Maria Galmarini
Associate Professor, History and Global Studies
Office:
Blair 350
Email:
[[mgalmarinikaba]]
Regional Areas of Research:
Russia and Modern Europe
Thematic Areas of Research:
Social History, Gender, Disability Studies, Transnational
Bio
Maria Galmarini received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2012. Her teaching interests include Russian and post-Soviet History, Stalinism, human rights, and cultural history of the Cold War. She specializes in Soviet and modern European history, with a particular focus on the history of disability and social rights. Her recent book is Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War. She also is the author of The Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order, published in 2017 by Northern Illinois University Press. It explores the sense of entitlement to social rights among marginalized groups in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1950.
