Krista Goff

Krista Goff
Academic background
Education	Macalester College (BA) Brown University (MA) University of Michigan (Ph.D.)
Thesis	What Makes a People? Soviet Nationality Politics and Minority Experience After World War Two (2014)
Doctoral advisor	Douglas Northrop, Ronald Grigor Suny

Krista A. Goff is an American historian of Russia and the Soviet Union, who specializes in Soviet nationality politics and the history of the Caucasus in the 20th century.

Education

Goff received a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College and Master of Arts from Brown University. She then earned a Doctor of Philosophy in history from the University of Michigan.^[1] She also studied at universities in Saint Petersburg, Irkutsk and Baku.^[2]

Career

Since 2021, Goff has been a co-editor of Kritika journal.^[3] That same year, with Cornell University Press, she published Nested Nationalism, a work on non-titular nationalities and nationality policy in Soviet Azerbaijan.^[4][5]

As of 2024, she is an associate professor of history at the University of Miami. She is also the co-director of the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (REEES) program at Howard University.^[6]

Awards and honors

Nested Nationalism has received the Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies (2021),^[7] Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History (2021),^[8][9] Baker-Burton Award, and Biennial Best Book in Slavic Studies Award.^[10] In 2023, Goff won the Dan David Prize.^[10][11]

Publications

Articles

• Goff, Krista A. (January 2015). ""Why not love our language and our culture?" National rights and citizenship in Khrushchev's Soviet Union". Nationalities Papers. 43 (1): 27–44. doi:10.1080/00905992.2014.972351. ISSN 0090-5992.
• Goff, Krista (2022). "Postwar Rebuilding and Resettlements in the Soviet Union: A Case of Azeri Migration". Slavic Review. 81 (1): 97–121. doi:10.1017/slr.2022.86. ISSN 0037-6779.

Books

• Goff, Krista A.; Siegelbaum, Lewis H., eds. (2019). Empire and Belonging in the Eurasian Borderlands. Ithaca, NY London: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-3614-8.
• Goff, Krista A. (2020). Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus. Ithaca (N. Y.): Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-5017-5327-5.^[12]

Thesis

• Goff, Krista (2014). What Makes a People? Soviet Nationality Politics and Minority Experience After World War Two (Ph.D. thesis). University of Michigan. ProQuest 2794517437.

References

1. "Dr. Krista A. Goff, Nested Nationalism Book Event – The European History Workshop". University of Michigan. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
2. "Krista Goff". Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Harvard University. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
3. "Welcome to Krista Goff". Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. October 25, 2021. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
4. "Krista A. Goff, "Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus"". February 18, 2022. Archived from the original on May 22, 2023. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
5. Shakarian, Pietro A. (2021-10-27). "Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Caucasus, written by Krista A. Goff". The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review. 49 (1): 104–108. doi:10.30965/18763324-bja10046. ISSN 1876-3324. Archived from the original on 2022-12-05. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
6. "Krista Goff". University of Miami. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
7. "2021 Rothschild Prize". Association for the Study of Nationalities. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
8. "PAST WINNERS OF THE REGINALD ZELNIK BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY". Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Archived from the original on 2023-07-22. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
9. Goff, Krista (2021-12-16). "Dr. Krista Goff Honored with Rothschild Prize and Reginald Zelnik Book Prize for Nested Nationalism: Making and Unmaking Nations in the Soviet Union | Wilson Center". Wilson Center. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
10. "Krista Goff". Dan David Prize. 2023-02-28. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
11. del Campo, Deserae E. "Historian receives highly acclaimed Dan David Prize". University of Miami. Archived from the original on 2023-04-26. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
12. Goff, Krista A. (2020). Nested Nationalism. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501753282. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctvxbpfkn. Archived from the original on 2023-05-22. Retrieved 2023-06-21.