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• Soviet Union, Race and Gender in History
  
  

• PhD Michigan State University - May 2005, Russian History
  Dissertation: "Another Kind of 'Freedom': The Soviet Experiment With Antiracism and Its Image as a 'Raceless' Society."
• MA Michigan State University - May 2000, Russian History
• BA summa cum laude The College of New Jersey - May 1998, History

• Research Enhancement Award, Michigan State University, 2004.
• Muelder-Lowe Award for Future Professors of European History, Michigan State University, 2003-2004.
• Research Enhancement Award, Michigan State University, 2003.
• Muelder Four-Year Admissions Fellowship, Michigan State University, 2001-2005.
• Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship to study Azerbaijani, Indiana State University, Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, 2001.
• Merit Thesis Completion Fellowship, Michigan State University, 2000.

• Black Disporas in Modern Europe
• Revolutions and Revolutionaries in the Twentieth Century
• Race, Nationality and Gender in Modern Russia
• Stalinism
• Race, Gender, and Empire
• Black Radicalism and the Soviet Union
  

• "Racism in a 'Raceless' Society: Racial Violence at the Stalingrad Giant of Socialist Industry and Images of Soviet Racial Equality, August 1930," International Labor and Working-Class History No. 71 (Spring 2007): 185-203.
• "Robert Robinson: Celebrity Worker in the U.S.S.R." Human Tradition in the African Diaspora, edited by Beatriz Mamigonian and Karen Racine (forthcoming from Rowman & Littlefield).

• "Anti-Empire, Anti-Racism: Representations of the Soviet Union as a Superior Society during the Interwar Era," 39th Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), New Orleans, Louisiana, November 15-18, 2007.
• "Potemkinism: Fact and Fiction," Roundtable Participant, 39th Annual Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), New Orleans, Louisiana, November 15-18, 2007.
• "Forging Black Freedom Across the Atlantic: African Americans in the Soviet Union and the Internationalization U.S. Racism." 91rst Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH), Atlanta, Georgia, September 28-October 1, 2006.
• "Racism Cannot Exist Here: Cultivating the Image of the Soviet UNion as a Raceless Society During the Interwar Era," 120th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 5-8, 2006.
• "Keepin' it Real: African Americans in Moscow's International Lenin School and the Demands that the Promises of Soviet 'Racelessness' Be Fulfilled, 1931-1932," 3rd Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the World African Diaspora (ASWAD), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 5-7, 2005
• "Making Caucasians Black: Moscow Since the Fall of Communism and the Racialization of Non-Russians," Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics 18, No.2 (June 2002): 1-27.
• "'Liberate Our Black Commrades!': Scottsboro, Alabama and the Glorification of the 'Enlightened' Soviet State During the First Five-Year Plan," 43rd Anual Meeting of the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies (SCSS), Nashville, Tennessee, April 14-16, 2005.
• "From Minsk to Vladivostok: US Racism 101 or the Scottsboro Campaign in the Soviet Union," Semi-Anual Mid-Western Slavic Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, April 30-May 1, 2004.
• "American Racism on Trial in Stalingrad: The Attack on a Black Worker, and the Image of the Soviet Union as the Fatherland of all Workers," Mid-Western Slavic History Conference, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, February 27-28, 2004.
• "Making Caucasians Black: Moscow Since the Fall of Communism and the Racialization of Non-Russians," 27th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association, St. Louis, Missouri, October 24-27, 2002.
• "Teaching Race and Racism in Slavic Studies," 33rd National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), Crystal City (Arlington), Virginia, November 15-18, 2001.
• Chair, "Blacks in Europe and the European Mind," Diaspora Paradigms: New Scholarship in Comparitive Black History, Michigan State University, September 20-23, 2001. 

• Dr. Roman has an essay under review at The Russian Review titled "Internationalizing U.S. Racism: Soviet Anti-Racism and the Scottsboro Protest in the U.S.S.R." She is currently working on her manuscript titled "Soviet Anti-Racism and African Americans: The Indictment of American Racism in the U.S.S.R., 1928-1937."