- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | HIST | 80100 | Independent Historical Resch |
| Fall 2025 | HIS | 3356 | Revolutionary Film: Interwar E |
| Spring 2025 | HIST | 72600 | Actually Existing Socialisms |
| Fall 2024 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| 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 | FYS | 1000 | Freshman Seminar |
| Fall 2023 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2023 | HIS | 3352 | Rus Rev & Sov Regime |
| 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 | HIS | 3460 | Topics in American History |
| Spring 2022 | HIS | 3352 | Rus Rev & Sov Regime |
| Spring 2022 | JWS | 4900 | Mapping the Jewish Experience |
| Fall 2021 | JWS | 3950 | Special Topics in Jewish Studi |
| Fall 2021 | JWS | 3950 | Special Topics in Jewish Studi |
| Fall 2021 | HIS | 3950 | Special Topics in Global Histo |
| Fall 2021 | HIS | 3950 | Special Topics in Global Histo |
| Spring 2021 | JWS | 5000 | Independent Study JWS I |
| Fall 2020 | HIS | 3460 | Topics in American History |
| Fall 2020 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2020 | JWS | 4900 | Mapping the Jewish Experience |
| Spring 2019 | JWS | 3538 | The Holocaust in Hist & Mem |
| Spring 2019 | HIS | 3538 | The Holocaust in Hist & Mem |
| Spring 2019 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Fall 2018 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2018 | HIS | 5000 | Independent Study History I |
| Fall 2018 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Spring 2018 | HIS | 3950 | Special Topics in Global Histo |
| Spring 2018 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Spring 2018 | JWS | 3950 | Special Topics in Jewish Studi |
| Spring 2018 | JWS | 3950 | Special Topics in Jewish Studi |
| Fall 2017 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Fall 2017 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Spring 2016 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2016 | HIS | 1003H | Honors - Global History 1500 |
| Spring 2016 | JWS | 4900 | Mapping the Jewish Experience |
| Spring 2016 | HIS | 4900 | Capstone: Search His |
| Spring 2015 | IDC | 4050H | Hon Feit Hum Sem I |
| Spring 2015 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| Spring 2015 | HIS | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| 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 | 1003 | Global His Since1500 |
| Spring 2014 | HIS | 3360 | Topics in European History |
| 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. (2029). Troubled Time: International Socialism and the Yiddish Historical Imagination, 1871-1948. In Progress.
Sloin, A. J. (2028). We, Robot: Automation and the Machine Age in the Socialist World. London, UK, Verso Books. In Progress.
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
(2026). "The Socialist Robot: Labor, Commodities, and the Crisis of the Eastern Bloc". Soviet Workers in the World: Soviet Labor and Working Class History in Global Context Lanham, MD. Lexington Books.
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. (2026, May 3). “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. (2026, November 3). "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. (2026, November 3). "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, November 30). "Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto". North Carolina Jewish Studies Symposium. Online: Duke University.
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. (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, 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, 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, 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. (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. (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, January 6). Reconsidering 'State Capitalism' in Light of the Sources. American Historical Association. New York, NY: AHA.
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. (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, February 15). Economy, Ethnicity, and Trotskyism in Belorussia. Bloomington, Indiana: Borns Jewish Studies Program.
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. (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, 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, 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, September 15). Vilna: Past, Present, and Future. Miami, Florida: Jewish Museum of Florida.
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. (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. (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. (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.
| 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 |