Book length manuscript currently being considered by university presses. "The Nihilistic Imagination: Dmitrii Pisarev and the Cultural Origins of Russian Radicalism." Examines the life of nihilist literary critic Dmitrii Pisarev (1840-1868), one of the most prominent interpreters of the work Dostoevskii, Tolstoi and Turgenev, in order to better understand how their works were read by contemporaries and also to explore the close conection between literature and politics in the culturally tumultuous era which saw the rise to international prominence of both the Russian novel and the Russian revolutionary movement.

Forthcoming."Love, Science, and Politics in the fiction of Shestidesiatnitsy N.P. Suslova and S.V. Kovalevskaia," Russian Review, June 1999. (Special issue devoted to "The New Women's History")

"Science and the Shestidesiatniki": Midwest Russian History Colloquium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, 21 March 1997

"Smoke as 'Strange and Sinister Commentary on Fathers and Sons': Dostoevskii, Pisarev, and Turgenev on Nihilists and Their Representations," Russian Review, October 1995, pp.571-587

"Love, Science, and Politics in the fiction of Shestidesiatnitsy N.P. Suslova and S.V. Kovalevskaia," Conference paper, panel on "The Problem of Love in the work of Russian Women Writers of the Late-19th Century, AAASS Annual Convention, October 1995.

"The Anatomy of a Nihilist," Conference Paper, panel on 19th century literary criticism. American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (Slavic branch of the MLA), annual convention, December, 1992.

"D. I. Pisarev and the Politics of Identity," Conference Paper, panel on the problematics of cultural identity in Imperial Russia. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, annual convention, November, 1992.

"Nihilists, Novels, and the Formation of a Russian Radical Subculture," Presented at the J. Paul Getty Center for the History of Arts and the Humanities, Santa Monica, CA October 22, 1991.

"D. I. Pisarev in the Soviet Archives," Presented before the Department of the History of the USSR in the Pre-Soviet Period, Moscow State Historico-Archival Institute, June 1991.

"Russian Novels in the History Classroom," N.E.H.National Center for History in the Schools, Los Angeles, July 19 1990.

General A. N. Kuropatkin and the Imperial Russian Officer Corps," UCLA Historical Journal, Fall 1985.