Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

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Address:
702 Wayne Hall
West Chester, PA 19382

Phone: 610-436-2201
Fax: 610-436-3069

Jean Bauer
Departmental Secretary
Office: 702 Wayne Hall
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Fax: 610-436-3069
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Dr. Robert Kodosky
Departmental Chairperson
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Dr. Karin Gedge
Social Studies Coordinator
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Brenda Gaydosh
Acting Graduate Coordinator
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Jonathan Friedman
Director, Holocaust-Genocide Studies
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Lisa

Lisa A. Kirschenbaum

Professor of History
731 Wayne
610-436-2997
LKirschenbaum@wcupa.edu
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Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught

HIS 102: History of Civilization, II
HIS 300: Varieties of History
HIS 324: Imperial Russia (culture cluster)
HIS 329: Gender and Peace (interdisciplinary)
HIS 400: Seminar -- Experience of World War II
HIS 424: World Communism (diverse communities)
HIS 425: Twentieth-Century Russia
HIS 540: Modern Russia
HIS 548: Women and the Holocaust

About Me

Professor Kirschenbaum has long combined a serious commitment to research with enthusiasm for teaching. While completing her PhD at University of California, Berkeley (1993), she taught middle and high school students at Oakwood School, an independent school in southern California. Since coming to West Chester in 1996, she has developed classes in Soviet and Russian history as well as thematic courses that transcend national boundaries.

Professor Kirschenbaum's research explores how people come to represent and understand their life stories as part of history, focusing on the linkages between individual, private lives and the momentous, often traumatic events of Russia's twentieth century. She has published three books: Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 (RoutledgeFalmer, 2000); The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1995: Myth, Memories, and Monuments (Cambridge University Press, 2006); and International Communism and the Spanish Civil War: Solidarity and Suspicion (Cambridge University Press 2015).

Professor Kirschenbaum's research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, the International Research and Exchanges Board, and the Penn Humanities Forum. In 2009, Professor Kirschenbaum was awarded the West Chester University Trustees' Achievement Award.