CHRISTY JEAN STORY, Ph.D.
email: chritsy_story@castilleja.org
EDUCATION
University of California,
Santa Cruz
¥ Ph.D. degree conferred June, 1998.
¥ M.A. degree conferred June, 1993.
MA thesis topic: "Terror, the Cheka, and the Bolsheviks during the
Russian Civil War."
University of St.
Petersburg, Russia
¥ CIEE program for language and pre-dissertation research, 1993.
Vassar College
¥ Bachelor of Arts Cum Laude May 1989 in International Studies, area of
concentration in East-West relations. Thesis Topic: ÒDefining the Roles of ÔPariahÕ Nations
in the International State System.Ó
Thesis awarded Distinction.
DISSERTATION: ÒIn a Court of Law: the
Revolutionary Tribunals in the Russian Civil War.Ó
Principal Advisor: Professor Peter Kenez, History Department, UCSC
My research examines the nature of the justice system
developed by the Bolsheviks. The
chapters cover both theoretical issues -- from the legal theories governing
revolutionary justice (Chapter Two) to the legacy of the French revolutionary
tradition for the tribunals (Chapter Three) -- as well as concrete
illustrations of the cases before the tribunals (Chapter Seven) plus the daily
workings of the tribunal as an administrative body (Chapter Five). The legacy of the tribunals continued
throughout Soviet history as they instituted the Bolshevik definition of
ÒpoliticalÓ criminal activity which would be utilized most memorably by Stalin
in the thirties.
RESEARCH
¥ Post-doctoral
Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley, 2001-2002
Mentor: Professor Robert Kagan, Center for Study of Law and Society, UC
Berkeley
Research focused on legal
theory and jurisprudence issues regarding justice and the relationship of law
to society building and expands my dissertation research in two key areas by
providing a new disciplinary framework of justice and the implications of the
tribunals within a legal framework, as well as grounding the tribunals with
additional research on revolutionary legal scholars in a longer tradition of
legal development growing out of the French revolution and the Napoleonic
codes.
¥ Associate,
Summer Research Laboratory, Russia and East European Center, University of
Illinois, 1997 and 1999
¥ Research at
Ts.G.A.M.O. (Central State Archive of Moscow Oblast), Moscow, October, 1997
¥ Fellow at Center for the Study of Russia and the Soviet Union, Moscow,
1994
¥ Research Assistant for Professor KenezÕs work on
Lunacharsky funded by the Center for German and European Studies, 1993
¥ Research Assistant for Professor UrbanÕs work on
post-Soviet governmental developments, 1992
TEACHING
Fields:
¥ Russian, Soviet History, and
Post-1991 Russia
¥ European History 1789 to the
present, World History, Chinese History: Qing dynasty - today
¥ Comparative Revolutions,
Totalitarianism, European Fascism and Nationalism
¥ Legal Studies/Jurisprudence,
Police and Terror
Experience:
Castilleja
School -
Teacher
2002-present: Economics, AP Macroeconomics, ÒCultures and
CivilizationsÓ (World History), International Relations,
2004: summer seminar: How to
Write a Business Plan
University
of California, Santa Cruz - Lecturer
1999-2000:
Lecturer in Russian history series,
medieval, imperial and Soviet.
University
of California, Santa Cruz - Teaching Assistant
Awarded Outstanding TA Award from History Board 1995
¥ History: Nineteenth Century European, Twentieth
Century European, Soviet, Imperial Russian, Early Russian, Rebel Movements in
China, Qing Dynasty
¥ Politics: Soviet and CIS
¥ Legal Studies
¥ Appointed Head TA over 5 other TAs and 1 reader for
History of the Holocaust. Was
responsible for preparing the exams, exam reviews, and paper assignments,
coordination and establishment of section curriculum as well as basic
administrative duties for a class of 300 students.
HONORS, GRANTS, AWARDS
¥ Nominated
for Supreme Court Judicial Fellows program, 1999-2000
¥ UCSC History
Board Outstanding TA award, 1995
¥ UC Regents Fellowship,
1991-1992
Dissertation Writing:
¥ Nominated
for UC Humanities Fellowship as candidate from Santa Cruz campus, 1997
¥ Graduate
Committee dissertation writing fellowship, 1997-1998
¥ Nominated
for NEH dissertation grant as candidate from Santa Cruz campus, 1996
Travel Grants:
¥ History Board travel grant for travel to Summer
Research Laboratory, Russia and
East European Center, University of Illinois, June-July, 1997 plus housing
grant from the Center
¥ History
Board dissertation grant for three months Russia, 1995
ADMINISTRATION, Castilleja
School, Palo Alto
¥ Internship program Coordinator, 2002-2005: place up to 25 students a
year with mentors in a wide variety of professional fields for job experience
and professional development.
¥ Career Day coordinator, 2002-2005: secure up too eight business sites
to host entire Sophomore class for day of professionalization and shadowing.
SERVICE, University
of California, Santa Cruz
¥ Organized the inaugural program for the History
DepartmentÕs colloquium series.
Secured monthly speakers and was responsible for all logistics.
¥ Appointed Graduate Student Association
representative for History Board graduate students, 1995-7
¥ Graduate Student representative to the GSHIP
(Graduate Student Health Insurance) committee, 1995-7
author, "GSHIP", The
Occasional Sluggishness, vol. 3, no. 3, (1996), p. 4.
"GSHIP
Update", The Occasional Sluggishness, vol. 4, no. 3, (1997), p. 4.
¥ History Graduate Committee student representative,
1993-1994
¥ Accreditation review board Humanities graduate
student representative, 1994
Community
Service
¥ Tutor, Los Lomita Elementary School, October
2001-2003
¥ Secretary, Ladera Community Association, July
1999-2002
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Conference
Papers
¥ÒComrade Jurist: Education and
Social Change under Bolshevik Revolutionary LawÓ delivered before the Pacific
Coast Branch of the AHA, San Jose, CA, 2004
¥ÒLiving with the Bolshevik Court System: SocietyÕs Transformation Under
the Revolutionary Tribunals,Ó delivered before the SSSA conference, Corpus
Christie, March 2004
¥ ÒLiving with the Bolshevik Court System: SocietyÕs
Transformation Under the Revolutionary
Tribunals,Ó delivered before WRMASS, Las Vegas, March 2003.
¥ ÒCall
that a Law? N. V. Krylenko and the Russian Revolutionary Tribunals,Ó delivered
before the WCSS (Western Conference of Slavic Studies), Reno, NV April 17, 2001.
¥ ÒIn
a Court of Law: Bolshevik Revolutionary Justice,Ó delivered before the SCSS
(Southern Conference of Slavic Studies), Richmond, VA March 25, 1999.
¥ ÒRevolutionary Law: the Structure of the
Revolutionary Tribunals within the Bolshevik System of Justice,Ó delivered
before the AAASS (American Association of Academics in Slavic Studies) National
Convention, Boca Raton, FL, September 26, 1998.
¥ ÒRadicalism in Petrograd: An Issue of Space,Ó
delivered before the Pacific Coast Branch AHA (American Historical
Association), San Diego, CA,
August 7, 1998.
¥ ÒRed Petrograd: People v. the State,Ó delivered before
the SSSAÕs (Southwestern Social Science Association) annual conference in
Corpus Christi, TX, March 21, 1998.
¥ ÒRevolutionary Justice and Bolshevik Consolidation of
Power,Ó delivered before Midwest Regional AAASS (American Association of
Academics in Slavic Studies), Columbus, OH, April 18, 1997
¥ ÒRed
Petrograd: Issues of Violence and Revolution in 1918,Ó delivered before
the INCSÕ (Interdisciplinary
Nineteenth Century Studies) conference, ÒThe Nineteenth Century City: Global
Contexts, Local Productions,Ó
April 8, 1995.
¥ Organizer with Professor Peter Kenez of conference:
"Weimar Germany and Russia Today;Ó Participant on ÒNationalismÓ panel
with Roman Laba and Professor Michael Urban, May 19, 1995.
Public
Lectures
¥ ÒJustice and the Russian Revolutionary Tribunals,
1917-1921,Ó Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley, February,
2002
¥ ÒThe Revolutionary Tribunals and the Constructions
of the Soviet Justice System,Ó History Department Colloquium Series, UCSC,
February, 1998.
¥ ÒOrthodoxy and Politics in early Russian
Nation-State,Ó UCSC, October, 1997
¥ ÒIcons and Kievan Culture,Ó UCSC, December, 1995
¥ ÒLibrary
and Archival Research in Russia and France,Ó for the History Board
Undergraduate Colloquium Series, December, 1995
¥ ÒCurrent Russian Nationalism and Its History,Ó UC
Politics Board, February, 1994
¥ ÒHoly Russia,Ó for the A.A.U.W. (American Association
of University Women), Palo Alto, December, 1993
Membership in Professional Associations
American Historical Association, American Association
of University Women, American Association of Women in Slavic Studies, Western
Association of Women Historians, Mid-West/Rocky Mountain Regional Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies