Erika Monahan
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Alexander von Humboldt fellow, University of Cologne, Germany 2023-2024
Co-editor, "History Ex Silo" podcast series
Visiting associate professor, 2018–19
Associate professor, University of New Mexico
Contact
Carson Hall, Room C211
HB 6107
Department(s)
History
Education
- B.A. Dartmouth College
- MA, Ph.D. Stanford University
Selected Publications
Book
The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern Eurasia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016). • Russian translation by Publisher NLO (Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie), forthcoming 2023. • Winner, 2018 W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize for a first monograph of exceptional merit and lasting significance for understanding Russia's past
Edited volumes
Muscovy and the World: An Empire in Search of Limits, ed. by Michael Flier, Nancy Kollmann, Erika Monahan and Daniel B. Rowland (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, forthcoming 2023).
Early Modern Trade in the Caspian Sea Region, ed. by Erika Monahan and Matthew Romaniello. Russian Studies in History Vol. 60, Nos. 1–4, 1–7 (2022).
Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics–Institutions–Culture. Essays Honoring Nancy Shields Kollmann. Edited by Michael Flier, Valerie Kivelson, Erika Monahan, and Daniel B. Rowland (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2017).
Scholarly Articles
"What did Müller Know? Remezov's Maps and the 'Father of Siberian History'," in Muscovy and the World: An Empire in Search of Limits (forthcoming 2023).
"Bukharan Eurasian Trade Networks in Eurasia," in Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian Commercial History, ed. David Ludden (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023).
"Tents or Towns: The Limits of Sovereignty in the Russian North in the Seventeenth Century," in Picturing Imperial Russia, eds. Valerie Kivelson, Sergei Kozlov, and Joan Neuberger (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 84–92.
"Binding Siberia: Semën Remezov's Khorograficheskaia kniga in Time and Through Time," in The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 to Present, edited by Tricia Starks, Alison Smith, and Matthew Romaniello (NY: Bloomsbury, 2021), pp. 171–90.
"Locating Rhubarb: Early Modernity's Relevant Obscurity," in Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500–1800, ed. Paula Findlen (London: Routledge, 2021, 2nd ed.; 2013, 1st ed.).
"Arctic Reckonings," Review of Bathsheba Demuth, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2019). New Rambler Review. Sept. 2, 2020.
"Moving Pictures: Tobol'sk 'Traveling' in Early Modern Texts," Canadian-American Slavic Studies 52.2–3 (forthcoming, 2018).
"Salt Wars and Salted Coffee: At Home with the Filat'evs," in Seeing Muscovy Anew: Politics–Institutions–Culture. Essays Honoring Nancy Shields Kollmann. Edited by Michael Flier, Valerie Kivelson, Erika Monahan, and Daniel K. Rowland (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2017).
"Gavril Romanov Nikitin: A Merchant Portrait," in Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500–Present, ed. by Willard Sunderland and Stephen Norris (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2012).
"Uraisko Kaibulin: Bukharan in a Borderland," in Portraits of Old Russia: Imagined Lives of Ordinary People, 1300–1725, ed. by Donald Ostrowski and Marshall T. Poe (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2011).
Other Writing
"Introducing History Ex Silo." From the Editors, Kritika, Vol. 24, no. 1 (2023).
"Scenes from a Refugee Help Center," Los Angeles Review of Books, April 20, 2022.
"Russia's Descent into Bombing Jewish 'Nazis' in Ukraine," Medium.com, March 4, 2022.
