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Dr Dina Fainberg

Senior Lecturer

School of Arts and Social Sciences Department of International Politics

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Dr Dina Fainberg A229F, College Building
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

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About

Overview

Dina Fainberg is a Lecturer in Modern History and the Director of History BA at the Department of International Politics. Dina's research focuses on modern Russian history, with a particular emphasis on Cold War culture, mass media and propaganda, late socialism, and Russia's relationship with the world.

Dina has earned her PhD in Modern Russian and Modern US History from Rutgers University. She held research fellowships at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, the Center for the United States and the Cold War at New York University, and the Research Center for East European Studies at the University of Bremen. From 2013 to 2016 Dina was Assistant Professor of East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Dina's research was published in Cold War History, Journalism History and multiple edited volumes. Together with Artemy M. Kalinovsky she is the editor of Reconsidering Stagnation: Ideology and Exchange in the Brezhnev Era (Lexington Books, 2016). Her most recent book, Cold War Correspondents: Soviet and American Reporters on the ideological Frontlines, 1945-1991 was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2021.

Qualifications

  1. PhD History, Rutgers University, United States
  2. BA (Hons), History, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Employment

  1. Programme Director, BA History, City, University of London, Jan 2017 – present
  2. Lecturer in Modern History, City, University of London, Jan 2017 – present
  3. Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Sep 2013 – Dec 2016
  4. Minerva Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bremen, Bremen, Jan – Dec 2013
  5. Postdoctoral Research Fellow, New York University, New York, Sep – Dec 2012
  6. Mellon Doctoral Fellow, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Sep – Aug 2012
  7. Lecturer, Rutgers University, Newark, Sep – Dec 2010

Languages

Dutch; Flemish (can read), Hebrew (can peer review) and Russian (can peer review).

Expertise

Geographic Areas

  • Americas - North
  • Europe
  • Russia

Publications

Publications by category

Books (3)

  1. Fainberg, D. (2021). Cold War Correspondents Soviet and American Reporters on the Ideological Frontlines. JHU Press. ISBN 978-1-4214-3845-0.
  2. Fainberg, D. and Kalinovsky, A.M. (2016). Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era Ideology and Exchange. Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-2994-5.
  3. Hellbeck, J., Lotareva, D., Markova, S. and Fainberg, D. (2015). Сталинградская битва: cвидетельства участников и очевидцев. Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie. ISBN 978-5-4448-0264-9.

Chapters (5)

  1. Fainberg, D. and Kalinovsky, A.M. (2016). Introduction: Stagnation and its Discontents. Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era Ideology and Exchange Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-4985-2994-5.
  2. Fainberg, D. (2013). To America in Search of a Socialist Soul: Soviet Foreign Correspondents in the U.S. In Mikhailov, N. and Hellbeck, J. (Eds.), Человек и личность в истории России конец XIX - XX век (pp. 369–385). ISBN 978-5-4469-0001-5.
  3. Fainberg, D. (2012). Ordinary Russians and Average Americans: How Cold War Foreign Correspondents Constructed ‘Regular People’ on the Other Side of the Iron Curtain. In Stolberg, E.M., (Ed.), The Soviet Union and the United States Rivals of the Twentieth Century (pp. 115–137). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. ISBN 978-3-631-62510-1.
  4. Fainberg, D. (2010). The Heirs of the Future: Foreign Correspondents Meeting Youth on the Other Side of the Iron Curtain. Winter Kept Us Warm Cold War Interactions Reconsidered (pp. 126–136). ISBN 978-952-10-6564-4.
  5. Fainberg, D. (2007). Writing Moscow: Memoirs of American Journalists Who Covered the Soviet Union during the 1970s and the 1980s. Российско-американские отношения в прошлом и настоящем образы, мифы и реальность : материалы международной конференции, посвященной 200-летию установления дипломатических отношений между Россией и США, РГГУ (Москва), 21-22 февраля 2007 г (pp. 346–356). ISBN 978-5-7281-0974-7.

Journal articles (3)

  1. Fainberg, D. (2015). A Portrait of a Journalist as a Cold War Expert. Journalism history, 41(3), pp. 153–164.
  2. Fainberg, D. (2015). Unmasking the wolf in sheep's clothing: Soviet and American campaigns against the enemy's journalists, 1946–1953. Cold War History, 15(2), pp. 155–178. doi:10.1080/14682745.2014.978762.
  3. Fainberg, D. (2013). Stephen Lovell, The Shadow of War: Russia and the USSR, 1941 to Present. Journal of Contemporary History, 48(1), pp. 221–222. doi:10.1177/0022009412461777i.