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• 19th & 20th Century Literature, Gulag, Women's & Gender Studies, Cultural Memory

• NCEEER Faculty Research Grant, NCEEER, May, 2009
  NCEEER (National Council for Eurasian and East European Research) provides competitive grants in a number of areas. My award is for work on my book manuscript "A Dog Named Stalin: Memory, Trauma, and the Gulag."
• Arts and Sciences Research Grant, Duke University, 2009
  An award of $3000 to support my research with Gulag survivors.
• Arts Collaboration Grant, Duke University, October, 2008
  An Arts Collaboration Grant for work with Gulag Survivors: to myself, Jane Hawkins (Music) and Jody McAuliffe (Theater Studies)
• Richard K. Lublin Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award, Duke University, 2006
• Robertson Scholars Collaboration Grant, May, 2004
  For "Mistress, Peasant, Revolutionary: Women on the Nineteeth-Century Russian Estate" with Beth Holmgren (Slavic, UNC)
• AWSS Award for Best Book in Slavic/East European/Eurasian Women's Studies, November, 2003
  For "A History of Women's Writing in Russia"
• 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

Lectures

  Invited Lectures:

• Do these doctors think they are God?: Russian Hospice--a prelimary report, Duke Hospice, July 13, 2013
• "Voices from the Gulag: Memory and Trauma in the Gulag", University of the South, Sewanee, March 05, 2012
• Voices from the Gulag: Memory and Trauma in the Gulag, University of the South, Sewanee, 5 March 2012
• “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

• AAASS, Washington, DC, 12 February 2007

Publications

   Books and Monographs

1. Gheith, J. "Gulag Voices."  January, 2011
2. Gheith, J. "Finding the middle ground: Krestovskii, Tur, and the power of ambivalence in nineteenth century Russian women's prose."  December, 2004: 1-302.
3. Gheith, J. "Finding the Middle Ground: Evgeniia Tur, V. Krestovskii, and the Power of Ambivalence in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Prose."  Northwestern University Press, 2004
4. Gheith, J. "History of Women’s Writing in Russia."  Ed. Barker, A; Gheith, J Cambridge University Press, 2002 Awarded the Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic/Eurasian Women's Studies, November 2003
5. Gheith, J. "Russian Women, 1698-1917: Experience and Expression. An Anthology of Sources."  Ed. Bisha, R; Gheith, J; Holden, C; Wagner, W Indiana University Press, 2002
6. Gheith, J. "An Improper Profession: Women, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia."  Ed. Norton, BT; Gheith, J Duke University Press, 2001 Nominated for a Heldt prize
7. J. Gheith and K. Jolluck, eds.. "Gulag Voices: Oral Histories of Soviet Incarceration and Exile."  Palgrave MacMillan,

   Papers Published

1. Fowler, M; Gheith, J. "A Therapeutic Welcome: Mental Health within the Reality Ministries Disability Community." Journal of Disability and Religion 27.2 (January, 2023): 358-382.
2. Goss, KA. "Introduction." 10 (January, 2014): 265-270.
3. Gheith, J. "Reflections on Sibling Grief." Epilogue (Fall, 2005).
4. Izatt, JA; Fujimoto, JG; Tuchin, VV. "Introduction." 8213 (January, 2012): xv-xvii.
5. Gheith, J. "Article on Gulag Research." Encompass (2012). (Spring, 2012. Although this is a student-run journal, it is important for me that Duke students share in my research on the Gulag, so I inlcude it here.)
6. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "Why Did He Ruin Our Happiness?: Letter from Franciszka Dul to Her Husband, Stanisław Dul." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 215-217.
7. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "From Privilege to Exile: Interview with Valeriia Mikhailovna Gerlin." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 151-167.
8. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "Three Death Certificates but No Grave: Interview with Boris Israelovich/Srul’evich Faifman." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 117-131.
9. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "Bridging Separate Worlds: Interview with Feliks Arkadievich Serebrov." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 169-189.
10. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "Surrounded by Death: Interview with Giuli Fedorovna Tsivirko." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 87-97.
11. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "Enumerated Units: Interview with Giuzel Gumerovna Ibragimova." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 133-147.
12. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "A Mother in Exile: Interview with Larisa Mikhailovna Lappo-Danilevskaia." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 69-86.
13. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "It Wasn’t Life: Interview with Nina Ivanovna Rodina." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 99-114.
14. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "A Life in the Forest: Interview with Sira Stepanovna Balashina." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 17-28.
15. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "Introduction." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 1-14.
16. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "Under Two Dictators: Interview with Abliaziz Umerovich Ramazanov." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 47-66.
17. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "Soviet but German: Interview with Robert Avgustovich lanke." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 29-46.
18. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "Fare Thee Well: Excerpts from the Camp Correspondence of Valentin Tikhonovich Muravskii and Rozalia Iosifovna Muravskaia." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 219-222.
19. Gheith, JM; Jolluck, KR. "We Will Surely Die: Letter from Irena Grześkowiak to Her Father, Andrzej." Palgrave Studies in Oral History (January, 2011): 211-213.
20. Gheith, J. "Not the Atom Bomb? Interviewing/Filming Gulag Survivors in a Culture of Dangerous Memory." Kritika (2011).
21. Davidson, CN. "Foreword." Understanding Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaia’s Short Story Collection: An Album: Groups and Portraits” (December, 2010): xvii-xviii.
22. Gheith, J. ""‘It’s Difficult to Convey’: Oral History and Memories of Gulag Survivors"." Gulag Studies 2-3 (November, 2010).
23. J. Gheith. "“’The doctors said I was normal’: Trauma, the non-narrative, and the Gulag.”." To be published in Slavic Review (2011?). (This should come out in 2013.)
24. Gheith, J. "“’The doctors said I was normal’: Trauma, the non-narrative, and the Gulag”." Slavic Review (2010).
25. Gheith, J. ""’It’s Hard to Convey’: Oral History and Memories of Gulag Survivors." Kaiken Takana oli Pelko (January, 2009): 99-116.
26. Gheith, J. "’Collecting Crumbs’: Rupture and Repair for Children of the Gulag." The Gulag: History and Legacy (2009).
27. Gheith, J. "’Trudno peredat’: Traumatic Memory and the Gulag." Gulag Studies (2009).
28. Gheith, J. ""Solovki"; "Legacy of the Gulag"." on-line "Stalin Project" (2008).
29. Gheith, J. "’I Never Talked...’: Enforced Silence, Non-Narrative Memory, and the Gulag." Mortality 12.2 (May, 2007): 159-175.
30. Gheith, J. "Painting and words: the art of sisterhood." The Sisters Khvoshchinskaia (2006). (forthcoming)
31. Gheith, J. "Tur/Grot correspondence." Russian Women: Experience and Expression (2006).
32. Skinner, CS; Kobrin, SC; Campbell, MK; Sutherland, L. "New technologies and their influence on existing interventions." Patient Treatment Adherence: Concepts, Interventions, and Measurement (August, 2005): 491-517.
33. Gheith, J. "Women and gender in 18th-century Russia.." RUSSIAN REVIEW 64.1 (January, 2005): 112-113.
34. Gheith, J. "Evgeniia Tur." Encyclopedia of Russian History (2004).
35. with Gheith, J; Holmgren, B. "Art and Prostokvasha: Avdotia Panaeva’s Work." The Russian Memoir: History and Literature (2003).
36. with Adele Barker. "Introduction." A History of Women's Writing in Russia (2002).
37. Gheith, J. ""Women of the Thirties and Fifties: A Reperiodization"." A History of Women’s Writing in Russia (2002).
38. Gheith, J. "Karolina Pavlova." Russian Review (2002).
39. Gheith, J. "Essays on Karolina Pavlova." RUSSIAN REVIEW 61.4 (2002): 631-632.
40. "Introduction." An Improper Profession: Women, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia (2001).
41. Gheith, J. "Redefining the Perceptible: The Journalism(s) of Avdot’ia Panaeva and Evgeniia Tur." An Improper Profession: Women, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia (2001).
42. Gheith, J. "Till My Tale Is Told: Women’s Memoirs of the Gulag." Canadian-American Slavic Studies (2001).
43. Gheith, J. "Nadezhda Durova." Dictionary of Literary Biography (1999).
44. Gheith, J. "Evgeniia Tur and the Crimean Letters." Russian Women Writers (1998). (article and translation)
45. Gheith, J. "N. D. Khvoshchinskaia." Reference Guide to Russian Literature (1998).
46. "The Superfluous Man and the Necessary Woman: A Re-vision." The Russian Review (April, 1996).
47. Gheith, JM. "The superfluous man and the necessary woman: A "re-vision"." Russian Review 55.2 (January, 1996): 226-244.
48. "Introduction." Evgeniia Tur's Antonina (1996).
49. Gheith, J. "Introduction for a new edition of the Fiitzlyon translation." The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova (1995). (Reprint, 2003)
50. Gheith, J. "Marina Palei’s "Otdelenie propashchikh"." Lives in Transit (1995).
51. Gheith, J. "Women in Russian and the Soviet Union." Russian Review (April, 1994).
52. Gheith, J; Edmondson, L. "Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union." Russian Review 53.2 (April, 1994): 315-315.
53. Gheith, J. "Evgeniia Tur." Dictionary of Russian Women Writers, Marina Ledkovsky (1994).
54. Gheith, J. "A Slanted Perspective: Russian Literary Criticism and Women’s Prose in the Nineteenth Century." Teksty 4-5-6 (1993): 213-224.
55. Gheith, J. ""August 1991," an account of my experiences in Moscow during the failed coup of August, 1991." Women East-West (November, 1991).
56. Gheith, J. ""August 1991," an account of my experiences in Moscow during the failed coup of August, 1991." CREES Newsletter (1991).

   Book reviews

1. J. Gheith. Women and gender in 18th-century Russia. ed. Wendy Rosslyn. Russian Review (October, 2004).
2. J. Gheith. "August 1991," an account of my experiences in Moscow during the failed coup of August, 1991.  CREES Newsletter (Fall, 1991).

   Papers Accepted

1. J. Gheith. "“’The doctors said I was normal’: Trauma, the non-narrative, and the Gulag”." Slavic Review  (2010).

   Translations

1. Gheith, J, trans. Tur/Grot correspondence. Russian Women: Experience and Expression. Ed. al, RBE. Indiana University Press, 2006.
2. Gheith, J, trans. Marina Palei’s "Otdelenie propashchikh". Lives in Transit. Ed. Goscilo, H. Ardis, 1995.
3. Gheith, J, trans. Global Fund for Women brochure.  1990.  for the March 1990 conference on women's issues, Moscow (English to Russian)