Laurie Bernstein, Associate Professor of History (B.A., Sonoma State College; M.A., Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley) is currently finishing her book on dependent children in the former Soviet Union. The recipient of post-doctoral awards from the National Endowment of Humanities, the National Council for Soviet and Eastern European Research, and the International Research and Exchanges Board, Bernstein was also honored by the Rutgers University Board of Trustees in 1997. She is the author of Sonia's Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia (Berkeley, 1995) and she has also published articles on Soviet adoption law, foster care during the Soviet era, and custody battles in Soviet Russia after the Second World War.

Dr. Bernstein teaches a range of courses, including Russian and Soviet History, Historical Methodology, Modern European history, European women's history, Introduction to Women's Studies, and the Women's Studies Senior Seminar. She is also a regular guest lecturer in the Introduction to Childhood and Childhood Studies core course.

Selected Publications

Books and Reports

Children of the Motherland: Orphans in Soviet Russia (monograph in progress)

Editor and co-author of introductory essay for Mary M. Leder, My Life in Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001).

"Russia's New Adoption Laws." July 1996 to the National Council for Soviet and East European Research.

Sonia's Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia. (Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1995).

Articles:

"Communist Custodial Contests: Adoption Rulings in the USSR after the Second World War" in Journal of Social History (Summer 2001): 843-861.

"Fostering the Next Generation of Socialists: Patronirovanie in the Fledgling Soviet State," in Journal of Family History XXVI, no. 1 (January 2001): 66-89.

Review essay on Anne E. Gorsuch, Youth in Revolutionary Russia: Enthusiasts, Bohemians, Delinquents (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2000) and
Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Small Comrades: Revolutionizing Childhood in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932 (New York: Routledge Falmer, 2001), in History of Education Quarterly v. 43, no. 1 (Spring 2003): 106-111.

"The Evolution of Soviet Adoption Law," in Journal of Family History XXII, no. 1 (January 1997): 204-226.

"'A Necessary Institution in the Capitalist World': Socialists and Workers Consider Prostitution," in Russian History/Histoire Russe XXIII, nos. 1-4 (1996): 179-196.

"Yellow Tickets and State-Licensed Brothels: The Tsarist Government and the Regulation of Urban Prostitution," in Health and Society in Revolutionary Russia, edited by Susan Gross Solomon and John F. Hutchinson (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 45-65.

Faculty fellow at the Center for Russian, Central and East European Studies and the Women's Studies Program at Rutgers University for the seminar, "Locations of Gender: Central and Eastern Europe." September 1996 through May 1997.

Full year of support and travel from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Individual Advanced Research Opportunity in Eurasia. (Accepted for summer 1996 in Moscow only). September 1995 through August 1996.

Full year of support from the National Council for Soviet and East European Research to complete research for project on dependent children in Soviet Russia. July 1995 through June 1996.

Alternate for a Woodrow Wilson Foundation fellowship at the Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C. September 1995 - June 1996.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend with Travel for research in St Petersburg. May through July 1995.

Rutgers University Research Council grant for subvention of publication. September 1993 through June 1994.

Joint Committee on Soviet Studies (Social Science Research Council and American Council of Learned Societies) post-doctoral fellowship for three summers and one semester to complete manuscript on prostitution in imperial Russia. June 1989 through August 1991.

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) short-term fellowship for conducting research in the Lenin Library, Moscow. June 1989.