Bio
Susan Z. Rupp received her BA from Grinnell College, MA from Harvard University, and MA and PhD from Stanford University. She teaches Russian, East European, and Jewish history.
Background
Education
B.A. Grinnell College 1983
M.A. Harvard University 1985
M.A. Stanford University 1988
Ph.D. Stanford University 1992
Academic Appointments
Wake Forest University. Associate Professor 1999 – Present
Wake Forest University. Assistant Professor 1993 – 1999
Grinnell College. Visiting Assistant Professor 1992 – 1993
Administrative Appointments:
Wake Forest University. Chair of Department 2003 – 2004
Wake Forest University. Faculty Director of the Teaching and Learning Center 2010 – 2012
- FYS 100 World War II: Memory and Meaning This seminar is not designed to provide a comprehensive, general history of the Second World War, but instead focuses on the meaning imparted to the war by those who lived through it and subsequent generations. The course begins with a consideration of the war as experienced and recalled by contemporaries, including the distinctive experiences of soldiers in battle, those on the home front, and perpetrators and victims of the Holocaust. In the latter weeks of the semester, we will turn to an examination of some of the ways in which the war has been understood by writers over the past sixty years. These sources, taken together, may contribute to a more fundamental appreciation of the war’s contested meanings.
- HST 102 Europe and the World in the Modern Era This course provides a survey of European history in the modern era. Broad themes addressed in the course include the following: differing forms of government and the principles upon which they have been based; the role of ideas in influencing historical change; the impact of social structures and struggles on forms of political power; and the rights and powers of the individual and how these have been defined relative to the community and the state.
- Ed./tr. Alla Sevest’ianova, Peasant Marriage Custom According to the Birth Registries of Riazan’ and Viatka. Slavica, 2010.
- Ed./tr. V.N. Kozliakov, The Evolution of the Gentry in Russia in the 17th Century. Slavica, 2010.
- Ed. Everyday Life in Russian History: Quotidian Studies in Honor of Daniel Kaiser (Slavica, 2010).
- “A House Divided: Civil War Politics in Siberia, 1918,” in Politics and Society under the Bolsheviks, 1917-1945 (London: Macmillan Press, 1999).
- “The Struggle in the East: Opposition Politics in Siberia, 1918,” in Carl Beck Papers, number 1304 (1998).
- “Conflict and Crippled Compromise: Civil War Politics and the Ufa State Conference.” The Russian Review, April 1997.