Erica Fraser
| Degrees: | Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009), M.A., University of British Columbia (2000) |
| Email: | erica.fraser@carleton.ca |
Research Interests
Russian and Soviet history; gender and masculinity; Cold War culture; military cultures; masculinity in Soviet sports; daily life and the press in communist states.
Current Research Projects
Rearming Masculinity: Martial Brotherhoods and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union (book manuscript in preparation)
Real Men Play Hockey: Nordic Masculinity in Soviet Sports Culture (upcoming book project)
Selected Publications
“Soviet Masculinities and Revolution,” in Catherine Baker, ed, Gender in 20th-Century Eastern Europe and the USSR (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2016).
“Yuri Gagarin and Celebrity Masculinity in Soviet Culture,” in Philip E. Muehlenbeck, ed, Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, forthcoming 2016)
“Gender and Sexuality in Russian History: New Directions.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, Vol. 25, no. 2 (June 2015): 319-28.
“Masculinity in the Personal Narratives of Soviet Nuclear Physicists,” Aspasia, Vol. 8 (2014): 45-63.
Recent Grants
Global History of Sport in the Cold War workshop series, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C. (2015)