- Biography
- Teaching
- Research and Creative Activity
- Grants
- Honors and Awards
- Service
Education
Ph.D., Joint Degree - History and Jewish Studies, The University of Chicago Chicago Illinois
M.A., Social Sciences, The University of Chicago Chicago Illinois
B.A., Double Major - History and Political Science, Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville New York
| Semester | Course Prefix | Course Number | Course Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2024 | HIS | 3538 | The Holocaust in Hist & Mem |
| Spring 2024 | JWS | 3538 | The Holocaust in Hist & Mem |
| Fall 2023 | FYS | 1000 | Freshman Seminar |
| Fall 2023 | HIS | 3352 | Rus Rev & Sov Regime |
| Fall 2023 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2023 | FYS | 1000 | Freshman Seminar |
| Spring 2023 | IDC | 4050H | Hon Feit Hum Sem I |
| Spring 2023 | HIS | 1000 | Themes in American History |
| Fall 2022 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2022 | JWS | 4900 | Mapping the Jewish Experience |
| Spring 2022 | HIS | 3352 | Rus Rev & Sov Regime |
| Spring 2022 | HIS | 3460 | Topics in American History |
| Fall 2021 | HIS | 3950 | Special Topics in Global Histo |
| Fall 2021 | HIS | 3950 | Special Topics in Global Histo |
| Fall 2021 | JWS | 3950 | Special Topics in Jewish Studi |
| Fall 2021 | JWS | 3950 | Special Topics in Jewish Studi |
| Spring 2021 | JWS | 5000 | Independent Study JWS I |
| Fall 2020 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2020 | JWS | 4900 | Mapping the Jewish Experience |
| Fall 2020 | HIS | 3460 | Topics in American History |
| Spring 2019 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Spring 2019 | JWS | 3538 | The Holocaust in Hist & Mem |
| Spring 2019 | HIS | 3538 | The Holocaust in Hist & Mem |
| Fall 2018 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2018 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Fall 2018 | HIS | 5000 | Independent Study History I |
| Spring 2018 | JWS | 3950 | Special Topics in Jewish Studi |
| Spring 2018 | JWS | 3950 | Special Topics in Jewish Studi |
| Spring 2018 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Spring 2018 | HIS | 3950 | Special Topics in Global Histo |
| Fall 2017 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2017 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Spring 2016 | JWS | 4900 | Mapping the Jewish Experience |
| Spring 2016 | HIS | 4900 | Capstone: Search His |
| Spring 2016 | HIS | 1003H | Honors - Global History 1500 |
| Spring 2016 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2015 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Spring 2015 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2015 | IDC | 4050H | Hon Feit Hum Sem I |
| Spring 2015 | ENG | 3940 | Topics in Film |
| Fall 2014 | HIS | 3351 | Russia Under the Tsars |
| Fall 2014 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2014 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2014 | JWS | 3950 | Special Topics in Jewish Studi |
| Spring 2014 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Spring 2014 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2013 | HIS | 3352 | Rus Rev & Sov Regime |
| Fall 2013 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
Artistic and Creative Activities
Sloin, A. (2023). Between Blues and Tsures: Translation and Musical Desegregation. BRESI.
Books
Sloin, A. (2017). The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press.
Journal Articles
Sloin, A. (2023). “Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto”. Past & Present, 258(1). 181-211.
Sloin, A. (2021). "Kto fashist? Jews, Nazis and Stalinist Antifascism". Judaic-Slavic Journal, 6(2). 101-126.
Sloin, A. (2021). "The Skotsboro Boys in Minsk". In Geveb: A Journal of Jewish Studies,
Sloin, A., & Sanchez-Sibony, O. (2019). “¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿ ¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿: 1917—1939”.
Sloin, A. (2016). Theorizing Soviet Anti-Semitism: Value, Crisis, and Stalinist "Modernity". Critical Historical Studies, 3(2). 249-281.
Sloin, A. (2016). Theorizing Soviet Antisemitism: Value, Crisis, and Stalinist “Modernity” (Chinese Version). Remapping«¿¿»,¿¿¿¿¿¿¿), 209-241.
Sloin, A. (2014). The Politics of Crisis: Economy, Ethnicity, and Trotskyism in Belorussia. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 15(1). 51-76.
Sloin, A., & Sanchez-Sibony, O. (2014). [Introduction to Edited Special Issue] Economy and Power in the Soviet Union, 1917-1939. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 15(1). 7-22.
Sloin, A. (2013). Karl Marx and the Soviet Jewish Experiment. Frankel Institute Annual, 2012, 2012(1). 35-39.
Sloin, A. (2010). Speculators, Swindlers, and Other Jews: Regulating Trade in Revolutionary White Russia. East European Jewish Affairs, 40(2). 103-125.
Book Chapters
"The Socialist Robot: Labor, Commodities, and the Crisis of the Eastern Bloc". Rethinking Soviet Labor History In Progress.
Media Contributions
Sloin, A. J., & Sanchez-Sibony, O. (2022). "War in the Pipelands".
Sloin, A. J., & Sanchez-Sibony, O. (2022). "Nord Stream Boom".
Presentations
Sloin, A. J. (2024, May 12). “Josephus in Ukraine: Popularized Narratives of Jewish Revolts against the Roman Empire". New Perspectives and Works in Progress on Ukrainian Jewry. Jewish Theological Seminary: Jewish Theological Seminary.
Sloin, A. J. (2024, November 12). "The Fall of the Socialist Robots and the Rise of Petro-Commodity Capitalism". Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Philadelphia, PA: ASEEES.
Sloin, A. J. (2024, November 12). "The Crisis of Fordism in the Eastern Bloc". Social Sciences Historical Association (SSHA). : SSHA.
Sloin, A. J. Concluding Roundtable Discussant, “Industrious Nations: Reconsidering Nationality and Economy in the Soviet Union”. Industrious Nations: Reconsidering Nationality and Economy in the Soviet Union. Princeton University: Princeton University.
Sloin, A. (2021, April 30). "Wage Labor, "Socialist" Commodities, and the Creation of Soviet Capitalism". Global Capitalism and the Worlds of Socialism. Hong Kong / Online: University of Hong Kong.
Sloin, A. (2020, January 31). "The Third Roman Revolt: Imagining Judea in Revolutionary Russia". University of Pennsylvania Russian Studies Seminar. Philadelphia, PA: UPenn.
Sloin, A. (2020, November 30). "Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto". North Carolina Jewish Studies Symposium. Online: Duke University.
Sloin, A. (2019, November 30). "Wage Labor and 'Socialist' Commodities". Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). San Francisco
Sloin, A. (2018, November 30). “Mars, Marx, and Machines: Alienation and Soviet Science Fiction”. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Boston, MA
Sloin, A. (2017, March 23). Who is a Fascist? Jews, Nazis, and Stalinist Antifascism. Trajectories of Antifascism. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University.
Sloin, A. (2017, November 30). Anti-Fascism and the Great Terror. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Chicago, Illinois: Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Sloin, A. (2017, May 24). On the Fascist Jew: Imagining Nazis in Soviet Print Culture. Zionism and Anti-Semitism. London, England: Pears Institute, Birkbeck, University of London.
Sloin, A. (2017, May 13). Fear of the Red Planet: Alienation and Socialist Power. Beyond 1917: Socialism, Power, and Social Change in Global Perspective. Oxford, England: Wadham College, Oxford University.
Sloin, A. (2017, April 23). The image of the Jew in Soviet Anti-Fascist and Anti-Nazi Propaganda. A Symposium on Antisemitism, Anti-Fascism and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. Tel Aviv, Israel: Tel Aviv Univerity.
Sloin, A. (2016, June 15). Kto Fashist? Imagining Nazis in Soviet Print Culture. Soviet Jewish History: New Sources, New Approaches. Moscow, Russia: Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center / University of Higher Economics.
Sloin, A. (2015, September 5). Value, Crisis, and the Recrudescences of Soviet Anti-Semitism. 20th Century Socialism: Ideas and Practices in Soviet-Russia and China. Beijing, China: Tsinghua University.
Sloin, A. (2015, January 6). Reconsidering 'State Capitalism' in Light of the Sources. American Historical Association. New York, NY: AHA.
Sloin, A. (2014, November 20). How Yiddish Communism Made Russian Zionism: The Peculiarities of Soviet Jewish History. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). San Antonio, Texas: ASEEES.
Sloin, A. (2014, June 18). Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto. Narratives of Violence. Budapest, Hungary: International Consortium for Research on Antisemitism and Racism / Central European University.
Sloin, A., & Sloin, A. (2013, February 15). Messianism in the Age of Utopias: Moshe Kulbak's ‘Yakov Frank’. Jews and Utopia. New Orleans, Louisiana: Tulane University.
Sloin, A. (2013, November 24). Anti-Semitism and the Crises of Soviet Capitalism. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Boston, Massachusetts: ASEEES.
Sloin, A. (2013, February 15). Economy, Ethnicity, and Trotskyism in Belorussia. Bloomington, Indiana: Borns Jewish Studies Program.
Sloin, A. (2012, August 12). Between Utopia and Revolution: The Haskalah and Modern Jewish Politics. Vilnius Yiddish Institute Summer Program. Vilnius, Lithuania: Vilnius Yiddish Institute.
Sloin, A. (2012, April 18). Making Jews Bolsheviks. Frankel Institute Workshop. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies.
Sloin, A. (2012, July 25). Geographies of Eastern European Jewry. Vilnius Yiddish Institute Summer Program. Vilnius, Lithuania: Vilnius Yiddish Institute.
Sloin, A. (2012, August 1). Halakah, Heresy, and Hasidism: Jewish Religious Culture in Early Modern Poland. Vilnius Yiddish Institute Summer Program. Vilnius, Lithuania: Vilnius Yiddish Institute.
Sloin, A. (2012, August 15). A Tale of Two Cities: Vilna, Minsk, and the Age of Revolution. Vilnius Yiddish Institute Summer Program. Vilnius, Lithuania: Vilnius Yiddish Institute.
Sloin, A. (2012, September 15). Vilna: Past, Present, and Future. Miami, Florida: Jewish Museum of Florida.
Sloin, A. (2011, November 15). Radical Shoemakers and Revolutionary Jews: 'Jewish' Radicalism in the European Mirror. Symposion on Jews and Politics. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies.
Sloin, A. (2011, November 22). Shoe Fetishes: Leather, Shoes, and Revolutionary Jewish Politics. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Washington, DC: ASEEES.
Sloin, A. (2011, December 15). Trotskyism and the Jewess Question: Gender and Politics on the Stalinist Shop Floor. Critical Historical Studies. Chicago, Illinois: 3CT Center at the University of Chicago.
Sloin, A. (2008, November 24). The Oktiabr’ Affair and the Jewess Question: Anti-Semitism and Gender on a Soviet Factory Floor. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: ASEEES.
Sloin, A. (2007, November 22). Speculators, Swindlers, and Other Jews: Policing Economic Crimes in Revolutionary Belorussia. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). New Orleans, Louisiana: ASEEES.
Sloin, A. (2006, November 22). Tates and Deti (Fathers and Children): Generational and ‘Class’ Conflict in Late Imperial Jewish Minsk. Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). Washington, DC: ASEEES.
Reviews
Sloin, A. J. (1970,January 1). "Jews and Race, Between Empire and Post-Coloniality". Lawrence, KS: Russian Review.
Sloin, A. (2019,September 1). Review of Eliyahu Stern, Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s. The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 92, No. 3 (September 2020).
Sloin, A. (2019,August 1). Review of M.A. Tumshis and V.A. Zolotarev, Evrei v NKVD SSSR. East European Affairs, Vol. 49, Issue 1 (2019). East European Jewish Affairs.
Sloin, A. (2018,April 1). A Vanished Ideology. American Jewish Histoy.
Sloin, A. (2018,April 1). Choice, Politics, and the Anomalies of Survival. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.
Sloin, A. (2015,October 1). The Other Jewish Question. Russian History.
Sloin, A. (2014,March 19). Review, The International Jewish Labor Bund After 1945: Toward a Global History. West Lafayette, Indiana,USA: Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies.
Research Currently in Progess
Sloin, A.(n.d.). Troubled Time: International Socialism and the Yiddish Historical Imagination, 1871-1948. In Progress.
Sloin, A. J.(n.d.). We, Robot: Socialism, Automation, and the Machine Age. In Progress.
| Title | Funding Agency Sponsor | Start Date | End Date | Awarded Date | Total Funding | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troubled Time: Socialism and the Yiddish Historical Imagination, 1871-1948 | PSC-CUNY 49 | 07/01/2018 | 06/30/2019 | 04/15/2018 | 3500 | Completed |
| Troubled Time: Socialism and the Yiddish Historical Imagination, 1871-1948 | PSC-CUNY 48 | 07/01/2017 | 06/30/2018 | 04/14/2017 | 3500 | Completed |
| Troubled Time: Socialism and the Yiddish Historical Imagination | Eugene Lang Fellowship | 06/01/2017 | 07/17/2017 | 05/10/2017 | 6132 | Completed |
| Troubled Time: Socialism and the Yiddish Historical Imagination, 1871-1948 | PSC-CUNY 47 | 07/01/2016 | 06/30/2017 | 04/15/2016 | 6000 | Completed |
| Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto: Ethnic and Class Violence in the Interwar Jewish Imaginary | PSC-CUNY 45 | 07/01/2014 | 06/30/2015 | 04/15/2014 | 3500 | Completed |
| We Robot: Socialism, Automation, and the Machine Age | PSC-CUNY 54 | 07/01/2023 | 06/30/2024 | 04/18/2023 | 3500 | Funded - In Progress |
| BRESI: Between Blues and Tsures: Translation and Musical Desegregation | The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | 09/01/2022 | 10/15/2023 | 08/19/2022 | 4000 | Funded - In Progress |
| Honor / Award | Organization Sponsor | Date Received | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorothy Rosenberg Book Prize | American Historical Association (AHA) | 2018 | Recognizes the most distinguished work of scholarship on the history of the Jewish diaspora published in English during the previous calendar year |
| Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship | Baruch College | 2017 | |
| Helen B. Schwartz Fund for New Initiatives Book Prize | Indiana University Borns Jewish Studies Program | 2016 | The fund is specifically designed to lend publishing support to first books that show special distinction or merit—and that have already been accepted for publication by IU Press. |
| Von Holst Prize Lectureship | The University of Chicago | 2007 | Awarded prize lectureship to teach an original course on "Jews and Modernity in Eastern Europe." |
College
| Committee Name | Position Role | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| College P&B Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| Co-Director Wasserman Jewish Studies Center | Co-Director | Present | |
| Wasserman Jewish Studies Center Board | Committee Member | Present | |
| College Academic Review Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| Feit Seminar Program | Director | Present | |
| Curriculum Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| Honors Advisory Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| History Department Executive Committee | Committee Member | Present | |
| Department Self-Study Committee | Committee Member | 3/30/2018 | |
| Committee on the Library | Committee Member | 7/31/2016 | |
| Strategic Planning Committee | Committee Member | 5/12/2016 | |
| History Club | Faculty Advisor | 6/1/2015 | |
| Jewish Studies Conference Planning Committee | Committee Member | 5/30/2014 |
Professional
| Organization | Position Role | Organization State | Organization Country | Start Date | End Date | Audience |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Historical Studies | Editorial Review Board Member | Illinois | United States | 1/1/2013 | Present | |
| Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies | Member | 9/1/2000 | Present | |||
| Association for Jewish Studies | Member | 9/1/2005 | Present | |||
| American Historical Association | Member | 9/1/2007 | Present |