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Professor Monahan joined the UNM History department in 2008 as assistant professor of Russian history.  She teaches courses on early modern Russia, Imperial Russia, and Soviet Union/modern Russia.  Her work for a small company in Russia during the 1990s sparked her interest in the history of enterprise in Russia.  This, coupled with her interest in borderlands and frontiers, led her to write a dissertation that examines merchants and their practices in Siberia during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.  She is revising this dissertation into a book manuscript and looks forward to developing courses in Russian environmental history and the history of corruption.

Education

BA in History, Dartmouth University, 1996

MA in History, Stanford University, 2003

PhD in History, Stanford University, 2007

Research

Early modern commerce; merchant cultures; political economy of early modern empires; Russian Empire; history of corruption; environmental history; Central Asia

Selected Publications

Awards

Weter and Mazour dissertation grant, 2006-7      

Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Fellow, 2004

American Council of Teachers of Russian dissertation grant, 2004 (declined)

Stanford Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies research grant, 2002, 2003 

Stanford University Centennial Award for Excellence in Student Teaching, 2002          

Stanford University, History Department fellowship, 2000-2006     

Courses

Medieval & Early modern Russia
Imperial Russia
Twentieth-century Russia
Western Civilization to 1648
Commerce, Empire & Culture: Merchants in Russian History
From Shamans to Socialists: The Siberian Frontier in Comparative Perspective
Russian environmental history