Dinah Jansen

PhD Candidate/Teaching Fellow
Russian History

Email:  dinah.jansen@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-2150
Fax: 613-533-6298

Education

MA, European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, 2009
BA (Hons.), History and English Literature, Queen's University, 2007

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About

I am a third-year PhD candidate focusing on anti-Bolshevik Russian émigrés in interwar Paris under the supervision of Ana Siljak and Rebecca Manley.  Most scholarship in this field studies the émigrés' cultural life and mission to preserve their 'Russianness' in exile.  My work takes the point of view that Russianness is a contested category.  It explores the myriad ways émigré intellectuals articulated their identity (eg: distinctly Orthodox Slavic Russia vs. multinational/multi-faith empire), how these expressions manifested themselves in political ideals for a non-Bolshevik Russian future, and ultimately how these languages of identity competed for but lost a voice in post-Versailles Paris at a time when self-determination redrew the map of Europe.

Courses Taught:

HIST 122-The Making of the Modern World

Publications

Review of Anthony Anemone, Ed. Just Assassins: The Culture of Terrorism in Russia (Evanston (IL): Northwestern University Press, 2010), in Canadian Slavonic Papers (Forthcoming).

"The Conflict between Self-Determination & Territorial Integrity: South Ossetia in Perspective," in Hoque, Sabrina ed., Geopolitics vs. Global Governance: Reinterpreting International Security (Halifax: Dalhousie University Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, 2009): 222-242.

"Canada's Role in Russian Weapons Security and Disarmament: The G8 Global Partnership Revisited," Canadian Military Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Autumn 2009): 6-15.

"Life Lessons: Vera Figner and the Russian Revolutionary Movement, 1861-1881," Minerva Journal of Women and War, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Spring 2009): 24-42.

Scholarships

2011-2013 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship
2011-2012 Ontario Graduate Scholarship. (Declined)
2009-2012-Ellen Wilson Buzek Fellowship
2009-2011 Ontario Graduate Scholarship.