Tracy K. Dennison's CV
Tracy K. Dennison
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology
1200 E California Blvd, MC 101-40, Pasadena CA 91125
+1 626-395-1742
tkd@hss.caltech.edu
Appointments
2009 - Associate Professor of History (without tenure), California Institute of Technology
2006-2009 - Assistant Professor of History, California Institute of Technology
2003-2006 - Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for History & Economics and Robinson College, University of Cambridge, UK
2005-2006 - Temporary Lecturer in Russian History, University of Cambridge Department of Slavonic Studies, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Affiliations
Associate Research Fellow, Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge UK
Research Associate, Centre for Quantitative Economic History, Cambridge UK
Education
2004 Ph.D. (History) Downing College, Cambridge
1999 M.Phil. (Economic and Social History) St Antony’s College, Oxford
1995-97 Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH), Moscow, Russia
1992 B.A. (Russian Language & Literature) Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Prizes/Awards
NSF award for Imperial Russian Incomes project as part of the Global Price and Income History Group(NSF: SES-0922531) (with Peter Lindert (PI), UC Davis, and Steven Nafziger, Williams College)
The Economic History Association Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for Best Dissertation in non-American Economic History (2004)
The Institute of Historical Research Pollard Prize for Best Paper Presented at an IHR Seminar (2004)
Research Fellowship 2004-06, Cambridge Centre for History & Economics and Robinson College
M. M. Postan Fellowship 2003-04 (awarded by the Institute of Historical Research and the (Economic History Society)
Ellen McArthur Studentship 2000, 2001, 2002
Earhart Fellowship 2001-02
Publications
Book
The Institutional Framework of Russian Serfdom (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Articles
“Agriculture” (with J. Simpson), in S. Broadberry and K. O’Rourke (eds), An Economic History of Modern Europe: Volume 1 1700-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
“Serfdom and Social Capital in Bohemia and Russia” (with Sheilagh Ogilvie), The Economic History Review 60(3), 2007, pp. 513-44.
“Did Serfdom Matter? Russian Rural Society, 1750-1860”, Historical Research, 79(203), 2006, 74-89.
“Servants and Labourers in a Serf Society: the Role of Service in Rural Russia, 1745-1825” in S. Pasleau and I. Schopp with R. Sarti (eds.), Proceedings of the Servant Project (Liège, 2006).
“Economy and Society in Rural Russia: The Serf Estate of Voshchazhnikovo 1750-1860” (Dissertation Summary), Journal of Economic History, 65(2), 2005, pp. 536-9.
“Household Structure and Family Economy on a Russian Serf Estate: Voshchazhnikovo 1816-1858” in T. Hämynen, J. Partanen, and Y. Shikalov (eds.), Family Life on the Northwestern Margins of Imperial Russia (Joensuu, Finland, 2004).
“The Invention of the Russian Rural Commune: Haxthausen and the Evidence” (with A. W. Carus) in The Historical Journal, 46(3), 2003, 561-82.
“Serfdom and Household Structure in Central Russia: Voshchazhnikovo 1816-1858” in Continuity and Change 18(3), 2003, 395-429.
Articles in Russian
“Krest’ianskie dvorokhoziaistva v imenii Voshchazhnikovo v 1816-1858 godakh” [“The peasant household economy on the estate of Voshchazhnikovo 1816-1858”], in Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo Universiteta. Seriia Istoriia 2(1), 2005, pp. 147-54.
“Muzhiki i peizane” [“Peasants and paysans”] in Neprikosnovennyi zapas, No 2 (22), 2002, pp. 126-131.
Reviews
L. Friesen, Rural Revolutions in Southern Ukraine: Peasants, Nobles, and Colonists 1774-1905 (Cambridge, MA, 2008). Reviewed in Journal of Economic History 69(4), 2009, pp. 1170-71.
C. Gaudin, Ruling Peasants: Village and State in Late Imperial Russia (De Kalb, IL, 2007). Reviewed in The Agricultural History Review 56(2), 2008, pp. 257-8.
Work in Progress
Papers Currently under Consideration
“Contract Enforcement in Russian Serf Society”
“Household Formation, Institutions, and Economic Development: Evidence from Imperial Russia”
Papers in Progress
“Institutions and the Russian Serf Economy: a Tale of Two Landlords”
“Micro-perspectives on Living Standards in Nineteenth-Century Russia” (with Steven Nafziger, Williams College)
“Apprenticeship in Russia under Serfdom: Evidence from Yaroslavl Province”
“Individualism Revisited: Family Forms in European Economic Development” (with Sheilagh Ogilvie)
“Migration and Mortality in the Russian Serf Population”
“Romanticizing Russian Peasants: the Curious Case of Alexander Herzen” (with A. W. Carus)
“Emancipating the Serfs in Eastern Europe: a Comparative Approach”
Conference Presentations
Higher School of Economics (HSE) Annual International Conference (Moscow) 2010
Economic History Society (Warwick) 2009
All UC Economic History Conference (Pasadena) 2008
Social Science History Association (Miami) 2008
Social Science History Association (Chicago) 2007
Economic History Society (Leicester) 2005
Institute for Historical Research (London) 2005
Economic History Association (San Jose) 2004
European Social Science History Association (Berlin) 2004
Conference of the European Project on Servants (Essex) 2003
Economic History Society (Birmingham) 2002
Invited Presentations
“Property Rights in Rural Russia 1750-1850”, presented at colloquium: “Property in Russia:
Concepts and Institutions”, at the New Economic School, Moscow, June 2011
“Family Forms and Economic Development: Evidence from Russian Serf Society”, presented to the
seminar of the Center for History and Economics, Harvard, March 2011
“Calculating Incomes in Russia 1700-1860: Methodological Considerations”, presented at a workshop
on ‘Quantifying Long-Run Growth’, Warwick in Venice, March 2011
“Household Formation, Institutions, and Economic Development: a Case Study from Imperial Russia”,
presented at workshop on ‘Marriage patterns, Household Formation, and Economic
Development’, University of Utrecht, October 2010
“Institutions and the Russian Serf Economy: A Tale of Two Landlords”, 2010 Epstein Memorial
Lecture, presented at the London School of Economics, February 2010
“Contract Enforcement in Russian Serf Society”, presented at the Economic History Workshop at Yale
University, October 2009
“Contract Enforcement in Russian Serf Society”, presented at the weekly research seminar at the New
Economic School in Moscow, April 2009
“The Icon and the Contract: Culture, Institutions and Economic Behavior in Imperial Russia”,
presented at the Economic and Business History Workshop, University of Western Ontario, 2008
“The Icon and the Contract: Culture versus Institutions in Imperial Russia”, presented to the Modern European History Seminar, University of Cambridge, 2008
“Labor Markets Under Serfdom: the Case of Imperial Russia”, presented to the Economic History Seminar, UC Davis, 2007
“Labor Markets Under Serfdom: the Case of Imperial Russia”, presented to the Von Gremp Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History at UCLA, 2006
“The Institutional Framework of Serfdom in Russia”, presented to the Economic History Seminar, University of Oxford, 2005
“Did Serfdom Matter? Evidence from Rural Russia”, presented at the seminar of the Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge, 2005.
“The Peasant World in Nineteenth-Century Russia”, presented to the Slavonic Studies Seminar, Cambridge, 2004
“Did Serfdom Matter? Evidence from Rural Russia”, presented at the Early Modern Europe Seminar
of the Institute for Historical Research, London, 2004
Teaching
European Agriculture/Peasantries since 1700
Russia in the Nineteenth Century
Soviet Russia
Stalinism
History of Europe since 1815
History of Early Modern Europe
Household and Family Forms in History
Perspectives on Russian History through Literature
Perspectives on German History through Literature
Problems in Historical Demography
Professional
Associate Editor (since 2008), Continuity and Change (Cambridge University Press)
Editorial Board, Historical Methods (Routledge)
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