{"id":757,"date":"2019-09-09T16:33:26","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T16:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-history\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=757"},"modified":"2025-02-19T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:27:30","slug":"maria-fedorova","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/history\/facultystaff\/maria-fedorova\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria Fedorova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Fedorova arrived at Macalester in the fall of 2019 as a Wallin Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian and Modern European History. A Moscow native, she came to the United States as a Fulbright Fellow, receiving an MA degree in History at Washington State University and a Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fedorova&#8217;s research focuses on the transnational circulation of knowledge and technologies between Russia\/Soviet Union and the world during the twentieth century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her first book <em>Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in Agriculture, 1921-1935<\/em> (forthcoming in August 2025 with the Northern Illinois University Press) focuses on the American and Soviet exchange of agricultural knowledge and technology during the interwar period. Amid the post\u2013World War I food insecurity, Soviet and American agricultural experts relied on transnational networks, bridging ideological differences. As Soviets traveled across the US agricultural regions and Americans plowed steppes in the southern Urals and the lower Volga, both groups believed that innovative solutions could be found beyond their own national borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fedorova teaches courses on Russian and Soviet history, the transnational history of food and agriculture, and the history of science and technology. Her courses are cross-listed with the History Department and the Food, Agriculture, and Society concentration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Publications:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Seeds of Exchange: Soviets, Americans, and Cooperation in<br>Agriculture, 1921-1935<\/em> (Northern Illinois University Press,<br>forthcoming in August 2025).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cMapping Food \u2013 Teaching Global Connections,\u201d <em>Agricultural<br>History 97<\/em>, no. 4 (November 2023): 673-676.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cBread or Iron? Competing Visions of American Aid to Soviet<br>Russia, 1921-1923,\u201d <em>Agricultural History 97<\/em>, no. 2 (May 2023):<br>245-272.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Untold Story of \u201cRadical Relief\u201d to Soviet Russia,<\/span>\u201d NYU<br>Jordan Center Blog, March 28, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cAmerican Tractors, Soviet Soil: Agricultural Reconstruction<br>and U.S.-Soviet Technology Transfer, 1921-23,\u201d in Anthony J.<br>Heywood, Scott W. Palmer, and Julia A. Lajus, eds., Science,<br>Technology, Environment, and Medicine in Russia\u2019s Great War<br>and Revolution, 1914-1922 (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2022):<br>203-228.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Translation<\/em>: Evgenii O. Naumov, \u201cThe Red Army and<br>Epidemic Disease in the Russian Civil War,\u201d trans. by Maria<br>Fedorova in Anthony J. Heywood, Scott W. Palmer, and Julia<br>A. Lajus, eds., Science, Technology, Environment, and<br>Medicine in Russia\u2019s Great War and Revolution, 1914-1922<br>(Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2022): 471-494.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cSeeds as Technology: The Russian Agricultural Bureau in New<br>York and Soviet Agricultural Modernization, 1921-26,\u201d Russian<br>Review 80, no. 2 (April 2021): 209-228.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":763,"template":"","class_list":["post-757","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2237,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/757\/revisions\/2237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}