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Nancy Yanoshak

Interests

Teaching Interests: Russian History, all periods, with a specialization in the Muscovite Period, Women's History and Women's Studies, Feminist Theory, European History, Contemporary Critical Theory, in particular the works of Michel Foucault, Critical Film analysis, History of sexuality

Research Interests: Muscovite Russian History, Soviet film in the 1920s, contemporary critical theory, and feminist theory.

Biography

PhD, Georgetown University
MA, The Pennsylvania State University
BA (with high distinction), The Pennsylvania State University

Nancy Yanoshak did archival work in the Soviet Union as an International Research and Exchange Board Scholar, and was a research associate at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, serving as assistant to Ambassador George Kennan. Dr. Yanoshak was also Secretary-Treasurer for the New England Slavic Association, and participated in "The Ends of Civilization: A Taking Stock on the Eve of the Millennium," a discussion program sponsored by the Massachusetts Foundation of the Humanities.

At Simon's Rock she served as Social Studies Division head for nearly ten years, and as Emily Fisher Faculty Fellow from 2007-2009. Dr. Yanoshak also co-directed the Early College Teaching Seminars, begun in 2005, to introduce Simon’s Rock pedagogical techniques to a national audience of educators. She directed the inaugural Senior Workshop, which continues to be an important introduction to the Senior Thesis project.  She taught at Simon's Rock from 1982-2015. 

Highlights

Awards/Grants

• Richard C. Drumm Sr. Award, 2009-2010
• John A. Glover Award, 2000-2001
• Bard College at Simon’s Rock Faculty Development Grants 1983-2011
• International Research and Exchanges Board Grant to do dissertation research in 1977-1978 in the Soviet Union
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Phi Alpha Theta
• Phi Kappa Phi

Publications & Presentations

• Publications on pre-Petrine Russian history and on Soviet Culture have appeared in Slavic Review,The Journal of Popular Culture, and Studies in Bibliography.
• Coauthored articles on feminist critique of contemporary cultural practices and interdisciplinary studies have appeared in Gender and Education and Afterimage.
• Presentations about her research on contemporary critical theory, early Soviet film, and the construction of Russian and American identities have been given to international audiences of Slavicists in the United Kingdom and scholars in the arts and humanities in Hawaii.
• Editor of Educating Outside the Lines: Bard College at Simon’s Rock on a ‘New Pedagogy’ for the Twenty-first Century, published in 2011.
• Authored a chapter on interdisciplinarity at Simon's Rock for this collection, and presented a paper on the latter at an international conference on education in 2011.