Yana Skorobogatov 250 Amherst Avenue, Kensington, CA 94708 yanaskorobogatov.com yanaskor@berkeley.edu Education PhD UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, History, expected in 2018 MA UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN, History, received in 2012 BA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, History (Honors), received in 2009 Fellowships and Awards 2016-17 NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russian Writer in Residence Fellowship 2016 Association for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies Dissertation Research Grant 2016 Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (Alternate) 2016 University of California at Berkeley Institute of Slavic Eastern European Eurasian 2016 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award 2015 University of California at Berkeley History Department Research Year Fellowship 2015 University of California at Berkeley John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship 2015 University of California at Berkeley Institute for International Studies Pre- Dissertation Research Grant 2015 University of California at Berkeley Institute of Slavic Eastern European Eurasian 2014 University of California at Berkeley Institute of Slavic Eastern European Eurasian 2014 University of California at Berkeley Graduate Division Summer Grant 2013 University of California at Berkeley Institute of Slavic Eastern European Eurasian 2013 University of California at Berkeley Graduate Division Summer Grant 2013 Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship Russian
2012 University of California at Berkeley History Department Academic Year Fellowship 2012 Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship German (declined) 2012 University of Texas at Austin History Department Research Grant 2010 University of Texas at Austin History Department Research Grant Conference Presentations 2017 Contesting Death: Russian Community Activism and the Death Penalty, 1978-1991. Accepted at the North East Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Conference, New York, NY. With Brigid O Keeffe. 2017 We re Talking about Human Life : Death Penalty Pardons under Khrushchev, 1954-1964. Accepted at the First Annual Workshop on Russian History, University of Nevada at Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV. With Jeffrey Hardy. 2016 Mercy and Reform: Appealing a Death Sentence in the Soviet Union, 1982-1991. Presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC. With Juliane Furst. 2015 Istoricheskii akt: The Abolition of Capital Punishment in the USSR in 1947. Delivered at the Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies, Philadelphia, PA. With Jochen Hellbeck. 2014 Revolution on their Mind: Writing a Solidarity Letter Under Brezhnev. Delivered at the Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. With Ilya Vinitsky. 2012 Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR. Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, San Diego, California. With Alexei Kojevnikov. 2012 Scientists, Human Rights, and the American Intellectual Landscape. Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois. With Elizabeth Borgwardt. Teaching
Interests: Spring 2017 Spring 2015 Fall 2014 Spring 2014 Fall 2013 Spring 2013 Soviet History, Russian History, Law and Society, Crime and Punishment. LOCKED UP: THE CARCERAL STATE IN THE 20 TH CENTURY Head Instructor. THE UNITED STATES FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT, Head Graduate Student Instructor. AMERICAN HISTORY FROM SETTLEMENT TO CIVIL WAR, Head Graduate Student Instructor. THE UNITED STATES FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO THE PRESENT, UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, WWII THE PRESENT, EUROPEAN HISTORY, WORLD WAR I THE PRESENT, Guest Lectures Summer 2015 Spring 2015 The Cold War at Home and Abroad, guest lecture for Professor Gene Zubovich s course The United States from the Civil War to the Present, Containment Abroad, guest lecture for Professor Felicia Viator s course The United States from the Civil War to the Present, University of California, Berkeley. Service and Leadership 2017 Head organizer of Russian Revolution Centenary Graduate Student Workshop 2014 Co-organized the UC Berkeley American Political History Seminar 2013 Chaired the UC Berkeley History Graduate Association 2013 16 Early member of the Berkeley International and Global History Conference. http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bigh/ 2013 Co-organized the UC Berkeley Russian History Kruzhok
Related Experience 2014 - Write consistently high-trafficked, general-audience articles on Soviet and American history for TIME Magazine. http://www.time.com/life 2015-16 Wrote general-audience reviews of social science projects for the Berkeley Social Science Matrix website, http://www.matrix.berkeley.edu/ 2013-14 Provide research, editorial, and production support for Women s Social Movements International. http://wasi.alexanderstreet.com/ 2012 Independently produced, researched, and wrote stories for KUT, National Public Radio s Austin, TX branch. http://www.kut.org 2011 Produced and edited general-audience articles and reviews for Not Even Past, the University of Texas at Austin s history website, edited by Professor Joan Neuberger. http://www.notevenpast.org 2006 Translated interviews from Russian to English for the Public Broadcasting Service s Frontline/WORLD documentary Russia: Island on the Edge." http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/05/russia_island_o.html Languages References Yuri Slezkine, Jane K. Sather Professor of History 2220 Dwinelle Hall (510) 642-2224 slezkine@berkeley.edu Victoria Frede Associate Professor of History Department of History 3217 Dwinelle Hall (510) 642-2456 vfrede@berkeley.edu Russian (native), Spanish (intermediate), French (reading),
Daniel J. Sargent Associate Professor of History Department of History 2215 Dwinelle Hall (510) 643-3159 daniel.sargent@berkeley.edu