the poststructuralist intellectual project and explores the analytical and political price the discipline has paid for the poststructuralist upgrade of its analytics. The other is a new cultural history of Soviet Russia, provisionally titled Imagining Socialism in the Soviet Century. Her most recent publications include “Marx and the Many Lives of Marxism in 20th the 21st Centuries,” Social History, May 2024; “Foucault, Poststructuralism, and the Fixed “Openness of History,” Modern Intellectual History, May 2024; and “Agency and History,” American Historical Review, June 2023; “Imagining Socialism in the Soviet Century,” Social History, August 2017; “Legacies of the Cold War and the Future of Gender in Feminist Histories of Socialism,” in The Routledge International Handbook to Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia (2021); and “Gender Binary and the Limits of Poststructuralist Method,” Gender and History, August 2016. Many of her publications are accessible at https://duke.academia.edu/AnnaKrylova.

She has been Fellow at the National Humanities Center; George Kennan Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; Fellow at Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, and visiting scholar at the Institute of Eastern European History at Tubingen University (Germany). Her work has been supported by the Mellon Faculty Book Manuscript Workshop Fellowship, SSRC, and IREX.

Degrees:

Ph.D., History, 2001, Johns Hopkins University.

M.A., History, 1998, Johns Hopkins University.

M.A., Political Science, 1995, Johns Hopkins University.

Awards and Honors

Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2013-2014.

Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Spring Term, 2013.

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.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	209 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	+1 919 684 3014
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2024):

HISTORY 282.01, END OF RUSSIAN SOCIALISM Synopsis
Friedl Bdg 107, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
(also cross-listed as RUSSIAN 352.01)
HISTORY 790S-13.01, METHODS & THEORY (TOP) Synopsis
Class Bldg 229, Th 04:40 PM-07:10 PM

Office Hours:: By appointment

Education:

Ph.D.	Johns Hopkins University	2000
PhD	Johns Hopkins University	2001
MA in History	The Johns Hopkins University	1998
M.A.	Johns Hopkins University	1998
MA in Political Science	The Johns Hopkins University	1995

Specialties:: Cultural History
Intellectual History
Gender
European and Russia
Global Transnational History

Research Interests:

Anna Krylova works on twentieth-century Russia and the challenges posed in envisioning and building a socialist alternative in the age of industrial and post-industrial modernity and globalization. Questions of historical theory, gender theory, and practice in contemporary historical writing propel her work, with a special focus on methodological and historiographical problematics in gender history and Western scholarship on the Soviet Union. She is the author of Soviet Women in Combat: A History of Violence on the Eastern Front (Cambridge University Press, 2010) which was awarded the 2011 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association. Her current interests lie in gender theory and methodology, more specifically, in the critical interrogation of the theorization and making of the gender category since the 1970s. She is preparing a collected volume, The Practice of History in the Twenty-First Century, featuring essays accessing of what has happened to the practice of history after the theoretical and epistemological turmoil of the 1980s-1990s.

Her new book project, “Socialist Imaginaries of the Soviet Century,” engages the current academic and popular conversation about social justice, economic responsibility, and individual self-realization in modern industrial societies that has been informed by an explicit and implicit comparison between capitalist and socialist modernities of the 20th century. This conversation has been dependent on historical analysis of Soviet socialism which has been worked out largely in relation to the Soviet Union’s experience with Stalinism and its two preceding decades. This book project aims at disrupting the dominant vision of Soviet socialism as conceptually reducible to the first half of the 20th century. It aims to make possible a new cultural history of Soviet Russia by historicizing the ways in which normative conceptions of socialist society, sociality and self evolved in Russia and the Soviet Union from the First Russian Revolution into the postwar and post-Stalinist years.