The second lecture in the Havighurst Center's spring 2024 colloquium series on "Revolutionary Russia" will focus on how Russian Orthodox believers responded to early Soviet anti-religious policies.
Christine Worobec has written numerous path-breaking books and articles, especially her monographs Peasant Russia: Family and Community in the Post-Emancipation Period (Princeton University Press), which won the Association of Women in Slavic Studies (AWSS) Heldt Prize for the Best Book by a Woman in 1991, and Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons in Imperial Russia (Northern Illinois University Press), which won the Heldt Prize for the Best Book in Women’s Studies a decade later. Worobec has also collaborated on reference works including Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: A Comprehensive Bibliography (with Mary Zirin, Irina Livezeanu, and June Pachuta-Farris). Among Worobec’s edited essay collections, Russia’s Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation (with Barbara E. Clements and Barbara A. Engel) is particularly noteworthy. Most recently, she worked to map and analyze Orthodox pilgrimages in modern Ukraine and Russia.
