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Amy Randall
Associate Professor
Department of History
tel (408)551-1778
arandall@scu.edu
Spring 2012:
On Leave
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Education
Ph. D, Princeton University
M.A., Princeton University
Teaching at SCU
Lower Division Courses
- Medieval and Early Modern Western Civilization
- Modern Western Civilization
- Culture and Ideas 1: Identity and the “Other” in the Shaping of the Modern World
- Culture and Ideas II: Identity and the “Other” in the Shaping of the Modern World
Upper Division Courses
- Reformers & Revolutionaries in Tsarist Russia
- The Soviet Experiment
- Gender/Race/Class in 20th-Century Europe
- The History of Sexuality
- Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century
Publications
Manuscripts
The Soviet Dream World of Retail Trade and Consumption in the 1930s
(Basingstoke, UK and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, October 2008).
Articles
"'Abortion Will Deprive You of Happiness!': Soviet Reproductive Politics in the Post-Stalin Era," The Journal of Women's History 23:3 (2011): 13-38.
"The "Right" to Control Her Own Body?: Soviet Women, Abortion and the State," and online essay for the Journal of Women's History for new web initiative, "Beyond the Printed Page," September 2011.
"Legitimizing Soviet Trade: Gender and Feminization of the Retail
Workforce in the Soviet 1930s," Journal of Social History 37:4
(Summer 2004): 965-990).
"Revolutionary Bolshevik Work' -- Stakhanovism in Retail Trade,"
The Russian Review 59:3 (July 2000): 425-441.
“Repealing the Ban on Abortion,” an invited essay for Seventeen Moments in History (www.soviethistory.org), July 2010.
This academic website is an award winning on-line collection of primary source materials and writings on Soviet history edited by James von Geldern and Lewis Siegelbaum. In addition to this essay, I translated two primary documents (“Repeal of the Ban on Abortion” and “For you, Comrade Men”), selected and abridged a relevant excerpt on abortion from All Quiet on the Don (a Soviet novel), and selected and translated three Soviet public health posters for the website.
Grants, Fellowship, and Awards
- Paul J. Locatelli, S.J. Junior Faculty Grant, Fall 2007.
- University Grant for Indexing, November 2007.
- Presidential Research Grant, Santa Clara University, Summer 2007.
- ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship, 2004-2005.
- New Core Curriculum Development Award for a Cultures and Ideas 3 Course: “Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century,” Spring 2008
- New Core Curriculum Development Award for a Cultures and Ideas 1 & 2 sequence, “Identity & the “Other” in the Shaping of the Modern World,” Fall 2008
