Johanna Conterio Birkbeck College, University of London, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology 26 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom WC1B 5DQ [email protected], (011) +44 20 7631 6588 August 2015

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Birkbeck College, University of London , London, UK Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of History, Classics and Archeology (2014- present, three year appointment)

EDUCATION Harvard University , Cambridge, Massachusetts PhD, Department of History (2014)

AM, History (2008) General Examination Fields: Modern Russia and the Soviet Union, 1861-1991; Early Modern Russian Empire, 1613-1861; Germany since 1740; History of Medicine.

Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut BA, Comparative Literature (2002)

DISSERTATION The Soviet Sanatorium: Medicine, Nature and Mass Culture in Sochi, 1917-1991 Advisor: Professor Terry D. Martin

PUBLICATIONS In Preparation The Soviet Riviera: Medicine, Nature and Mass Culture in Sochi, 1917-1991 (book)

Submitted “The Florida and California of the Soviet Union: Citrus and the Development of the Soviet Subtropics in Global Perspective,” American Historical Review (under revision)

“‘Maintaining the Natural Therapeutic Aspects of the Region’: Health Resorts as Sites of Nature Conservation, 1917-1941,” Slavic Review (under peer review)

“Patient Perspectives on Nutrition and Health at Institutions of Preventive Medicine in the USSR, 1920s-1930s,” in “Food and Hospitals: An Historical Perspective,” edited by Peter Scholliers and Jonathan Reinarz, special issue, Food & History (under peer review)

“Heating the Groves: Imported Technology, Transnational Scientific Networks and the Acclimatization of Citrus in the USSR, 1928-1941,” in Objects in Motion: Globalizing Technology , edited by Bryan Dewalt and Nina Moellers, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press (forthcoming)

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Published “Inventing the Subtropics: An Environmental History of Sochi, 1928-1936,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History , Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter, 2015): 91-120.

Review, Anne E. Gorsuch, All This is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin . New York: Oxford University Press, 2001, Ab Imperio , No. 3 (2012): 453-457.

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS Wellcome Trust Small Grant, for conference “The Black Sea in the Socialist World” (2014) Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, small grant, for a public screening of “USSR Today” at Birkbeck Cinema (2014) Society for the Social History of Medicine, Conference Funding Grant, for conference “The Black Sea in the Socialist World” (2014) British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) International Conference Grant, for conference “The Black Sea in the Socialist World” (2014) Dumbarton Oaks Dissertation Completion Fellowship of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (2013-2014) ASEH National Science Foundation Travel Grant (Grant SES-1058613) (Spring 2013) Maurice Lazarus Graduate Research Grant (Summer 2012) Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Dissertation Research Fellowship (2011-2012) Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award (2010-2011) Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Research Grant (Spring 2010) Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship (Summer 2009) Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Research Grant (Summer 2008) Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Research Grant (Summer 2007)

CONFERENCE PAPERS “Not Merely Seeking Profit: Soviet Ideas of Nature and Conservation in Cold War Context,” to be presented at the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Philadelphia, USA, November 21-24, 2015.

“The Soviet Quest for Quinine: The All-Union Institute of Plant Industry, Scientific Expeditions to South America, and the Development of the Soviet Pharmaceutical Industry,” presented at “The Globalization of Medicine and Public Health: Economic and Social Perspectives (1850- 2000),” University of Lausanne, March 12-13, 2015.

“The Black Sea in the Socialist World: A View to Maritime History,” presented at “The Black Sea in the Socialist World,” Birkbeck, University of London, February 6-7, 2015.

“The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of Sea Bathing at the Black Sea in Transnational Perspective, 1920s-1930s,” at the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, San Antonio, USA, November 20-23, 2014.

“Contested Outcomes: Treatment and Cure in the Assessment of Physicians and Patients,” presented at “Continuity and Change in Russian Therapy,” St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, June 5-6, 2014.

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“Developed Socialism on Rest: Spiritual Pleasures and Landscapes of Health in the USSR,” presented at “Romantic Subversions of Soviet Enlightenment: Questioning Socialism’s Reason,” The Princeton Conjunction, Princeton University, Princeton, USA, May 9-10, 2014.

“‘On The Creation of Egypt in Russia’: Medical Climatology and the Study of Soviet Turkestan,” presented at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Environmental History, San Francisco, USA, March 12-16, 2014.

“‘The Green Sea’: Floriculture and the Purification of Public Space in Sochi in the Era of Developed Socialism,” presented at the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Boston, USA, November 21-24, 2013.

“From the Steppe to the Lab: Bacillus Orenburgi and Yogurt (Kumys ) Production for Tuberculosis Treatment in the USSR, 1920s,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology, Portland, Maine, USA, October 10-12, 2013.

“The Photograph as Autobiography: The Photographs of Nikolai Doroshchuk, 1935-1939,” presented at “Photography and Visual Orders in the History of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union,” conference of the German Historical Institute, Moscow, Russia, October 2-4, 2013.

“Patient Perspectives on Nutrition and Health at Institutions of Preventive Medicine in the USSR, 1920s-1930s,” presented at “Food and Hospitals: An Historical Perspective,” conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, University of Birmingham (Brussels campus) and Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium, April 26-27, 2013.

“Medicine and Conservation in the USSR, 1919-1941,” presented at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Environmental History, Toronto, Canada, April 3-6, 2013.

“‘Maintaining the Natural Therapeutic Aspects of the Region’: Health Resorts as Sites of Nature Conservation, 1919-1941,” presented at the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, New Orleans, USA, November 15-18, 2012.

“Kavkazskii aul : Caucasian Restaurants and International Tourism in Sochi, 1960s,” presented at the Central Eurasian Studies Society Regional Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia, July 20-21, 2012.

“Inventing the Subtropics: An Environmental History of Sochi, 1920-1941,” presented at the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC, USA, November 17-20, 2011.

“The ‘Landscape Shock’: Nature and Nervism in the Soviet Sanatorium, 1950-1960” presented at “The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics,” conference of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, The Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham, UK, February 17-18, 2011.

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“Exposing the Body to Nature: Climate and Health in the Soviet Sanatorium, 1920s- 1930s,” presented at the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Los Angeles, USA, November 18-21, 2010.

TALKS AND WORKSHOP PAPERS “‘The Florida and California of the Soviet Union’: Sochi and the Invention of the Soviet Subtropics in the Interwar Period,” presented to the Modern Russian History Seminar, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, UK, February 23, 2015.

“‘The Florida and California of the Soviet Union’: The Circulation of Knowledge and the Acclimatization of Citrus to the Soviet Subtropics in Sochi,” presented at the New York City History of Science Working Group, New York University, February 7, 2014.

“The Progressive Provinces: Dismantling the Myth of the Backward Provinces in the History of the Industrialization of the USSR,” presented at the Center for History and Economics Workshop, Harvard University, November 7, 2013.

“Medicine and Conservation in the USSR, 1919-1941,” presented at the Graduate Student Writing Workshop, at the American Society for Environmental History Conference, Toronto, Canada, April 6, 2013.

“Water, Air and Sun: Medical Science and Natural Healing in the USSR,” dissertation chapter presented at the History of Medicine Working Group, Harvard University, February 2013.

“Conducting Archive Research in the Russian Federation,” talk at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, April 2012.

“‘A Health Resort of ‘World Significance’: The Creation of the Soviet Health Resort in Sochi, 1933-1936,” dissertation chapter presented at the Harvard Russian and East European History Workshop, Harvard University, March 2012.

“Writing a Winning Grant Proposal for the Fulbright Programs,” talk at Dudley House, Harvard University, September 2011.

“Preobrazovanie prirody v Sochi vo vremia vtoroi piatiletki” [The Transformation of Nature in Sochi During the Second Five-Year Plan], invited talk at the Russian State University of Tourism and Service, Cherkizovo, Moscow region, Russia, July 2011.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Birkbeck College, University of London , London, U.K. Instructor of Record “The History of the Soviet Union After Stalin” (Spring 2015) “An Introduction to Environmental History” (upcoming, Fall 2015) “The New Soviet Person: Engineering Social Change in Soviet Russia, 1917-1941” (upcoming, Spring 2016)

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“Internationalism and International Organisations in Twentieth-Century Europe ” (upcoming, Spring 2016)

Harvard University , Cambridge, Massachusetts Teaching Fellowships “History of the Russian Empire,” Professor Kelly O’Neill (Spring 2009) “History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991,” Professor Terry Martin (Fall 2008, repeated in Fall 2009)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Workshop convener, “The Black Sea in the Socialist World,” Birkbeck College, University of London, February 6-7, 2015.

Workshop co-convener, “Agents of Internationalism,” at Birkbeck College, University of London, June 19-20, 2014.

Panel chair, “Writing with Patients: Narrating Medicine in Nineteenth Century Russia,” at the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, San Antonio, USA, November 20-23, 2014.

Panel co-organizer, “ Building Socialism after Stalin: New Perspectives on the Soviet Social Contract ,” at the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Boston, USA, November 21-24, 2013.

Panel chair, “The Seventh Republic: Exploration, Environment, and the Making of Soviet Tajikistan,” at the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Boston, USA, November 21-24, 2013.

Panel organizer, “Environment and Health in the Soviet Periphery,” at the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, New Orleans, USA, November 15-18, 2012.

Panel chair, “Medicine, Gender, and Professional Power in the Late Stalin Era,” at the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, New Orleans, USA, November 15-18, 2012.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (2009-present) Society for the Social History of Medicine (2010-present) American Society for Environmental History (2012-present) American Historical Association (2012-present) Society for the History of Technology (2013-present) British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (joined in 2014)

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REFERENCES Professor Terry Martin Department of History Harvard University Room S328, 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-9895 [email protected]

Professor Alison Frank Johnson Department of History Harvard University Room 404, 27 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-4303 ext. 281 [email protected]

Professor Diane Koenker Department of History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 309 Gregory Hall, 810 S Wright, M/C 466 Urbana, IL 61801 217-300-4097 [email protected]

Dr. Jessica Reinisch Senior Lecturer Birkbeck, University of London Department of History, Classics and Archaeology 26-28 Russell Square London, WC1B 5DQ U.K. 020 7631 6393 [email protected]

Associate Professor Kelly O’Neill Harvard University Department of History Harvard University Room S329, 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-7293 [email protected]