2115 Francis Scott Key
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
phone: 301-405-0908
fax: 301-314-9399
Email: cpouncy@umd.edu

           Carolyn Pouncy specializes in pre-Petrine Russian history, specifically the culture and politics of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her edited and annotated The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible, won the Heldt Prize for Best Translation by a Woman in Slavic Studies in 1994. She has also published in Russian Review , Harvard Ukrainian Studies , Russian History/Histoire russe , and Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History . From 1985 to 1992, she was a Fellow at the Russian Research Center, now the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, at Harvard University and, from 1987 to 1989, managing editor of  Russian Review --then also run out of Harvard. She currently works as managing editor for Kritika, the editorial offices of which are located at the University of Maryland.

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