Emily Joan Elliott

I am the Associate Director of Research and Publications at H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. In that capacity, I direct H-Net Reviews, H-Net Journals, and the H-Net Book Channel. My passion is helping scholars and practitioners at all career-levels inside and outside the academy share and discover research and pedagogical resources. I also teach for the Michigan State University Department of History, focusing on the history of the Soviet Union, Europe, and social movements.

I am a historian of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia and earned my doctorate at Michigan State University in May 2019. I am the lead PI for “A Search for Research: Mapping Archives in a Time of War,” an MSU-funded project, which includes an interactive map with archives related to the histories of Russia and Ukraine but located outside those countries among other resources. I am also the co-editor of Soviet Workers in the World: Soviet Labor and Working-Class History in Global Context (Bloomsbury, forthcoming) and author of the chapter “The Soviet Dream and the Lake Placid Archipelago: Labor and Mobility in the 1980,” which is included in that volume.

After earning my degree, I pursued opportunities both inside and outside the academy. I did a tour of Michigan, teaching as contingent faculty at Grand Valley State University, Kalamazoo College, and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. I enjoy teaching a broad array of courses, including the history of Russia, the Soviet Union, modern Europe, socialism, and migration. I also worked as the Special Sections Editor for the Historical Society of Michigan’s magazines, where I helped freelance authors tell Michigan’s unique and diverse history in popular, high-quality magazines. I continued my foray into journalism as a reporter and later as as the Managing Editor for East Lansing Info. In that role, I reported on a variety of topics, ranging from East Lansing Public Schools, Covid-19, and community disparities. I valued my work at East Lansing Info because we not only delivered the news but also engaged residents who sought help and a place to be heard.

In my personal life, I enjoy travel, baking, crafting, and bike riding among other things.