Tricia Starks Data-verified

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Last publication 2023 Last refreshed 2026-05-22

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5 h-index 65 pubs 113 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Tricia Starks, a professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, directs the University of Arkansas Humanities Center. In this role, she has secured and managed over $500,000 in grants for research and public programming, in addition to overseeing internal faculty research grants and proposal development.

Starks' research examines the intersection of culture and public health within Russian and Soviet contexts. Her scholarly work includes a book exploring the integration of hygienic and revolutionary concepts in 1920s Soviet daily life. Further publications have addressed the social and cultural significance of smoking in Russia and the Soviet Union. Her current research focuses on anxieties surrounding male health and vitality across the Soviet period and into the present day. She is a Principal Investigator on a $50,000 NIH/National Library of Medicine grant for her project, "Save the Men! Russian Male Health in Crisis from the Revolution to Today."

Starks' scholarship is quantified by an h-index of 5, with 65 total publications and 112 citations. Her recent publications include "Tobacco Product Design, Marketing, and Smoking in the USSR" (2023) and "A Revolutionary Attack on Tobacco: Bolshevik Antismoking Campaigns in the 1920s" (2022).

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  • h-index: 5
  • Publications: 65
  • Citations: 113

Selected Publications

  • The Broken Years: Russia’s Disabled War Veterans, 1904–1921 , by Alexander Sumpf (2023)
  • 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)
  • Mie Nakachi. <i>Replacing the Dead: The Politics of Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union</i>. (2023)
  • Tobacco Product Design, Marketing, and Smoking in the USSR (2023)
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Federal Grants 1 $50,000 total

NIH/National Library of Medicine Contact PI Feb 2024 - Jan 2026

Save the Men! Russian Male Health in Crisis from the Revolution to Today

National Library of Medicine $50,000 G13

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