Krista Goff

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Krista Goff
Academic background
Education
Thesis What Makes a People? Soviet Nationality Politics and Minority Experience After World War Two (2014)
Doctoral advisorDouglas Northrop, Ronald Grigor Suny

Krista A. Goff is an American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, who specializes in Soviet nationality politics and the history of the Caucasus in the 20th century.

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Education

Goff received a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College and Master of Arts from Brown University. She then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in history from the University of Michigan. [1] She also studied at universities in Saint Petersburg, Irkutsk and Baku. [2]

Career

Since 2021, Goff has been a co-editor of Kritika journal. [3] That same year, with Cornell University Press, she published Nested Nationalism, a work on nationality policy in Soviet Azerbaijan. [4] [5]

As of 2024, she is an associate professor of history at the University of Miami. She is also the co-director of the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES) program at Howard University. [6]

Awards and honors

Nested Nationalism has received the Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies (2021), [7] Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History (2021), [8] [9] Baker-Burton Award, and Biennial Best Book in Slavic Studies Award. [10] In 2023, Goff won the Dan David Prize. [10] [11]

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Articles

Books

Thesis

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References

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