Laurie Manchester

EXTERNAL FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2011-2013 Research Fellowship, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research ($40,000).

2009  Vucinich Book Prize for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any field of the humanities or social sciences (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies).

2007  Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Short-Term Grant ($3,100).

1999, 1996  Harriman Institute of Columbia University Semester Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

1997 International Research Exchange Short-Term Fellowship to Russia.

1996-1997  Davis Center for Russian Studies of Harvard University Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

1995  Kennan Institute, Nine Month Post-Doctoral Research Scholarship.

1993-1994  Social Science Research Council Dissertation Writing Fellowship; Charlotte W. Newcombe Fellowship; Kennan Institute, Short Term Grant.

1991-1992   Fulbright‑Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship to USSR and Finland; International Research Exchange Academic Year Fellowship to the Soviet Union.   

CO-ORGANIZED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:

“The Sacral and the Secular in Autobiographical Practices of the Modern Period (Eighteenth toEarly Twentieth Centuries),” held at the German Historical Institute in Moscow June 3-4, 2016.

“France in the Long Nineteenth Century: In the Honor of Rachel Fuchs,” held at Arizona State University on April 12, 2014.

PRESENTATIONS

External Juried Conference Papers

Roundtable participant for the panel “The Politics of Memory: Contrasting the Experience of Conducting Oral Histories in Various Post-Soviet Countries.” To be Presented at the Forty-Eighth Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Chicago on November 11, 2017.

Roundtable participant for the panel “Does the Russian Diaspora Still Exist in the West?” Presented at the Forty-Seventh Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, D.C. on November 20, 2016.

Roundtable participant for the panel “Orthodoxy and Autobiographical Practices in Imperial Russia.” Presented at the Forty-Seventh Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, D.C. on November 19, 2016.

“The Development in Post-Soviet Russia of an Alternative Concept of  Russianness among Post-War Repatriates from China Living in Siberia and the Urals.” Presented at “Centrifugal Forces: Reading Russia’s Regional Identities and Initiatives” at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, on March 27, 2015.

Discussant for the panel “Orthodox Clerical Education and Russian Imperial Power in 19th-Century Ukraine.” Presented at the Forty-Sixth  Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, San Antonio, Texas on November 23, 2014.

Roundtable participant. “Asymmetries of Power: Articulating Colonial  Agencies in Eurasia’s Past and Present.” Presented at the Forty-Sixth Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian  Studies, San Antonio, Texas on November 23, 2014.

Roundtable participant, “Repatriating Russian Émigrés Archives or Erasing the Existence of a Diaspora?” Presented at the Forty-Fifth Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Boston, on November 24, 2013.

"Realizing ‘Real’ Russians Don’t Live in Soviet Russia: Russian Repatriates Born in China Narrate their First Impressions of their Historic Homeland.” Presented at the Forty-Fifth Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Boston, on November 23, 2013.

Roundtable participant, “Where, How and When was the Russian Empire Colonial?” Round table participant at the Forty-Second Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Los Angeles, November 20, 2010.

“Bearers of Pre-Revolutionary Russian Traditions Become Soviet Citizens: The Self-Fashioning of Post-War Returnees from China.” Presented at the St. Petersburg International Colloquium, “History and Subjectivity in Russia”, June 8, 2010 (in Russian).

“Redefining the Nation: The Russian Diaspora’s Attempt to Forge a New Ethnicity during Stalin’s Revolution from Above.” Presented at the Forty-First National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, November, 2009.

“Social Estate Functioning as Race: Late Imperial Russian Orthodox Clergywomen as Agents of Internal Colonization.” Presented at the Forty-Seventh Southern Slavic Conference, Charlottesville, VA, March, 2009.

“The Colonial World through Russian Eyes: Russian Refugees in Africa and China in the 1920s and 30s.” Presented at The Historical Society’s 2008 Conference “Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity and Nationalism in History” at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland on June 6, 2008.

“Representations of China and Africa in Russian Émigré Personal Texts.” Presented at the Thirty-Ninth National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Orleans, November 17, 2007.

Roundtable participant, “Was the Russian Orthodox Church on the Verge of a  Reformation in 1917?” at the Thirty-Seventh National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Salt Lake City, November 3, 2005.

“Using Autobiographies to Construct an Alternative “National” Culture: Popovichi as a Key to Redefining Identity in Late Imperial Russia” Presented at the Seventh World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, Berlin, Germany, July 26, 2005.

“An Inegalitarian Society: Russian Orthodox Conceptions of Social Estates as Sinful or Virtuous”. Presented at the Thirty-Fifth National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Toronto, Canada, November 23, 2003.

Roundtable participant, “Incorporating Orthodoxy into Russian and Soviet History Survey Courses.” Presented at the Thirty-Third National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Arlington, VA, on November 18, 2001.

Discussant for the panel, “Key Concepts in Russian History, Seventeenth-Twentieth Centuries.” Presented at the Thirty-First National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, MO, November 19, 1999.

Discussant for the panel, “Russian Orthodoxy and Autocracy in the Late Imperial Period.” Presented at the Thirty-First National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, St. Louis, MO, November 20, 1999.

"Gender and Pastoral Care: Shifting Conceptions of Parish Service and the Role of Clerical Women in Imperial Russia." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the New England Slavic Association, Wellesley, MA, April 19, 1997.

"Eve Resurrected: The Ambivalent Representations of Clerical Women in Late Imperial Russia." Presented at the Twenty-Eighth National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Boston, MA, November 16, 1996.

"Toward an Intelligentsia Mentalité: The Common Patterns of Behavior and Autobiographical Reconstructions of Orthodox Clergymen's Sons in Post-Reform Russia." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the New England Slavic Association, Worcester, MA, April 20, 1996. 

"The Intelligentsia and Secularization of Religious Values: The Case of Orthodox Clergymen's Sons in Late Imperial Russia." Presented at the Twenty-Seventh National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Washington, D.C., October 26, 1995.

"Secular Asceticism: The Contribution of Orthodox Clergymen's Sons to the Russian Intelligentsia." Presented at the Fifth World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, Poland, August 9, 1995.  

"Clerical Upbringing and Its Contribution to the World View of Russian Orthodox Clergymen's Sons." Presented at the Twenty-Fifth National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, November, 21, 1993.

External Invited Talks:

"Imagining the Soviet Union from Abroad: How Post-War Manchurian Russians Reconceptualized their Historic Homeland." Presented at the Inaugural Desert Workshop in Russian History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March 1, 2017.

Opening and concluding remarks at the conference “The Sacral and the Secular in Autobiographical Practices of the Modern Period (Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries),” held at the German Historical Institute in Moscow June 3-4, 2016.

Discussant for the panel, “The Soviet Period,” on June 4, 2016 at the conference “The Sacral and the Secular in Autobiographical Practices of the Modern Period (Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries),” held at the German Historical Institute in Moscow.

“How A Single Genre Can Tell Us Nearly Everything We Want to Know About  the Parish Clergy: Orthodox Clergymen’s Obituaries as  Autobiographical, Biographical, Ethnographic and Prescriptive Texts that Shed Light on the National Discourse in Late Imperial Russia.” Presented on June 4, 2016 at the conference “The Sacral and the Secular in Autobiographical Practices of the Modern Period (Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries),”  held at the German Historical Institute in Moscow.

“Ethnic Return Migration to a Totalitarian Country that Undergoes a Revolution: The Shifting Identities of Russian Repatriates from China Before and After the Collapse of the Soviet Union.” Presented on May 21, 2015 at the School of Public Administration of Moscow State University (in Russian).

“Can Stateless Refugees be Colonizers? Colonial Impulses among First Wave Russian Émigrés in Africa, China and South America.” Presented at the Russian History Workshop at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on February 10, 2015.

“Crafting Identities Independent of a Totalitarian State: How Russian Repatriates from China Formed a Collective Identity that Verges on a New Ethnicity.” Presented at the Literature and Culture Seminar at Harvard University on March 13, 2014.

“Situating’ America’s Russian-speaking Refugees and Immigrants: Transnational and National Disciplinary Contexts.” Presented at the NEH Summer Institute "America's Russian-Speaking Immigrants and Refugees: 20th Century Migration and Memory" at Columbia University on June 10, 2013. 

“The Real Russians Return: Repatriates from China to the U.S.S.R.” Presented on March 25, 2013 to the History Faculty at St. Anthony’s College, Oxford  University.

"A Missionizing Diaspora: Colonial Fantasies Among First Wave Émigrés ." Presented on March 31, 2012 at Amherst College’s Symposium on Émigré Encounters: Exiles and Their Legacies.

“How the Religious Roots of the Russian Revolution Lead Scholars Astray.” Presented at Cambridge University as part of the conference “Religion, Revolution and Memory” on October 1, 2011.

“The Colonial Imagination among Stateless Refugees: Russian First Wave Émigrés in Africa, China and South America.” Presented to the Center for Russian and East European Studies of Stanford University on May 20, 2011.

“Obituary of Priest Ioann Mikhailovich Orlovskii, 1905” and “Diary of Archpriest I. G., 1871.” Presented at “Faith and Story in Imperial Russia” held at the University of Alberta, Canada on October 1, 2010.          

“Can Stateless Refugees be Colonists? Attempts to Recreate Imperial Russia by First Wave Émigrés in Africa, China and South America.” Presented at the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley on January 28, 2009.

“Political Usage of the Private: Late Imperial Russian Clerical Childhoods as Heaven on Earth.” Presented to the Russian History Workshop at the University of California at Berkeley, February 15, 2005.

“A Secular Priesthood: Clergymen’s Sons and a Revolution of the Self in Imperial Russia.” Presented to the History Department at the University of California at Berkeley, February 14, 2005.

“Bearers of Tradition, Harbingers of Modernity: The Orthodox Origins of Intelli­gentsia Ethos.” Presented to the Center for Russian and East European Studies and the Department of History of Stanford University, May 10, 2001.

“The Religious Dimensions of the Modern Self: A Lesson from “Backward” Russia.” Presented at the Workshop on Modern European History at the University of Arizona, February 2, 2001.

“The Other Intelligentsia: Orthodoxy and Modern Selfhood in Imperial Russia.” Presented at the University Seminar on Slavic History and Culture, Columbia University, March 3, 2000.

“Orthodoxy, Secularization, and the Modern Self: From Clergy to Intelligentsia in Late Imperial Russia.” Presented at the Russian History Workshop of The Harriman Institute at Columbia University, April 30, 1999.

“Christian Self-Fashioning and Modernity: The Case of Late Imperial Russia” Presented at the “Revolution and the Making of Modern Political Identity,” conference held at Tel Aviv University, January 13, 1999.

"Between Priest and People: Representations of Parish Clergywomen in Imperial Russia." Presented at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, December 12, 1997.

"Holy Exodus: Departure from the Clerical Estate in Imperial Russia." Presented at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 20, 1997.

"The Secularization of the Quest for Salvation: The Common Ways of Thinking which Link Russian Revolutionaries, Theologians and Professionals."  Presented at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., December 11, 1995.