2022: Masha Kisel, Milestone Book Selection
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Year of Recognition
2022
Recognition
Promotion to the rank of Senior Lecturer, Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences.
Book Selection
Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
Recommended Citation
Kisel, Masha, "2022: Masha Kisel, Milestone Book Selection" (2022). Milestone Recognition Program. 116.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/svc_milestone/116
Why the honoree chose the book
Masha Gessen explains what lessons America can learn from Russia's rapid transition from a democracy to an authoritarian regime. The erosion of democratic norms in America has alarmed me from my dual perspectives as an immigrant from Soviet Ukraine and as a scholar studying Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet cultural history. Masha Gessen's brilliant work illuminated for me the importance of my area of expertise for American intellectual life, even as Slavic programs lose funding and disappear.