Johanna Conterio Postdoctoral Research Fellow Birkbeck College, University of London, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology 26 Russell Square, London, United Kingdom WC1B 5DG [email protected] Telephone: (011) (+44) 7711 270487

EDUCATION PhD, History, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 2014 Committee: Professor Terry D. Martin (advisor), Professor Alison Frank Johnson, Professor Kelly O’Neill

AM, History, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June 2008 General Examination Fields: Modern and the Soviet Union, 1861-1991; Early Modern Eastern , 1613-1861; Germany since 1740; History of Medicine

BA, Comparative Literature, Yale University, New Haven, CT, May 2002

EMPLOYMENT Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2014 – 2017 Birkbeck College, University of London, Department of History, Classics and Archaeology Working with the Wellcome Trust Project: “The Reluctant Internationalists: A History of Public Health and International Organisations, Movements and Experts in Twentieth Century Europe,” led by Dr. Jessica Reinisch

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

“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 Möllers (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2016), 22-34.

“Conclusion: Beyond Liberal Internationalism,” in “Agents of Internationalism,” special issue, Contemporary European History 25, no. 2 (May 2016): 359-371. Co-Authors: Ana Antic and Dora Vargha. Co-Editors: Jessica Reinisch, Ana Antic, and Dora Vargha.

“Showcasing Stalinist Abundance: Nutrition and Health in the Soviet Health Resort, 1928-1953,” in “Food and Hospitals: An Historical Perspective,” edited by Peter Scholliers and Jonathan Reinarz, special issue, Food & History (in press).

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.

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WORKS IN PROGRESS The Garden State: Medicine, Nature and Mass Culture in Sochi, 1917-1991 (monograph in progress).

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Wellcome Trust Small Grant, for “The in the Socialist World,” £4,900 (2014) Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, for a public screening at Birkbeck Cinema, £500 (2014) Society for the Social History of Medicine, Conference Funding Grant, for conference “The Black Sea in the Socialist World,” £600 (2014) British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) International Conference Grant, for conference “The Black Sea in the Socialist World,” £200 (2014) Dumbarton Oaks Dissertation Completion Fellowship of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, $35,000 (2013-2014) ASEH National Science Foundation Travel Grant (Grant SES-1058613), $700 (Spring 2013) Maurice Lazarus Graduate Research Grant, $4,000 (Summer 2012) Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Research Fellowship, $15,000 (2011-2012) Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award, $61,000 (2010-2011) Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Research Grant, $4,000 (Spring 2010) Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship, $10,000 (Summer 2009) Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Research Grant, $4,000 (Summer 2008) Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Research Grant, $4,000 (Summer 2007)

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION The History and Legacy of the Garden Cities of the World, University of Liverpool, to be held June 2017. Co-organizer: Leon Rocha. Languages of Internationalism, Birkbeck College, University of London, to be held May 2017. Co-organizers: Jessica Reinisch, Ana Antic, Dora Vargha and Brigid O’Keeffe. Socialist Internationalism, Birkbeck College, University of London, to be held February 2017. Co-organizers: Jessica Reinisch, Ana Antic, and Dora Vargha. Writing ‘Outsiders’ into the History of International Public Health, Birkbeck College, University of London, to be held at Birkbeck College, University of London, 27-28 October 2016. Co- organizers: Jessica Reinisch, Ana Antic, Dora Vargha and Susan Gross Solomon. Debating the Cold War, Birkbeck College, University of London, February 2016. Co-organizers: Jessica Reinisch, Ana Antic, and Dora Vargha. Thinking about Health and Welfare in (Eastern) Europe and Beyond, Birkbeck College, University of London, July 2015. Co-organizers: Jessica Reinisch, Ana Antic, and Dora Vargha and the German Research Foundation Network “Social Welfare and Health Care in Eastern and Southeastern Europe during the Long 20 th Century.” The Black Sea in the Socialist World, Birkbeck College, University of London, February 2015. Agents of Internationalism, Birkbeck College, University of London, June 2014. Co-organizers: Jessica Reinisch, Ana Antic, and Dora Vargha.

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INVITED TALKS “The Soviet Cult of Nature: Socialist Natural Healing in Transnational Perspective, 1930-1953,” The Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare Seminar, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, November 26, 2015. “‘The Florida and California of the Soviet Union’: Sochi and the Invention of the Soviet Subtropics in the Interwar Period,” Modern Russian History Seminar, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, February 23, 2015. “The Circulation of Knowledge and the Acclimatization of Citrus to the Soviet Subtropics in Sochi,” 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,” Center for History and Economics Seminar, Harvard, November 7, 2013.

“Water, Air and Sun: Medical Science and Natural Healing in the USSR,” History of Medicine Working Group, Harvard, February 7, 2013.

“‘A Health Resort of ‘World Significance’: The Creation of the Soviet Health Resort in Sochi, 1933-1936,” Russian and East European History Workshop, Harvard, March 6, 2012.

“Preobrazovanie prirody v Sochi vo vremia vtoroi piatiletki” [The Transformation of Nature in Sochi During the Second Five-Year Plan], Russian State University of Tourism and Service, Cherkizovo, Moscow region, Russia, July 12, 2011.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Papers “The Sovietization of the Black Sea Coast under Khrushchev and the Problem of Overdevelopment,” to be presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC, November 2016. “The Prophylactic Park: Health and Healing in the Soviet City, 1928-1953,” to be presented at The Environment and Health in History, University of Oulu, Finland, November 2016. “Socialist Architects on Health: Debates about Health and Welfare at the International Union of Architects Congress in Moscow, 1958,” to be presented at Writing Outsiders into the History of Public Health, London, October 2016. “Urban Planning as Social Engineering: The Politics of Green Space in the Soviet 1930s,” to be presented at Borders of Biopolitics: Gender, Population and Power in Russia, co-organized by UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU, London, October 2016. “Soviet Opposition to the Dutch Quinine Monopoly at the League of Nations,” British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Cambridge, UK, April 2016.

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“Not Merely Seeking Profit: Soviet Ideas of Nature and Conservation in Cold War Context,” Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Philadelphia, November 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,” The Globalization of Medicine and Public Health: Economic and Social Perspectives (1850-2000), University of Lausanne, March 2015. “Was there a Distinctly Socialist Approach to Natural Healing (Naturheilkunde )? Examining the Transnational Roots of Soviet Health Resort Medicine in the 1920s,” Thinking about Health and Welfare in (Eastern) Europe and Beyond, Birkbeck College, University of London, July 2015. “Socialist Design Around the Black Sea: Romanian and Bulgarian Models for the Development of Soviet Health Resorts, 1958-1982,” The Black Sea in the Socialist World, Birkbeck College, University of London, February 2015. “The Lure of the Sea: The Discovery of Sea Bathing at the Black Sea in Transnational Perspective, 1920s-1930s,” Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, San Antonio, November 2014. “Contested Outcomes: Treatment and Cure in the Assessment of Physicians and Patients,” Continuity and Change in Russian Therapy, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, June 2014. “Developed Socialism on Rest: Spiritual Pleasures and Landscapes of Health in the USSR,” Romantic Subversions of Soviet Enlightenment: Questioning Socialism’s Reason, Princeton University, Princeton, May 2014. “‘On the Creation of Egypt in Russia’: Medical Climatology and the Study of Soviet Turkestan,” Annual Conference of the American Society for Environmental History, San Francisco, March 2014. “‘The Green Sea’: Floriculture and the Purification of Public Space in Sochi in the Era of Developed Socialism,” Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Boston, November 2013. “From the Steppe to the Lab: Bacillus Orenburgi and Yogurt ( Kumys ) Production for Tuberculosis Treatment in the USSR, 1920s,” Society for the History of Technology, Portland, Maine, October 2013. “The Photograph as Autobiography: The Photographs of Nikolai Doroshchuk, 1935-1939,” Photography and Visual Orders in the History of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, German Historical Institute, Moscow, Russia, October 2013. “Patient Perspectives on Nutrition and Health at Institutions of Preventive Medicine in the USSR, 1920s-1930s,” Food and Hospitals: An Historical Perspective, University of Birmingham and Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, Belgium, April 2013. “Medicine and Conservation in the USSR, 1919-1941,” Annual Conference of the American Society for Environmental History, Toronto, Canada, April 2013.

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“‘Maintaining the Natural Therapeutic Aspects of the Region’: Health Resorts as Sites of Nature Conservation, 1919-1941,” Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, New Orleans, November 2012. “Kavkazskii aul: Caucasian Restaurants and International Tourism in Sochi, 1960s,” Central Eurasian Studies Society Regional Conference, Tbilisi, , July 2012. “Inventing the Subtropics: An Environmental History of Sochi, 1920-1941,” Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC, November 2011. “The ‘Landscape Shock’: Nature and Nervism in the Soviet Sanatorium, 1950-1960,” The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics, The Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham, UK, February 2011. Other Conference Participation Panel chair, “Ecology and Russian Culture IV: Nonhuman Environments,” at the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC, November 2016. Panel organizer, “Russia and the League of Nations,” British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Cambridge, UK, April 2016. Panel discussant, “Food Preparation, Consumption, and Creation in Difficult Times,” the National Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, November 2015. 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, November 2014. Panel 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, November 2013. Co-organizer: Kristy Ironside. 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, November 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, November 2012.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE Birkbeck College, University of London , London, UK Instructor of Record “Historiography and Interpretation,” to be taught, Summer, 2017 “European History from 1800,” Spring 2016 “The History of the Soviet Union After Stalin,” Spring 2015 “Internationalism and International Organisations in Twentieth-Century Europe,” Spring 2016 Advisor, MA Theses, 2015, 2016

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

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Peer reviewer, Environmental History , Contemporary European History , East European Politics and Societies Invited Panelist, “From the PhD to Postdoctoral Research: Q&A,” at School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, UK, July 2015. Invited Panelist, “Conducting Archive Research in the Russian Federation,” at Harvard University, The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, April 2012. Invited Panelist, “Writing a Winning Grant Proposal for the Fulbright Programs,” at Harvard University, Dudley House, September 2011. Graduate convener, Russian and East European History Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, 2008-2009.

DIGITAL PROJECTS & PUBLIC OUTREACH Tour guide, “International Socialism in London,” Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities, London, to be held November 26, 2016. Workshop participant, Historical Mapping and Geographical Information Systems, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, May 5-6, 2016. Co-Coordinator, Digital Resources for Teaching International History (under preparation) Project developer for website designed for school teachers on international history, with digital archive, sample teaching plans, interactive encyclopedia and timeline. Organizer, public film screening and discussion panel, “USSR Now” (1958, dir. Michael Ingrams) and “Opening in Moscow,” (1959, dir. D.A. Pennebaker), Birkbeck Institute of the Moving Image, London, UK, February 2015

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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS 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) British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (2014-present)

RESEARCH LANGUAGES English (native); Russian (fluent); German (fluent); French (intermediate reading).

REFERENCES Professor Terry Martin George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-9895 [email protected]

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

Professor Alison Frank Johnson Harvard University Center for European Studies 27 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-4303 ext. 281 [email protected]

Dr. Jessica Reinisch Reader Birkbeck College, University of London Department of History, Classics and Archaeology 26-28 Russell Square London, WC1B 5DQ U.K. (011) (+44) 20 7631 6393 [email protected]

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