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Lynn M. Sargeant

Department of History                                                                           201 E Chapman Ave.

California State University, Fullerton                                                       Apt. 11J

800 N State College Blvd                                                                       Placentia, CA  92870

Fullerton, CA  92834-6846                                                                     (714) 572-1635

(657) 278-3506                                                                                                             

lsargeant@fullerton.edu                                                                                                                                                

Education

Ph. D.  History, Indiana University, Bloomington                                                            2001

Dissertation: "Middle Class Culture: Music and Identity in Late Imperial Russia."

                        Adviser: Ben Eklof

Fields:   Russian and Soviet History, Modern European History,

Russian and East European Area Studies.

M.A.    History, Indiana University, Bloomington                                                             1996

B.A.     Russian Area Studies, University of Washington, Seattle                                      1994

B.S.     Music Education, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities                                         1989

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND PEDAGOGICAL TRAINING

Assistant Professor, Department of History, California State University, Fullerton          2004

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Colorado College                         2001-03          

Associate Instructor, Department of History, Indiana University                                   2001

Visiting Lecturer, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University                     2000

Guest Lecturer, Oasis Centers for Mature Adults, Indianapolis                                      2000

Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Indiana University                                         2000

Participant, Teaching College History, Indiana University, Department of History         1998

MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS AND HONORS

Summer Stipend                                                                                                         2005

California State University Special Fund for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

Postdoctoral Fellowship                                                                                             2003-04

National Academy of Education/The Spencer Foundation

Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship (declined)                                                          2001-02

Department of History, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Dissertation Fellowship                                                                                              2001

Department of History, Indiana University

Scholar Award                                                                                                             1999-00

P.E.O. Foundation.  Competitive national research grant.  Supported dissertation

field research in the Russian Federation.

Grant-in-Aid of Research                                                                                           1999

Department of History, Indiana University

Dissertation Fellowship                                                                                              1999

Department of History, Indiana University

Title VIII Fellowship                                                                                                   1998-99

U.S. Department of Education.  Supported dissertation research and Ukrainian

language training in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Ukrainian)                                             1998-99

Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University

Mikal Lynn Sousa Award for Excellence in Graduate Scholarship                        1998

College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University

Hill Fellowship                                                                                                            1997-98

Department of History, Indiana University

Valerie J. Gulick Fellowship                                                                                      1997-98

Department of History, Indiana University

Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship                                                                      1997

Office of International Programs, Indiana University

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Russian)                                                1994-95

Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University

Coffman Alumni Scholar                                                                                             1988-89

College of Education, University of Minnesota

National Merit Scholar                                                                                               1985-89

University of Minnesota

PUBLICATIONS and WORKS IN PROGRESS

Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian Cultural Life, 1861-1917

            Book manuscript, under consideration by Oxford University Press.

"Kashchei the Immortal: Liberal Politics, Cultural Memory, and the Rimsky-Korsakov Scandal of 1905."

       Russian Review 64, no. 1 (January) 2005: 22-43.

"A New Class of People: The Conservatory and Musical Professionalization in Russia, 1861-1917."          Music and Letters 84, no. 1 (February) 2004: 41-61.

"Ambivalence and Desire: State, Society, and Music Education in Russia."  In Musical Life in Europe     (1770-1914): Compositional, Institutional, and Political Challenges, edited by Michael Fend and      Michel Noiray.  Berlin: BMV, 2005.

BOOK REVIEWS

Amy Nelson, Music for the Revolution: Musicians and Power in Early Soviet Russia.  University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2004.  Reviewed for H-Russia.

Louise McReynolds, Russia at Play: Leisure Activities at the End of the Tsarist Era.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.  Reviewed for H-Russia, May 2004.

Dmitrii Shostakovich, Story of a Friendship: The Letters of Dmitry Shostakovich to Isaak Glikman, 1941-1975. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.  Reviewed for H-Russia, September 2003.

Svetlana Zvereva, Alexander Kastalsky: His Life and Music.  Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003.  Reviewed for Music and Letters.

PRESENTATIONS

"Singing the Nation into Being: Teaching Identity and Culture in the Russian Classroom before the Revolution."

            American Educational Research Association,

Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, April 11-15, 2005.

"Glinka's Unwanted Stepchildren: Working Musicians and Professionalization in the Age of Tolstoi."

            University of California, Berkeley conference, Glinka and His Legacies, April 7-9, 2005.

"Very Musical People: The Capitals, the Provinces, and the Meanings of 'Russian' Music."

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

36^th National Convention, Boston, MA, December, 2004.

Roundtable Participant, "Sounds as Identity Symbols: The Potential for a 'Musical Turn' in the Study of Modern Eastern Europe."

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

36^th National Convention, Boston, MA, December, 2004.

"At the Schoolhouse Door: Music in Education in Late Imperial Russia."

            National Academy of Education, Annual Meeting, Stanford, CA, October, 2004.

Roundtable Participant, "Teaching Slavic Studies in the 21^st Century."

            American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

            35^th National Convention, Toronto, ONT, 2003.

"Local Patrons, Local Culture: Music in the Russian Provinces, 1861-1917."

            American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

            34^th National Convention, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002.

Group Member, Working Group 5: "National Representations of Music; Conservatories and Musical Discourse, c. 1770-1900," of the European Science Foundation project Musical Life in Europe.

            Brussels, Belgium          1999

            Mainz, Germany            2000

            London, England            2001

"Seedbeds of Civilization: Music Education in the Provinces."

            Midwest Russian History Workshop, Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2000

"(Re)Constructing Musical Talent: Ability, Ideology, and Music Education in the Cultural Revolution."

            American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

            29^th National Convention, Seattle, WA, 1997

"The Social Politics of Music: Revolutionary Legitimacy and Artistic Integrity in the Moscow and Leningrad Conservatories, 1917-1932."

            Regional AAASS Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, OH, 1997

TEACHING INTERESTS

Modern Russian and Soviet History                                Russian/European Women's History

Migration and World History                                          History, Memory, and Commemoration

Nations, Nationalism, and Empires                                  Arts and Popular Culture in History

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Social history of Russian music, 1800-1932

Comparative history of culture and the arts

History of adult and popular education in Russia

Social and cultural development of the Russian provinces after 1861

Migration, refugees, and diasporas in the modern world

RESEARCH LANGUAGES

Russian                                                                        

Ukrainian                                                                                                                                                                     

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

The American Historical Association

The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

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