Nicole Eaton, May 8
The Russian History Seminar will hold its last meeting of the 2014-2015 academic year on Friday, May 8, 5:00pm-6:15pm in ICC 662 on the Georgetown University campus. Nicole Eaton will present her paper, “German Bodies, Soviet Medicine: Ideology, Disease, and Contamination in Kaliningrad, 1945-1948.”
Nicole Eaton is well known to the Russian History Seminar as one of our members during her time in 2014 as a Fellow at the Kennan Institute. She has just finished a stint as visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan. She has also been a postdoctoral fellow at the W. Averell Harriman Institute at Columbia, and in fall 2015 she will start a tenure-track job at Boston College. Eaton received her PhD from Berkeley in 2013 with a dissertation on on a single decade of politics, and everyday life, and the German-Soviet encounter in Königsberg-Kaliningrad—unique as the only place ruled by both Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Russia as their own patrimony. Her work explores the way both regimes attempted to transform the city’s urban space and its inhabitants, arguing that the intersection of national prescriptions and local conditions gave rise to conflicting practices.