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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 Russia and the Soviet Union, 1861-1991; Early Modern Eastern Europe, 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 Sochi, 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. Johanna Conterio, Page 2 of 7 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 Black Sea 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. 2 Johanna Conterio, Page 3 of 7 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. 3 Johanna Conterio, Page 4 of 7 “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