Christine Worobec

Christine D. Worobec (born 1955) is an American social and cultural historian. She is a Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Northern Illinois University,^[1] with pioneering interests in Russian and Ukrainian women's history, family history, and rural history.^[2]

Career

Worobec earned her BA (1977), MA (1978), and PhD (1984) degrees in history at the University of Toronto.^[2][3]

During 1984-1999 she was employed at Kent State University and she has worked at Northern Illinois University since 1999.^[3]

Worobec has collaborated on the reference work Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia: A Comprehensive Bibliography, and the edited essay collection Russia’s Women: Accommodation, Resistance, Transformation.^[4]

Her current research project examines Orthodox pilgrimages in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus since 1700.^[1]

Monographs

• Peasant Russia: Family and Community in Post-Emancipation Russia (1991)
• Possessed: Women, Witches, and Demons (2001)^[5]

Awards

• American Association for Ukrainian Studies' 2017 Article Prize^[1]
• 2017 ASEEES Distinguished Contributions Award^[2]
• 2008 AWSS Outstanding Achievement Award for her service as president, vice president, and board member of the AWSS^[2]
• Her 1991 and 2001 monographs won the Heldt Prize.^[1]