Julie Hessler

Office: 351 McKenzie Hall
Phone: (541) 346-4857
E-mail: hessler@darkwing.uoregon.edu

Biographical Information
Assistant Professor in Twentieth-century Europe
Ph.D. 1996, University of Chicago
M.A. 1989, University of Chicago
B.A. 1988, Yale University
With the U of O since 1995

Major Publications
"Postwar Normalization and its Limits in the USSR: The Case of Trade," Europe-Asia Studies (May 2000)
"Cultured Trade: The Stalinist Turn to Consumerism," in Fitzpatrick, ed., Stalinism: New Directions (Routledge, 2000)
"A Postwar Perestroika? Toward a History of Private Enterprise in the USSR," Slavic Review (fall, 1998)

Recent Fellowships, Grants, and Honors
Summer, 2000 International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) short-term grant
1999-2000 Mellon Fellow, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
Summer, 1998 IREX short-term grant
Winter, 1998 Research Fellow, Oregon Humanities Center
Fall, 1997 Research scholar, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies

Current Research and Writing
Currently writing a comprehensive history of trade, consumption, and the black market in the Soviet Union from
the 1917 revolution through Stalin's death in 1953

Recent Teaching
Russian and the Soviet Union since 1917
Seminars on Stalinism and the Russian Revolution
Twentieth-century Eastern Europe
Fascism and Nazism
Topics in contemporary Europe (most recently on the theme of Politics and Conscience
Western Civilization (third quarter)