History Faculty
Dr. Kate Transchel
Russia and Eastern Europe
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1996
Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Office Phone: 530-898-6417
e-mail: ktranschel@csuchico.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Transchel's current research focuses on sex, gender, and alcohol as forces creating an alternative culture in Leonid Brezhnev's Russia. She also is investigating the sex slave trade in Eastern Europe after World War II. Transchel is working with another Russian scholar in developing web-based modules to accompany history textbooks for classroom use in the teaching of Russian History.
Publications
Dr. Transchel is the author of Under the Influence: Working-class Drinking, Temperance, and Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1895-1932 ( University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006). She also has written The Breakup of Yugoslavia: Conflict in the Balkans (Chelsea House, 2006). Her articles have appeared in The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, The Spirit, Saratovskie vesti, and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Newsletter. In addition to book chapters in three scholarly anthologies and ten encyclopedia entries, Transchel has published book reviews in the Russian Review, Canadian American Slavic Studies, Slavic Review, Labor History, American Slavic Studies, and Europe-Asia Studies.
Honors and Awards
Professor Transchel is the recipient of a Lantis Endowment Professorship for 2008-2009, receiving an award of $40,000 to implement her proposal to investigate the East European sex slave trade. She was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend in 1997 and has received numerous grants to support her research, notably in 1999 from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research.
Courses Taught
HIST 103: The Modern World
HIST 326: Modern European Women’s History
HIST 420: Modern Russian History
HIST 421: Russian and Soviet History
HIST 422: Balkan History
HIST 620: Graduate Seminar in European History
If you have any questions about the Department of History and its academic programs, please do not hesitate to call at (530) 898-5366.