Tricia A. Starks
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Distinguished Professor and Director of the Arkansas Humanities Center
Also affiliated: Cornell University (2022); The Ohio State University (1994–2000)
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Tricia A. Starks is a Professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where she directs the University of Arkansas Humanities Center. In her role as director, Starks has secured over half a million dollars in grants to support research and public programming, and she also manages the distribution of faculty research grants and assists with proposal development.
Her scholarly work focuses on the intersection of culture and public health within Russian and Soviet contexts. Starks' research has explored the integration of hygienic practices and revolutionary ideals in Soviet daily life, the cultural significance of smoking in Russia and the Soviet Union, and anxieties surrounding male health and vigor during the Soviet period and into the present day. Her publication record includes works such as "Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State" (2008), "Smoking under the Tsars: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia" (2018), and "Red Star/Black Lungs: Anti-Tobacco Campaigns in Twentieth-Century Russia" (2006).
Starks has received funding for her research, including a $50,000 grant from the NIH/National Library of Medicine for her project "Save the Men! Russian Male Health in Crisis from the Revolution to Today." She is recognized as a federal grant principal investigator and maintains an active lab website. Her scholarship metrics include an h-index of 5, with 66 total publications and 114 total citations.
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- h-index: 5
- Publications: 82
- Citations: 115
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Distinguished Professor and Director of the Arkansas Humanities Center 2023–presentUniversity of Arkansas Department of History ORCID
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Professor 2000–presentUniversity of Arkansas History ORCID
Selected Publications
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Anna Mazanik, <i>Sanitizing Moscow: Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia</i> (2026)
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The Broken Years: Russia’s Disabled War Veterans, 1904–1921 , by Alexander Sumpf (2023)
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Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia. By Tatiana Chudakova. New York: Fordham University Press, 2021. x, 346 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Photographs. $32.00, paper; $31.99 e-book. (2023)
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Mie Nakachi. <i>Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union</i>. (2023)
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Tobacco Product Design, Marketing, and Smoking in the USSR (2023)
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Nan Enstad, <i>Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Capitalism</i>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. (2020)
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Book Reviews (2019)
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Claire L. Shaw. Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917–1991 (2019)
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The Right to be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order. Maria Cristina Galmarini-Kabala. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2016. xiii, 301 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Glossary. Index. Figures. Tables. $35.00, paper. (2018)
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A Revolutionary Attack on Tobacco: Bolshevik Antismoking Campaigns in the 1920s (2017)
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Propagandizing the Healthy, Bolshevik Life in the Early USSR (2017)
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1917: Code of Revolution (2017)
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Paula A. Michaels. Lamaze: An International History. (2015)
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A Martian Stranded on Earth: Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science (2014)
Federal Grants 1 $50,000 total
Save the Men! Russian Male Health in Crisis from the Revolution to Today
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