Professor Heather Hogan

Photograph by Russell Kornblith

Heather Hogan teaches Russian history from the 10th century to the present. Her current interests focus on the study of Central Asia. She teaches a freshman seminar entitled “Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Central Asia” and an advanced colloquium entitled "Russia in Asia." Intermediate course offerings include Russia before Peter the Great and Russia/the Soviet Union since 1945. Her upper level courses focus on society and polity and explore such topics as the Russian intelligentsia and Stalinism. Her research interests include late imperial labor history and 19-20th Central Asia. She is author of Forging Revolution: Metalworkers, Managers, and the State in St. Petersburg, 1890-1914 (Indiana, 1993).

Office: Rice 313
Email: Heather.Hogan@oberlin.edu