Diane P. Koenker is Professor of History, with interests in modern Russian and Soviet history.Curriculum Vitae Diane P. Koenker
She earned A.B. in History, Grinnell College, 1969, A.M. in Comparative Studies in History, University of Michigan, 1971, and Ph.D. in History, University of Michigan, 1976
While at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign she chaired the Department of History (2011-2015) and directed the Russian and East European Center (1990-1996). In 2018 she was appointed at University College London as Director of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
Books authored 2013: Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream, Ithaca, Cornell University Press 2005: Republic of Labor:' Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930, Ithaca, Cornell University Press 1989: Strikes and Revolution in Russia, 1917 (with William G. Rosenberg), Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press 1981: Moscow Workers and the 1917 Revolution, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press In addition to the authored books, she was an editor and co-editor of several books and an author of many articles.
Honors 2018: ASEEES Distinguished Contributions Award.2018 CITATION RECIPIENT / Diane P. Koenker Outstanding Achievement Award, Association for Women in Slavic Studies, 2014 2006: Guggenheim Fellow Chester Higby Prize of the Modern European Section of the American Historical Association, for best article in preceding two years in Journal of Modern History, 2003 Arnold O. Beckman Research Board Award, 1990-91, 2002-2003, 2012-13
References
Further reading Interview with Diane Koenker, Slavica Publishers Volume 24, Number 4, Fall 2023 pp. 699-720