Graduate Directory
- Title
- PhD Candidate
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History of Consciousness Department
- Phone 650-283-1536
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, #430
- Mail Stop History Of Consciousness
Biography, Education and Training
NATALIA KOULINKA
University of California, Santa Cruz
History of Consciousness Department
Graduate Student Sept 2013 – Aug 2017
Ph.D Candidate Sept 2017
EDUCATION
MA, BA in Journalism (5 year program) June 1992
Belarus State University, School of Journalism, Minsk, Belarus
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Graduate Student
Professional Communication Certificate Program, Sept – Dec 2018
University of California, Santa Cruz
Teaching with Technology Graduate Certificate Program Jan – March 2019
University of California, Santa Cruz
Finalist of the UCSC Grad Slam Competition March 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TB0U4PuZMM&index=8&t=0s&list=PLuuzLoaK3RKWZVeKDdqC3DbK9UsRoy4YZ
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant Sep 2014 - current
Departments – History, Sociology, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness
University of California, Santa Cruz
Russian-language Editor Sept 2011 – June 2013
The Stanford Post-Soviet Post, online journal
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University
Visiting Scholar Jan 2010 – Aug 2011
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University
Journalism Instructor Sept 2001 – Sept 2008
Belarus State University, School of Journalism, Minsk, Belarus
Journalism Instructor May 2002 – Dec 2006
Regional Office of the United Nations Development Program,
Minsk, Belarus/Tashkent, Uzbekistan
HONORS and AWARDS
Gary Lease Summer Dissertation Fellowship 2018
Winner of Fulbright Scholarship 2008
Knight Fellowship for Professional Journalists, 2008-2009
Stanford University
Selected Publications
2014. Collection of interviews with Belarusian journalists about their work in the late 1980s and early 1990s (in Russian, co-authored). Vremia Nesbyvshikhsia Nadezhd: 17 interviu s Belorusskimi Zhurnalistami o 1990kh. Minsk: Lohvinau.
Selected Presentations
2018. Presentation, “A Portrait of the Workers against the Backdrop of the Soviet Union Falling Apart,” October 24-26, 18th Annual Aleksanteri Conference, Liberation-Freedom-Democracy? 1918-1968-2018, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
2017. Presentation, “One Step Forward Two Steps Back’: Change in the public perception of laborers and manual labor at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s in the USSR and independent Belarus,” November 2-4, Second European Labor History Network Conference, Paris, France.
2015. Presentation, “Labor and the Transformation of the early 1990s in Post-Soviet Belarus,” September 11-13, International Conference, Communist Nostalgia, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, the UK.
