MAYA HABER

2007 to present -PhD Candidate UCLA European history

2000 - 2006 - School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London;

1997 - 2000 - Modern European History, Tel Aviv University, Israel;

1994 - 1997 - History and Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail: haberm@ucla.edu

Field

Russia, Science, agrarian history, European cultural and Intellectual history and Critical Theory

Research Interests

Dissertation Title: Socialist Realist Science: Constructing Knowledge about Soviet Rural Life, 1945-1958. My project examines the interaction between social scientists and collective farmers in the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1958. It investigates the knowledge produced about collective farms as a product of two distinct cultures: a scientific urban and a peasant rural culture. The project sheds light on the social sciences as a profession, their interactions, research and methodology of rural life, and the social and cultural world of Soviet collective farmers.

Grants and Awards

Fulbright Hays - Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad, 2009

UCLA Departmental Fellowship, 2007-2012 - Awarded by the Department of History

College’s studentship, 2002-2004 - Awarded by Birkbeck College

AVI Fellowship, 2002

ORS Award Scheme, 2001-2004 - Awarded by Universities UK to international research students

Excellence Scholarship, 2000 - Awarded by Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Humanities

Advisors

J. Arch Getty
Theodore Porter
Stephen Frank
Martha Lampland

Conference Presentations

AAASS 2007, New Orleans LA – participated in a panel ‘Potemkinism: Fact and Fiction

AAASS 2006, Washington DC – participated in a panel ‘What is soviet?'

Relaunching the Soviet Project, London, 2006 - Studying a Potemkin kolkhoz: soviet social scientists in a search for the kolkhoznik of the future, 1945-1958

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