Krista A. Goff is an American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, who specializes in Soviet nationality politics and the history of the Caucasus in the 20th century.
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| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | What Makes a People? Soviet Nationality Politics and Minority Experience After World War Two (2014) |
| Doctoral advisor | Douglas Northrop, Ronald Grigor Suny |
Education
editGoff received a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College and Master of Arts from Brown University. She then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in history from the University of Michigan.[1] She also studied at universities in Saint Petersburg, Irkutsk and Baku.[2]
Career
editSince 2021, Goff has been a co-editor of Kritika journal.[3] That same year, with Cornell University Press, she published Nested Nationalism, a work on non-titular nationalities and nationality policy in Soviet Azerbaijan.[4][5]
As of 2024, she is an associate professor of history at the University of Miami. She is also the co-director of the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES) program at Howard University.[6]
Awards and honors
editNested Nationalism has received the Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies (2021),[7] Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History (2021),[8][9] Baker-Burton Award, and Biennial Best Book in Slavic Studies Award.[10] In 2023, Goff won the Dan David Prize.[10][11]
Publications
editArticles
edit- Goff, Krista A. (January 2015). ""Why not love our language and our culture?" National rights and citizenship in Khrushchev's Soviet Union". Nationalities Papers. 43 (1): 27–44. doi:10.1080/00905992.2014.972351. ISSN 0090-5992.
- Goff, Krista (2022). "Postwar Rebuilding and Resettlements in the Soviet Union: A Case of Azeri Migration". Slavic Review. 81 (1): 97–121. doi:10.1017/slr.2022.86. ISSN 0037-6779.
Books
edit- Goff, Krista A.; Siegelbaum, Lewis H., eds. (2019). Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands. Ithaca, NY London: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-3614-8.
- Goff, Krista A. (2020). Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus. Ithaca (N. Y.): Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-5327-5.[12]
Thesis
edit- Goff, Krista (2014). What Makes a People? Soviet Nationality Politics and Minority Experience After World War Two (Ph.D. thesis). University of Michigan. ProQuest 2794517437.
References
edit- ^ "Dr. Krista A. Goff, Nested Nationalism Book Event – The European History Workshop". University of Michigan. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ "Krista Goff". Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Harvard University. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ "Welcome to Krista Goff". Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. October 25, 2021. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
- ^ "Krista A. Goff, "Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus"". February 18, 2022. Archived from the original on May 22, 2023. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
- ^ Shakarian, Pietro A. (2021-10-27). "Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus, written by Krista A. Goff". The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 49 (1): 104–108. doi:10.30965/18763324-bja10046. ISSN 1876-3324. Archived from the original on 2022-12-05. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ "Krista Goff". University of Miami. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ "2021 Rothschild Prize". Association for the Study of Nationalities. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ "PAST WINNERS OF THE REGINALD ZELNIK BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY". Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Archived from the original on 2023-07-22. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ Goff, Krista (2021-12-16). "Dr. Krista Goff Honored with Rothschild Prize and Reginald Zelnik Book Prize for Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Union | Wilson Center". Wilson Center. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ a b "Krista Goff". Dan David Prize. 2023-02-28. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ del Campo, Deserae E. "Historian receives highly acclaimed Dan David Prize". University of Miami. Archived from the original on 2023-04-26. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
- ^ Goff, Krista A. (2020). Nested Nationalism. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501753282. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctvxbpfkn. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-06-21.