Tatiana Saburova

Senior Lecturer, Department of History

Department of History

  • tsaburov@indiana.edu
  • Ballantine Hall 824
    1020 E Kirkwood Ave
    Bloomington, IN47405
  • Office Hours
    Th
    10:00a-11:00a
Campus
IU; IU Bloomington

Full Biography

Dr. Prof. Tatiana Saburova is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and a former Co-Director of the Russian Studies Workshop in Indiana University.  She was a Visiting Professor at Indiana University in 2015-2017 and Tompkins Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta 2017-18 academic year. 

Her first book (in Russian) was on the social and cultural representations of Russian intellectuals (Mythologies of the Russian Intellectual World: Socio-Cultural Representations of the Russian Intelligentsia in the Nineteenth Century, 2005). The second book (in Russian) Friendship, Family, Revolution: Nikolai Charushin and the Populist Generation of the 1870s, 2016) was co-authored with Ben Eklof (Indiana University) and published in Moscow in 2016, and its English language version A Generation of Revolutionaries. Nikolai Charushin and Russian Populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika was published by Indiana University Press in 2017.

Tatiana was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Indiana University (2011), DAAD visiting scholar at Freiburg University (2010), a visiting scholar at Tübingen University (2013) and Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich (2016).

She is a member of the Association of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, Association of Women in slavic Studies, and  and she is an editorial board member of “AvtobiografiЯ,” Journal of Life Writing and the Representation of the Self in Russian Culture (Padua University)

Her research deals with history of the late Russian empire, science and exploration of the borderlands, photography, cartography and visual representations of space, linking history, visual studies and Digital Humanities. 

Honors and Awards

Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities (IDAH), Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University, 2023-24 AY.

Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities (IDAH) Summer Incubator, Indiana University, August 2022.

Indiana University Summer Writing-Teaching grant, summer 2022.

2021 SHERA Publication Grant to support publication of co-edited volume Photographing Central Asia. From the Periphery of the Russian Empire to Global Presence. Edited by Svetlana Gorshenina, Sergey Abashin, Bruno De Cordier, and Tatiana Saburova. Berlin: De Gruyter 2022.

Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Faculty Research grant, 2021; Institute for Advanced Studies, Indiana University, Collaborative Research Award, 2021-23. Indiana University Mosaic Faculty Fellowship, 2020-21 AY

Indiana University Global Classroom Fellowship, 2020-21 AY Indiana University Trustees’ Teaching Award, 2020

Indiana U Study Abroad course development grant, Spring 2020

Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Course Development grant, Summer 2020

Indiana University Primary Sources Immersion Program Fellowship, Summer 2019

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, Visiting Scholar, Fall 2016 Tübingen University, Germany, Visiting Scholar, Fall 2013


University of Freiburg, Germany, Visiting Lecturer, Winter 2013

Fulbright Program, Indiana University, USA, Visiting Scholar, Spring 2011

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), University of Freiburg, Germany, Visiting Scholar, Fall 2010

Research Interests

Russian empire in the 19th -- early 20th century, exploration of the imperial borderlands, science, cartography and photography, Digital and Environmental Humanities, Siberian Studies.

Education

  • BA/MA, 1991.
  • PhD, 1996.
  • Doctorate, 2008.

Courses Taught

  • D103 The Making of Modern Russia
  • J300 Siberia: Russia's "Wild East"
  • D200 Daily Life in Russia
  • W315 Photographing History
  • D312 Histories of the Cold War
  • D308 Empire of the Tsars
  • D303 Heroes and Villains in Russian History
  • D320 Modern Ukraine
  • J400 Mapping History
  • X395 Cold War in Berlin (a study abroad tour)

Publications

Books:

 A Generation of Revolutionaries: Nikolai Charushin and Russian Populism from the Great Reforms to Perestroika (Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 2017), co-authored with Ben Eklof.

 Friendship, Family, Revolution: Nikolai Charushin and the Generation of Populists in Russia (Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2016). (co-authored with Ben Eklof, Indiana University).  [Дружба, семья, революция: Николай Чарушин и поколение народников 1870-х гг.  М.: Новое Литературное Обозрение, 2016 (в соавторстве с Бен Эклоф)]

Mythologies of the Russian Intellectual World: Socio-Cultural Representations of the Russian Intelligentsia in the Nineteenth Century (Omsk: Nauka, 2005), 315 pp.  [Русский интеллектуальный мир/миф. Социокультурные представления русской интеллигенции 19 века. Омск: Наука, 2005. 315 с.]

Siberian Society at the Turn of the 19th – 20th Century: Social Identity and Behavior Strategies, ed. Tatiana Saburova (Omsk, 2009), 242 pp. [Сибирское общество на рубеже 19-20 вв.: социальная идентичность и стратегии поведения. Под ред. Т.А. Сабуровой. Омск, 2009. 242 с.]

 Major Articles in English:

From Siberia to Turkestan: Semirechie in Writings and Photographs of Vasilii V. Sapozhnikov in Photography of Central Asia: From Periphery of the Russian Empire to Global Presence. Ed. Svetlana Gorshenina, Sergey Abashin, Bruno de Cordier, and Tatiana Saburova. Berlin: De Grueter, 2022, pp. 165-188.

‘University Elders’, Young Professors and Students. A Generational Approach to the History of Higher Education in Russia in the Late 19th Century in Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl and Oana Hergenröther (Eds.), Foreign Countries of Old Age. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2021, pp. 71-90.

‘Seeing like a Professor’ or Shifting Gears: University Temporality and the Pace of Transformation in Post-Soviet Russia, European Education, 2020, 52:3, 271-282.

Geographical Imagination, Anthropology, and Political Exiles Photographers of Siberia in Late Imperial Russia, Sibirica, Vol. 19, No. 1, Spring 2020: 57–84.

Family Photographs and Family of Photographers, in Love Letters from the Past: Courtship, Companionship, and Family in the Ukrainian Canadian Community. Edmonton: The Kule Folklore Center of the University of Alberta, 2019, pp. 27-42.

“‘Remembrances of the Distant Past’: Generational Memory and the Collective Auto/Biography of Russian Populists in the Revolutionary Era” (with Ben Eklof), Slavonic and East European Review, 2018, 96 (1), pp. 67-93.

  “In Pursuit of a Different Revolution:  Russian Populists of the Seventies Generation in 1917”, Slavic Review, Fall 2017, Vol. 76, #3, pp. 683-93, (co-authored with Ben Eklof)

 “The Napoleonic War of 1812 in the commemoration practice and historical memory of Russian society: from Imperial to contemporary Russia,” Russia and the Napoleonic Wars, ed. Janet M. Hartley, Paul Keenan, Dominic Lieven (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 243-57.

 “From Diaries to Blogs: Cultural and Political Networking in Russian Autobiographical Practice” (with Natalia Rodigina), The European Journal of Life Writing, Vol. 4, 2015. http://ejlw.eu/article/view/99/268

 “Century of Remembrances: The Patriotic War of 1812 in Russian Society’s Cultural Memory in the 19th-Early 20th Centuries,” in Memory and Mythology: Modern War and the Construction of Historical Memory, 1775-2000, ed. Natalia Starostina (Bethesda-Dublin-Palo Alto: Academica Press, 2013), pp. 81-104.

 “Changing Identity Formations in Nineteenth-Century Russian Intellectuals” (with Natalia Rodigina), in  Life Writing Matters in Europe, ed. Marijke Huisman, Anneke Ribberink, Monica Soeting, and Alfred Hornung  (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012, pp. 119-132. (with Natalia Rodigina)