Erika Monahan

Assistant Professor • Europe

Contact

E-Mail: emonahan@unm.edu

Office: Mesa Vista Hall 2077

Office Phone: (505)-277-7851

 

Profile

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 currently revising this dissertation into a book manuscript about commerce in early modern Eurasia.

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

"Virtue and Vice: Controlling Commodities in Early Modern Siberia,” in Tobacco in Russian History and Culture: The Seventeenth Century to the Present, eds. Matthew Romaniello and Tricia Starks (New York:  Routledge, 2009).

“Trade and Empire:  Merchant Networks, Frontier Commerce, and the State in Western Siberia, 1644–1728” (PhD. Dissertation, Stanford University, 2007)

Awards

Shoemaker Award, University of New Mexico, 2009

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

History at the Peripheries: Russian Empire, 1462-1905
Explorations in Russian Environmental History
From Formation to Westernization: Old Russia to Peter the Great
Men, Women, State & Society in Imperial Russia
History of Russia in the Twentieth Century
Cultures of Exchange: Commerce in the Early Modern World (graduate seminar)
Western Civilization I: Ancient times to 1648.
From Shamans to Socialists:  The Siberian Frontier in Comparative Perspective