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Dr. Meredith Romanroman

Office: 125 Albert W. Brown Building
Phone: 585.395.2010
E-Mail: mroman@brockport.edu

Specialization

  • Soviet Union, Race and Gender in History

Education

  • 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

Awards and Honors

  • 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.

Courses Taught 

  • 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

Publications 

  • "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).

Conferences and Presentations 

  • "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. 

Current Projects 

  • 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."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Last Updated 7/21/10

News

Two History Faculty receive SUNY Chancellor's Awards for 2012!

Five history students have won campus-wide awards for the 2011-2012 year!

History student Judith Littlejohn interviewed about her love of history and how it led to a job as the curator for the Elba museum

Dr. Macpherson gives the keynote lecture in the Belize at 30 Conference, the final event in the celebrations of Belize's Independence 

Events

There will be no department events until the Fall term.  History faculty will be present at SOAR events, however, to assist new transfers and late admits. 

Best wishes for a fun and productive summer.