Laura Engelstein
Henry S. McNeil Professor of History
Department Chair
Office: HGS 226, HGS 239 (Chair)
Phone: (203) 432-1378, 432-1364 (Chair)
Email: laura.engelstein@yale.edu
Laura Engelstein joined the history faculty in the fall of 2002 as professor in the field of modern Russian and European history. She received her PhD from Stanford in 1976 and taught at Cornell and at Princeton until coming to Yale. Her research has focused on the social and cultural history of late imperial Russia, with attention to the role of law, medicine, and the arts in public life. She has also explored themes in the history of gender, sexuality, and religion.
Among her publications are Moscow, 1905: Working-Class Organization and Political Conflict (1982); The Keys to Happiness: Sex and the Search for Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Russia (1992); and Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale (1999), as well as an essay collection edited with Stephanie Sandler, Self and Story in Russian History (2000).
Professor Engelstein has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
